dear Cavers, I need to get a new sleeping bag for this year's tour in the Alps, where it is nice and clammy in the camps - 1C, 99% humidity, the usual. Last year and those before I had a down bag rated at -9C, and slept in the undersuit to get it dry. Thing is, by the fifth night I could feel...

We had a discussion the other day about whether to buy thinner ropes for some activities. It is lighter, stretches less than 10mm and there's even that modern Unicore thing - I really like comparisons where the old thing suffers catastrophically - and seems to fit the requirements just as well...

Cavers across the Channel (and others), I'm shopping around for an undersuit. I've got a MTDE coolmax rag, a very hot and chaffing Meander furry, and since I still sweat a couple of liters even in Jura caves, I decided I needed that something in between. There are some cool Meander...