Here are the long-awaited quiz answers! 1. We passed quickly into clear water and travelled over beautiful smooth sand, passing a great fallen block with an eyehole right through it, then downhill, like trudging over a snowfield, until suddenly we halted in our tracks. Below and to the right...

Here's our quiz for the caving-history minded among you. We aren't going to mark it or anything like that, but we'll post the answers sometime in the New Year. A clue - 4 are fiction, and the others are from caving books, club journals, and one blog from a caver who has left us.

Starless River shop is in South Wales this weekend (not Mendip as we mistakenly said in Descent). Mendip is NEXT weekend. Sorry guys!

Just a note for visitors, access to this fine stream cave is **only** to be had after telephoning the farmer. He's lovely if you follow this procedure, and known for being a bit grumpy if you don't. Talk to a local caver to get the number, it's not secret but not actually publicised (this is a...

The line between Yorrurt Revisited and the base of The Shaft is lined with blue polypro and is pretty belay free. By nature of the context, any visitors to this area are likely to be fairly strong-minded; but it's not reassuring for anyone, and forewarned is forearmed.

Those making the Lancs - WRabbit traverse via the streamway will probably know the climb up into the higher levels at the very downstream end of the Oxbow Corner boulder pile (rope up on left when facing upstream). Last week it was blocked, about fifteen feet up, by a significantly large...

Just a last ditch attempt... Is there anyone in The Dales or thereabouts who is going to Matienzo in the next couple of days... i.e. someone who hasn't headed out *yet*? Thanks for any help - Tony

The mobile shop will be at Penwyllt on Mayday weekend - friday night to monday morning this time. If there's anything in particular you fancy, give us a call (such as climbing ropes, rigging tat, via ferrata gear for the summer hols and suchlike), and I'll bung it in with the normal kit...

Anyone who wants to go shopping for the various goodies on offer - I'll be down on The Hill from Friday until Sunday. Saying which, I want to go caving Friday daytime; and I'll be at Wookey for the launch of the excellent book in the evening! But call me if you want anything special bringing...

If anyone wants to have a look around the shop this Saturday, I'll be down at the Orpheus hut for the first part of the day, then swinging past Castleton in the late afternoon / early evening. Mail, or call, if you want to arrange a look at something in particular; that way I can make sure that...

Have finally got my arse in gear and updated the calendar, so you can find where the shop will be between now and Hidden Earth. So if you want to know where to check out the shiny, shiny kit, go to the website and then the calendar section; the few empty weekends are normally there for me to...

If you didn't manage to get to Hidden Earth (bad luck)...but want to see what all the fuss with this new light is about - there will be a few of these rather bright items over at the Orpheus this coming Saturday. If you're an Orpheus member, and are interested, then you may be in luck. But in...

Should anyone wish to have look at the new AV oversuits, or the MTDE undersuits, or indeed any number of shiny bits of nice kit - then the shop will be on the road and in the area of BPF on Saturday between about 09.00 and 17.00. Cash or cheque only, I'm afraid - no internet / mobile access for...

I've heard that it's happening... But where? And when? Waiting with breath bated...

If you want to check out any of the new kit, or even just prove to yourself that pontonnierres really do exist, come and say hello tomorrow. The shop will be outside the YSS between c.09.30 and 17.30. Best to park in the pub car park (unless you're YSS, of course!) so that club members aren't...