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 :)

GPF have arranged a weekend of cave science aimed specifically at cavers who will be attending expeditions this year. The weekend will be held at the SWCC over Saturday 3rd - Sunday 4th June, and will feature underground workshops on both days. There is space for up to 20 participants currently...

GPF and BCRA have joined forces to organise a few seminars aimed at any caver involved in exploring new cave passage on expeditions abroad. They are intended to be accessible to any caver regardless of academic background, and will cover the fundamental skills and knowledge required to document...

Went to Dowkabottom yesterday, on approaching the entrance a barn owl flew out of it. Just inside the entrance were several owl pellets one of which contained a mouse skull. Has anyone else ever seen a barn owl here?

I would like to get hold of the following article: Goldie, H. S., & Cox, N. J. (2000). Comparative morphometry of limestone pavements in Switzerland, Britain and Ireland. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie. N.F, 122, 85-112 no doi so it wont be findable on sci hub, and I'm unlikely to be passing...

I'm trying to get access to the following manuscript, written by Peter Smart from the University of Bristol: Smart, P. L. (1987). Origin and development of glacio-karst closed depressions in the Picos de Europa, Spain. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 423-443. DOI: 10.1127/zfg/30/1987/423...

This is something that came out of some members of southern student caving clubs asking me for advice of what caves to do in the Dales a little while ago. I made them a list, then remembered the resource produced for Eurospeleo in 2016 and thought it would be maybe handy to produce a more...

Does anyone have any good images of visible plastic pollution in caves? I'm not thinking solely of plastic left there by cavers, but more of stuff that has been washed into a cave from the outside. Images from any cave anywhere in the world, please say where they are from. I'd like to use them...

If anyone is looking to get more involved with cave science specific to geology (or geology more generally), some really great stuff is going online over the next couple of weeks. The European Geosciences Union (EGU) have organised a completely open-access platform for sharing and discussing...

It is time to get signed up to the March 2020 regional CHECC training events! Here are the details (bit of an essay but we?ve got a lot planned!): ***NORTHERN CHECC 2020*** The event will be held on the weekend of 7-8th March 2020 at Bull Pot Farm and a variety of training is on offer. These...

I have a geologist friend who I want to give a book about caves and caving to as a present. He understands karst but not to a great extent. The kind of book I am after is one which has great photos in and is attractive to look at (coffee table style) but also contains enough scientific...

Weekend past I was looking at the Ease Gill survey and found reference to Mushroom Corner close to the Depot passages (County Pot - Wretched Rabbit area). However, I can't find any reference to Mushroom Corner in the new Northern Caves, and I unfortunately don't have Ease Gill Survey at home...

The poor weather forecast for the weekend combined with the high volume of rain which had been casting a dark shadow over the dales all week forced me to cancel plans first of finishing the Hammer Pot survey and carrying diving gear and secondly of doing Quaking. I was therefore in search of an...

I am in need of a decent trip to do this weekend since it will be pissing it down too much for pretty much everything I had in mind, and I'd rather do some real caving instead of just partying like I have done in the past at NCHECC. One option I have been considering is doing a County Pot round...

After a quite outrageous f***-up with the transport, the likelihood of the weekend going ahead was hanging by a thread. Luckily, Shauna, cousin of Higgs-Boson and non-caver, was willing to drive her parents car for the club and this for the first time ever, with her only being put on the...

Fergus, a climbing friend, and his girlfriend Sarah wanted to come caving so we arranged to meet at the BPC on Saturday evening. After sampling the delights of Large Pot Red Herring Series that day, which had gone swimmingly until Michael got himself stuck inconsiderately on the 2nd pitch for...

An attempt was made in the final days of 2018 to begin the project to dive Hammer Pot's most recently discovered sump, the Water Butt, found in 2007, but unfortunately water levels were too high for us to want to try and pass Sludge Crawl (less than 10cm airspace in the small bit and most of us...

I have for sale a very small TSA oversuit which used to belong to my mum. It is quite short in the body so would suit someone who is 5'0'' - 5'3'' and has a short body/torso but normal sized limbs. It is in absolutely spanking condition, hasn't needed to be patched at all and has seen little...

Ever since my last trip into Langcliffe last May I had been meaning to return to have a more thorough look around without the distraction of malnutrition. Peachey had been into Langcliffe during the summer and was suitably upset at the amount of litter remaining in the cave from the 1972 rescue...