Table football is actually a massive shout, though apparently Nadia thinks it's shit. Maybe they shouldn't have let her in after all...

Burren: Poulelva - Pollnagollum provides a great through trip which is justly popular and not too hard to routefind (should take 5 - 7 hours at a steady pace if visiting for the first time); there are many other options in the high level galleries which can be visited in pretty much any weather...

When can I have my alpkit gloves back Kristian? I know you have them. https://alpkit.com/products/gabbro-waterproof-winter-glove - these ones And before you mention the red dragon remember the car key ;)

Thanks for signing up all who have already :) we're pretty much at capacity now so any further sign ups will be added to a reserve list!

Ruiaridh accidentally took it so all good :)

I should also add that I will try and allocate places as evenly between clubs as I can. So if we have a preponderance of sign ups from one club, I might ask that you decide between yourselves who comes so that we don't only have people from one club :)

Myself, Ruiaridh Macleod, Lydia de Brett and Joe Stell have organised a practical cave science weekend at SWCC, 2nd - 3rd March. Saturday will feature three underground workshops, where we will go caving in OFD and look at either cave geomorphology/hydrogeology, cave biology and cave...

Think I may have managed to leave a new style left foot pantin at leck fell upper parking, where you park for lost John's, with brown electrical tape on, on Sunday 17th December, evening. If anyone happens to spot it please let me know :)

You did omit the final sentence of his paragraph: ...I realised also that exploration wasn’t necessarily synonymous with setting foot where no-one had been before, as it often meant where no white man had been before! I don't know Harry but this statement alone makes me more inclined to give...

I've caved with Eva in the Hochschwab, its an amazing karst area, do come to the talk if you want to find out more!

This is starting now :)

The 'ferry vs car' topic was discussed on ukclimbing a few years ago in relation to an article about climbing in Europe by train https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/ukc/a_guide_to_climbing_trips_in_europe_by_train-722440?v=1#x9279684 In summary, it depends on the emissions of your vehicle

Don't bother, he knows that his flippant straw man arguments are self evidently bollocks. He knows you can quite easily travel the world without flying and that no one isarguing to stop cultural exchanges via travel. If he doesn't realise that then he's equally not worth your time. He also...

I've just been reading up on the carbon offsetting scheme used here. It's an interesting approach, but quite complicated and not as clear-cut as you might hope for. The total carbon footprint of the expedition was calculated to be 31.105 tonnes. This was claimed to have been fully offset by the...

Ah, I see where some confusion arose, my apologies, poor comms from me. Currently, we do not consider carbon officially (which I sort of implied we did), however we do consider the presence of younger cavers via the Alex Pitcher and Ian Timney awards and also more informally by committe...

I'm not arguing for a reduction in the number of cavers attending, but a change in how they transport themselves there, with a move away from flying. For caving expeditions to European destinations this is easy; for places like Mulu its less easy, but not impossible. The first trip to Mulu...

Completely agree that GPF funding should be used to benefit expeditions with a higher young caver contingent, purely based on financial need. Its also nice that these expeditions often have fewer emissions associated with them and less of a colonial legacy to deal with. This is very much a part...

In summary, I think that the future of UK cave exploration has to continue to focus on European exploration (these trips already constitute the bulk of GPF funding right now). There is more cave in Austria than Austrian cavers can feasibly explore. Since they seem happy for us to go there, let's...

The best method of reducing an expeditions carbon footprint is to reduce the number of personnel flying to the expedition destination. This has to be a part of any serious strategy to reduce emissions from international cave exploration, no matter what other steps are taken. Otherwise you are...

In response to the discussion that has been occurring here, I've organised this session at Hidden Earth: https://hidden.earth/session/1178 I hope that many of you who have contributed here will be able to attend, so that we can discuss the best way for GPF to consider carbon emissions of...