OFD Cym Dwr - off route around the smithy streamway area. Two hoods. Let me know any details about them and I'll post on.

After some 25 years or so I've finally replaced both my Stop and my Croll.... They're still working more or less, the Stop was getting somewhat fast but it didn't look that bad. Until you peer at it closely and realise the bottom bobbin was well and truly worn. The Croll was definitely still...

RDCC have just come back from a great trip aborad where we were hosted by a local club and shown the delights of their area. And so with plenty of time on our hands travelling back, we wondered what we could offer a club wanting to visit the uk. Imagine 5 or so competent cavers visiting the UK...

In P8 (derbs) on Sunday (25/06) at the bottom on the 2nd (Alternative but usual) direct pitch, I found a narrow sling and Karabiner. Anyone missing it (let me know the colour of tape if you think it's yours!).

Given the unusually good weather streak we're having what are people's suggestions for (non-diving) caves that can't be done in bad/unsettled weather? I know of: Black Shiver Mere Gill Mossdale P8 beyond 'sump'1 if/when it opens. Are there other sumps that become passable for dry(ish) cavers?

If you're going to do something you might as well over-engineer it. The Rope Washer Mk1. Some leftover kitchen splashback, a couple of lengths of 4x2, 15mm pipe clips (ditto leftover) plus some pulleys and brushes from BnQ and a hose adaptor. The pulleys are quite cheap and I don't have long...

I don't imagine many people ever bother dropping the final couple of meters to the oxlow/Maskill sump (handline?!) from the bottom of Waterfall chamber. If you do - bring your own rope! There's a very calcited in-situ rope, feels solid with the amount of encrustation on it. And until yesterday...

Can anyone tell me anything more about this lamp? All I know was that an uncle recovered it in the 50s? from a cottage in South? Wales, believed to have been in use. It has since made it's way to my parents house where I saw it over the festive period. - the closest I got to underground. If...

Uni of Reading has been doing some demonstrations of just how little water dry land will retain and why heavy rainfall can cause floods even when the water table is otherwise low: Which we all know of course, but useful reminder

Does anyone have any contacts (probably european - who ship to the UK!) for companies selling the Meander Oversuit? Tony's out of stock in my size 3A Or suggestions for alternatives? The Warmbac PVC is (last time I looked) too stiff, and cordura too cold. Is the Landjoff still available...

Generally if it's basically looking ok I don't expect to replace any of my metal SRT gear (Stops when worn, croll if missing teeth, maillons and karabiners never unless deformed). We (eg not me) managed to bounce a maillon 20 odd m down a shaft yesterday. It looks unmarked, and still does up...

An inverse to the popular question of what lengths to cut a drum of rope into: I'll be in the Dales with a limited set of ropes, what are the best/achievable caves available? Is there an easily readable list cave / required ropes? Yes I could read every page of the guidebooks, but before I...

Red CPC rope bag (1) found at the bottom of the 10m 'flowstone chamber' pitch on Small Mammal alternative route. (16th Oct) We brought it out and left it at YSS, because that's where we were staying. I can pass on contact details if necessary.

I've been a few times, but the last trip was more than 5 years ago. Anyone know if anything has changed in that time? There was an issue with poulnagree access, has this been resolved or is it still best avoided for now? I know there was a recent (this year?) collapse in St Catherines. Is this...

https://cavingpodcast.podomatic.com/ A list of many hours of a US caver Matt Pelsor interviewing guests including most recently famous US cave-microbiologist, WNS expert and explorer Hazel Barton

After some faffing we eventually set off from Horton on the wrong Pennine way, blithely chatting and enjoying the stroll in too much caving gear for the weather. The various Three Peaks walkers looked much better equipped. Eventually we worked out where we'd gone wrong and crossed over to the...

Are there situations when it's right to do so? The general 'rule' I've always used is that you leave other people's gear alone, with perhaps two exceptions: a) the trivial one, on ladder pitches rather than double rigging ladders, leave yours coiled at the pitch head use the one that's there...

We've got an easegil and Argyle visit scheduled this weekend. Given the recent amounts of rainfall are there any suggestions for interesting trips that are likely to be still passable? I'm sort of surprised there hasn't been any photos of places in flood.

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1536566%20 Civil Service 1 year full time post to manage people managing Bats in Churches. No Bat handling license required. Might be nice to have a bat sympathetic person fill the role.

Anyone want a dead scurion? Or more helpfully, know a reset factory defaults trick? Currently it appears completely dead, no indicators leds, no light. I do get 8.4V from the battery which seems to charge normally. It's a p4, and now 8 years old, which isn't bad going for caving gear, but...