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  1. Speleotron

    First cave rescue?

    If we're including mine rescues then the first one was probably thousands of years ago.
  2. Speleotron

    Walking backwards from York to the Dales.

    Thanks for the info! I couldn't be sure if I'd read it or not. I wonder what muscular effects it has as the body isn't designed for it.
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    Walking backwards from York to the Dales.

    I think I remember reading an autobiography of a famous caver, and they mention they were driving to the Dales and passed a caver who was walking backwards from York to Ingleton/Settle/Skipton or somewhere. Does anyone know if this actually happened? I'm pretty sure I read it but it was a decade...
  4. Speleotron

    Dont beleive all you read in books!

    Why have they assumed that it has to go down to sea level? Or have they just mixed up altitude and depth?
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    Where are the young(ish) people hiding?

    Lots of people say caving is dyingor thriving but it must be hard to actually know. Even if you got stats from clubs it wouldn't say much. I know a few people from the dales who went caving for years without really knowing formal clubs existed. I bet there could be a lot of ghost cavers out there.
  6. Speleotron

    Digging close to Yordas Pot

    If it goes anywhere you should call it Moredas.
  7. Speleotron

    Any one with ?150 000?

    The yield on that layby is rubbish, you'd have to sell a lot of burgers to turn a profit, if you ever did.
  8. Speleotron

    Wezzit?

    Is that triangle squeeze through the middle of a fault then? I never realised.
  9. Speleotron

    Cryptic caves

    OK what about the about though? Why about half empty? Also, does every clue have to have a cryptic section for the word cave, pot or hole?
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    Cryptic caves

    I understood "put the pigs to sleep" but what about "then it's half empty"?
  11. Speleotron

    Wezzit?

    The perspective on that one is strange, it looks like the caver is three inches tall.
  12. Speleotron

    Smoo in December

    I popped into the cave today and it's quite impressive. Water levels are very high and there was no sign of any opening accross the pool so I suppose it's all sumped. Not that it matters as it was obvious that trying to cross the pool would be a bad idea, the whole thing is a big swirling mess...
  13. Speleotron

    Jingling Pot - The tree is about to fall into it

    Many people will refuse to cut down a rowan tree due to it being bad luck but it's probably worse luck to have it fall down the shaft onto you.
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    Jingling Pot - The tree is about to fall into it

    That tree is a bit like the pitch drop experiment.
  15. Speleotron

    Coal, geologically mostly all about the same age

    How do we have hecters of coal? Shouldn't it be a unit of volume not area?
  16. Speleotron

    Hello from T-rol!

    How do you maintain the mining tradition?
  17. Speleotron

    Coal, geologically mostly all about the same age

    A youtuber talking rubbish, who would have thought?
  18. Speleotron

    Smoo in December

    Thanks Bob. I'm not going to stick my neck out very far and will have a callout etc. In fact I can predict that I'll get there and everything will be freezing so I won't go beyond the walkway. Sounds like a nice cave.
  19. Speleotron

    Smoo in December

    Thanks for the info.
  20. Speleotron

    Smoo in December

    I'm up in Durness in late December and I'd like to have a look at Smoo Cave. I think there is a walkway part of the way and then you can go on a guided tour further in, but these tours stop running after October. Has anyone done Smoo without the guide? I read that the tours stops because it...
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