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    SUSS Swaledale 2025 expedition report

    I have a feeling a big rockfall buried Stone Root Cave, which was somewhere we had intended to go back to. Can’t remember much except that it was quite tight and crawly and around 30m long…. Maybe it never got surveyed. Took its name from a fossil at the entrance.
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    SUSS Swaledale 2025 expedition report

    Botched Gill goes to a rising in the lower gorge at Swinnergill, below Stone Root Cave. I put an excessive amount of fluorescein through it in 1973 and turned Swinnergill very green indeed.
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    SUSS Swaledale 2025 expedition report

    There should be a dug out entrance, maybe under a slab, and around 300m of passage, low and wet in places but some good formations as well. All after my time….
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    SUSS Swaledale 2025 expedition report

    Good reading and very professional production....I have distant memories of New Level Mine Cave, and the first encounter with the draught in Draughting Hole. I don't know whether you are all aware there is a quite big and hard-won cave at the Snowden Gill Rising just above the Oxnop Road, all...
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    Exploration of Nidderdale Caves Book

    Mine has now arrived, many thanks, v informative but pity about the scale of the surveys, a bit beyond my failing eyesight. Any idea what happened to the YURT survey Martin Davies showed me long ago? Around 1970 Martin took me into Goyden and we found, I think, Drum Rift, which turned out to be...
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    Exploration of Nidderdale Caves Book

    I would like a copy but it will have to be by post
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    Ceramic grave markers

    I saw a few of these in Tynedale. One at least in Hayden Bridge cemetery (I think) was stamped as a product of the Langley Sanitary Pipe Clay works. As well as grave markers they specialised in ceramic urinals, and made half-scale versions to advertise the product, which I was told were sent...
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    Redhouse Lane Swallet Update

    I think it is the sense of openness and willingness to share such a major find as it happens that is so remarkable, and I really hope it does not backfire in anyway. Completely contrary to some traditional caving attitudes. I recall a phone call some years ago from a guy who introduced himself...
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    Redhouse Lane Swallet Update

    Just to say you have no idea how happy your reports and videos are making one geriatric caver up here in rain-sodden Fife, the stuff of fantasies….thank you Peter Ryder
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    Tickets for Northern Explorers forum 2023 go on sale on 10th March

    Would love to come, but logistics - the fact we now live so far north, geriatricity and debility- make it I fear a bridge too far. Frustrating when at least two of the talks deal with holes we dug at half a century ago, which have now yielded spectacular finds (Draughting Hole and the NYM...
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    Breakthrough in Fairy Holes (Weardale)

    Excellent news, avidly followed from my distant armchair. Grateful that I did manage one trip half way into Fairy..... Hope you emerge from the wet sink at Wolfcleugh, on the west of the stream, which I don't think anyone has really had a go at. It looked grim but possible for the small and...
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    Hareshaw linn. Cave?

    Went in this a few years ago before it was gated. It is an old mine (maybe for iron ore). Got in 60m or so and it got very low and wet, but memory a bit hazy
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    Aquamole Pot - some nice video footage of the 40 metre pitch

    The things a geriatric caver can now enjoy from the comfort of his chair.... well done :clap2:
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    I want to be a Hermit

    A trip to Lacy Caves are situated on the east bank of the River Eden,  an easy mile or so of walk south from Dunraven Bridge, where the Glassonby to Kirkoswald road come close to the river. It is all a bit like a municipal park ? boards with non-slip wire mesh crossing boggy bits, substantial...
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