• Descent 302 is published on 15 February and it will soon be on its way to our subscribers.

    In the newsdesk, read a review of the underground events at Kendal Mountain Festival, plus tales of cannibalism and the Cavefish Asteroid.

    In regional news, we have three new connections in Ogof Agen Allwedd, a report on the iron mines of Anjou, an extension to Big Sink Cave in the Forest of Dean, a new dig in Yorkshire's Marble Steps Pot, student parties, an obituary for Tony Boycott, a tight find in the Peak District and a discovery in County Kerry with extensive formations.

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    Age of Forum Users

    Ha! My vote got the next tier down up to parity with the 60+ 
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    Draughting hole near Pwll Du, Blaenafon

    Many thanks everyone for your informative replies. Siambr ddu sounds a geologically intriguing cave despite its short size.
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    Draughting hole near Pwll Du, Blaenafon

    Early this morning I was doing some tramroad and quarry photography in the frost and saw distinct near-continuous wisps of warm air vapour rising from a small cave entrance at NGR SO 2506 / 1150. This a prominent entrance about five feet wide and three feet high on the side of the tramroad at...
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    Welsh Wezzit

    Entrance to Indiana Highway?
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    Quotes....

    http://freakonomics.com/2008/04/17/our-daily-bleg-did-ibm-really-see-a-world-market-for-about-five-computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_motto
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    Ignorance of the law is no defence, right?

    SAM boundaries are defined by an appended OS map extract (usually the largest available scale) with a boundary line drawn on it.
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    Quotes....

    There is more than one road French junction signed that way!
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    Cave Hunting by Dawkins

    There are two first (1874) eds on abebooks at ?50 each, and half a dozen in the ?100 to ?300 range - it'll be interesting to see what level the ebay one rises to. There's also a 1973 reprint for ?18 on abebooks.
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    UCSW stands for ?

    Worth an ask. My experience of university clubs was with Aberystwyth - I compiled and publisuhed a club history in 1990 (http://www.abercavers.co.uk/thrutch/015 ) and found that prior to a decade earlier there was nothing to work from. The club 'log books' (handwritten trip accounts usually...
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    UCSW stands for ?

    University College of South Wales (more fully, University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, though the last bit was often omitted). This was the name of University College Cardiff from 1883 to 1972; UCC merged with University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in 1988 to form...
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    Welsh Wezzit

    You were right to ask for detail: OFD 1 is an extensive cave in its own right. Ogof Pasg however is scarcely more than one main route of very modest length.
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    Welsh Wezzit

    Huge has it - well done. Its the crawl between the deep pool and the grotto at the breakthrough to Ogof Foel Fawr. Back to you!
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    Welsh Wezzit

    Not Otter Hole, and not OFD top entrance area.
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    Welsh Wezzit

    Okay, here's one to keep the ball rolling:
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    Welsh Wezzit

    Allan has it - well done, and over to you.
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    Welsh Wezzit

    Sorry - not Ogof Craig a Ffynnon.
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    Welsh Wezzit

    Sorry - not Draenen.
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    Welsh Wezzit

    A bit over-compressed: apologies for lack of sharpness!
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    Welsh Wezzit

    My identification was based on a belief that it is one of the inlet tube upwards from the main stream (where the person is standing) to Flood Passage (the usual dry entry route and former showcave). Not sure which tube as they rather seem to look very similar to each other and when I've ascended...
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    Re-own the Colonies

    United States Constitution, Article Two, Section 1: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have...
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