I've attached (I believe) some large scale surveys. I'm not entirely sure where they came from,  but should be sufficient for most trips. There's also a description of the through trip in http://dev.chelseaspelaeo.org/newsletters/archive/Vol52No10.pdf

Ah, I was wondering who it was that did the EuroSpeleo guide. Thanks for doing that Damian, AFAIK its the only numerical guide to any caves in the UK! If one could be produced that covered more caves and more regions, it could be a widely used document. My comments were me wondering whether...

Yeah, its intended as a starting point for deciding what description to read or who to ask. Deciding what trip to do based solely on the ratings of some person on the internet would be about as mad as doing a climbing route with knowledge only of the grade, without knowing who graded it, or...

Thanks for the link. It's certainly a good list and I'll add it to the spreadsheet at some point. However, some of it seems dubious. Rowten is a 1 and King Pot is a 3? Is Swinsto really deserving of a 4? I always felt that Stream Passage Pot was safer in wet conditions that Flood Entrance, as...

I've only added caves for the Dales at this point, but feel free to add other caves in other regions or insert more caves in the Dales section. Also, yes, this is a publicly editable spreadsheet and so easily vandalised, but I'll back it up regularly so I'm optimistic that no responses will...

Hi, How useful do people think it is to rate caves on how appropriate they are to do after rain? I've had my own list for a while and it's saved me and clubs I've been in time (and possibly some hairy trips) by providing a way to quickly narrow down what caves would be suitable. Obviously...

These are the entries for UBSS: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127423544@N02/24364329098/in/album-72157688936731374/lightbox/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/127423544@N02/26440243879/in/album-72157688936731374/lightbox/...

It would be for life-lining on a ladder. I could easily make one myself that would work for holding my oversuit together and dragging bags. I might even be able to persuade myself to trust it for additional protection on short ladder pitches, but never for belaying someone else. Borrowing a...

Has anyone used a work positioning belt for caving? Some are pretty cheap, at half the price of the Warmbac ones: https://www.ffx.co.uk/tools/product/Silverline-251657-5024763122316-Work-Positioning-Belt-2-Point They come with D-rings, and are actually tested to EN358 (whatever that means)...

I very much hope it'll never come to that, and I'm not entirely sure you're being serious, but I think that crowd funding a caver's defence against an aggressively litigious landowner could be a worthwhile act. Yeah, I was mainly joking about the dumping of dead livestock, but I enjoyed the...

As far as I can tell, and from talking with urbex'ers and protestors, there are two types of trespass: Trespass to Land This is a civil offence and this is what Bob is talking about. If you wander on to someone's land, or dump your broken washing machine in their field, then you can be guilty...

There's two problems filters can introduce, reduced image quality and flare. As for reduced imaged quality: I always used a cheap ebay UV filter for caving photos. I tested it above ground and could not see any difference between with the filter on or off at 100% magnification. However, I used...

Hi all, Did anyone pick up a Warmbac oversuit, size XL, in good condition, with Sainsburys double take bars in the left bicep pocket, from the SWCC on Sunday the 29th of January? I hung it on the rack near the showers to 'dry' on the Saturday evening then when I came to use it the next day...

Lastly, if you do want to do light painting then one neat way is to take multiple images on a tripod then overlay them on photoshop/gimp and choose the lighten only layer mode. (This can also be done very quickly with ImageMagick). This is essentially what the Olympus tough cameras do and helps...

Third, the reasoning: Using a modern camera at base ISO with a thyristor flash means you don't have to worry about motion blur, camera shake, correct exposure, digital noise, white balance, or sensor size. As an example for the last point, the wildlife nature photographer of the year...

Second, the lighting: I'd then recommending pairing the camera with a thryistor controlled flashgun, a piece of 3mm thick IR pass plastic, and an optical trigger. Glue a piece of the IR plastic over the on board flash so that the mist isn't lit up and the image becomes cloudy. Connect the...

I'll break this post into a few sections. First, the cameras that I would recommend: The cheapest way that I know of to get a camera with full manual control is to get a Canon compact from ebay then use CHDK with it. This is a touch fiddly, but not too bad once you've read the instructions...

I also felt that fibre pile suits soak up too much water. The ones I used dried faster than expected, given their bulk, but not fast enough to compete with bog standard polyester fleeces. Here's some of my standard list of gear I recommend for those feeling the cold: Feet too cold: 5mm booties...

Yeah, I'll accept that Rude Nora is definitely made here and Exposure is probably, largely, manufactured in the UK. Great as these lights are, very small production run or very high end lights are not the answer for most people out there. (We might be going a little off topic here, but seeing...

Clulite certainly does have a factory in Hampshire, but what percentage of the manufacturing is done there? A quick search for an example brings up: http://uk.farnell.com/clulite/hl10/head-torch-rechargeable-1w-uk/dp/1013172 And for Country of Origin: China (Country in which last significant...