Here is a book that clears up the mysteries of seven sisters, the auxillary cave and tells the story of a murder with the body found in one of the quarries It contains lots of other information about Bathampton down - over 200 pages and full of photos and maps Here is: The preface The table...

Hi all Most people who like digital maps will know about this site already. I went to a SGMRG talk last night and was pleased to find that Bristol's know your place website is to be extended to cover the whole of the south west. The web site provides good quality historical digital maps...

Well the cycle path is finally open, but as some people I know have already been through it I got curious as to where it went and which quarries were nearby. So I registered the Sustran map onto GoogleEarth and combined it with the MCRA. Here is a link to the kml and maps click on image for...

Rooting in my loft I found some old caving vhs tapes including: Possibly the best caving video ever "A year in the life of Yorkshire Cave Rescue Organisation - 1994" Rescuing university cavers during the silly season (freshers weeks) and of CNCC's secret weapon - Toby Chilton. part 1 part 2

Brian C and myself went on a ramble around Ridge/Park Lane tramway on saturday. We were surprised to see the progress made on opening up park lane quarry in Neston. It is being re-opened after a lengthy planning permission process. An enormous earth and stone barrier around the new entrance...

A friend of mine is colour blind and developed this free android app to solve the problem for him and others Perhaps you can modify surveys?

Link to photo album Cannot link to trip report due to childish re-writes of urls Vandalism in Box 9th February 2012 We were in Box last night - travelling from Jacks Entrance through to Backdoor via a visit to the upper series (with help from the surveyors) As we returned from the dodgy upper...

Recently someone sent me a link to their photo album hosted on photobucket. As there were over a hundred photos I wrote a script to do the job. Here is a link to the script photobucket_download.py It can run in two modes depending on whether you give a password python...

Last night we did our first visit to Bath Swallet when we did the through trip from Rods Pot ( trip report here). I managed to dislodge a small rock in the ledge within Showerpot - this rock was only small but it caused a much larger rock (40-50cm diameter) to become unstable - so we gave it a...

The ideal outcome to this post is that I would like some advice about how to obtain a spare part for my petzl duo. Failing that a shared understanding of the failings or not of the petzl duo. I posted a message on the petzl  web site describing my problem and received no reply or even...

Last night we tried to visit Slaughter Stream Cave and had a rather short trip. A collapse has blocked the entrance series just before the first of the two pitches in the entrance series. The collapse can be found just after the last of the fixed ladders in the entrance series, where the way on...

Hah hum This should bring a smirk to you thinner mendip cavers. I lost my gear bag with 10 or so maillons and hangers and several krabs a spanner and pliers in whitepit. If anyone finds them and returns them I would be most grateful. Beers certainly. We are trying to mount a rescue mission...

Thanks for a good trip from Mike and Nick our guides and for Hades for allowing our club to visit in their slot after our trip was cancelled due to high water levels. Oh and a big thanks to Nicola for facilitating this trip at the last moment. It was a first trip into the cave for Lucy, Paul...

We recently went down Big Bang Pitch, after having admired it from below before.. but we had never even taken a look at it from above before (so we received some surprises). I have some questions about rigging it and am interested in some background to it as I understand it was the original...

Does anyone know the current procedure for obtaining a key and permit to Agen Allwedd? We would like to visit in the evening on tuesday 2nd October. But we are having difficulty contact the (usual) permit secretrary. I suspect that a temporary alternative procedure may have been set up...

I was wondering if anyone else has received any joy in gettting a trip into otter hole this year? I have gone through the proper procedure for obtaining a trip, and e-mailed, phone several times and received suitable reassurances but .. I now suspect that the system may be broken for some...

A little question about Dolphin Pot We did the 13 pots last night, and whilst rigging the pot (rope tape around the boulder) I looked out on the pitch and above and to the right there were two fixed bolts .. eco-anchor-like ..not too easy to reach .. I wondered how long they had been there...

Who owns ukcaving.com? I am new to this forum, but I like to know where I stand. Why is the forum a commercial web page rather than an org. So who are the owners or how is it owned. Do the people posting have any financial interest? I noticed that people were donating money to cover costs...