Similar point to the 'when to retire kit' thread below.  This came up as a friend is wanting to buy an srt kit. He is buying the harness etc new but we were discussing the safety issues surrounding buying metalwork  - jammers, krabs, stop, secondhand and wondered if there was a general...

Hello all, I have a family camping/caravanning weekend in August in Derbyshire, camping in the Hope valley site.  My friends kids would like to go down a 'real' cave as they are really into caves at the moment  - something to do with a kids  TV character who lives in a cave.  Can anyone...

Hi, Just wondered if anyone had any idea why petzl zooms went for so much on ebay?  I would have thought that everyone would have moved over to LED headtorches and you would be better putting your tenner towards something modern.  Am I missing something??  Terry

Once a year, a group of us old friends has a reunion, usually a weekend away with some sort of outdoor activity followed by pub meal and beers.  In the past we've done coasteering, abseling, mtb and gill scrambling.  Just returned from this years knees up in and find myself in the posiition of...

8pm ITV 1, Countrywise. The Yorkshire Dales are known as the TV setting of Emmerdale and perhaps Britain's best known farming landscape. But the Dales have their own dramatic tales to tell. Bettany Hughes reveals the 800 years of history hidden in dry stone walls, and Paul Heiney turns...

Hi all, Am heading up to Derbyshire in a few weekends time and wondered if there was an equivalent to Hunters, Bernies cafe, Helwith etc in the Peak District.  This is a family trip to Chatsworth etc so no caving unless I can persuade them on a tourist trip down peak cavern, but would like to...

OK, so my caving is irregular, about 10 weekends a year, although I keep fit with cycling to and from work. I have a Yorkshire dales weekend booked for May spring bank holiday, but due to work commitments I am having to spend the next 2 months staying in a hotel in Potters bar.  Weekend will be...

Does anyone know what this is? I was walking round there the other week and the non ruined part looks like a bunkhouse from a peer through the windows?  Google isnt coming up with anything, so it possibly isnt called southerscales farm.  the place I mean - take the stile opposite the...

Hello all, New to this forum though have been lurking for a while. I've been caving a couple of years.  Done horizontal stuff in mendip and wales but have started srt and ventured to Yorkshire a few times.  One of the caves on my 'to do' list is notts pot and I like to read around the caves...