In 1967 six of us went down Penyghent Pot Me and two other RRCPC-Roger Calvert (an Elvis looking person )and Ian Wilkinson and 3 others Happy Wanders Caving Club?Can anyone say if they were there/know who was?!!! It was an unforgettable trip in the early days of home made wetsuits (that made us...

This was a HARD trip. On July 4 1897 severn set off with a cart horse up Kingsdale with1700ft of rope 200 ft of rope ladder lots of coils of telephone wire, flare lamps crow bars etc weighing many hundredweights which the severn then struggled up the fell .(as the report warns -this type of hole...

A look back:- yes it was horrible -with the pandemic Biblical weather lockdowns etc HOWEVER on refection taking care caving in the UK had (in no special order)   Excellent new discoveries by hard perstant work in Darbyshire-Cussy pot (Eylam) and a New mater cave The Dales -a major find on...

open sat +sunday for now so good to get a cavers breakfast very tasty  I did not know till recently i must have been in a cave!! Also a new survey to gloat over upstairs All good

Danger- report from RRCPC Lose rocks just below entrance pipe

For the record- A reliable verbal report from the 1970s (but lost) re Dunld Mill Hole (SD 5159 6762) shows a Dye test  of 8 hours(max dye ion 12 hours) to Nether Beck Farm (SD508 710 which is 500meters downstream of the rising 3 kilometres  and 30 m lower than the sump in Dunald Mill Hole! Sump...

Thai rescue  is on tv channel 91 PBS AMERICA this Monday 29 June 7-30 to 8-40 PM a documentary

BEWARE NASTY POTHOLES ON THIS ROAD mainly two at the "top "level bit before the small "hill"I mist the deep one but not its mate THAT COST A NEW TYRE :weep: ONLY JUST ROOM ON THE RIGHT TO MISS BOTH I have told the right pothole repair people and said that the road used a lot and for emergencyuse

A walk in Easegill Valley appears to show flood levels much the same as Storm Desmond! Top Sink-water had gone down the "dry oxbow" out side and overflowed into the hole(2m x2cm deep steam County Pot to within 0.5 of the lid ie of the Easegill beck out side Link Pot and Misteral Pot fine However...

In the Oct Descent  is news of Verevkin in Georgia is deeper than Krubera  cave Verevkin 2204m Krubera 2197m (ie 7m less deep) look in Descent for more  news hopefully there will be a full report soon sounds a nicer cave  :beer2:

the entrance passage and duck flood to 10m (30 foot) deep in 20mins in extreme rain also all (except the "air bells) of the 700m long Perfidia  crawl sump the big passage (Expressway ) is dry this event has been seen!!+flood marks can be seen duck also sumps in rainy days and needs a few dry...