Are you sure you thought this was a good idea for a thread........?

Late night on a survey trip. Usual 2nd hand phone camera - lighting solely surveyor's headtorch.

Gang? Gang??

I was merely an observer to events, but they did enlarge and then excavate their way into a low streamway, They disappeared from view into the passage for quite a while. I was getting cold and left before they emerged, but seeing as how they were taking the full force of the stream throughout...

Bolt-climb in Yordas. Cheap 2nd hand phone, with lighting courtesy of others' 'throw everything including the kitchen sink at it' method.

On the theme of surface related caving photos - Here's a glimpse of one of the many unsung heroes of caving; in this instance dragging the new lid for F'ing Hopeless up onto Leck Fell the other day, without feeling the need to 'bang on' about it via BBC news or a YouTube channel...... ;)

I find that the days of stiff and unwieldy harnesses are a thing of the past since I started using this harness wash and conditioner, all in one convenient bottle.

You're paying for the will it?/won't it? adrenalin buzz.

So, have I got this correct? The older graffiti is important cultural artefact, but the newer graffiti is vandalism, and that people leaving loads of rubbish/detritus in an abandoned mine is disgraceful because it's spoiling the ambience created by all the scrap cars which had previously been...

Derigging exploratory traverse - North Pennines - 2nd hand phone & subject's caplamp

Space Miners - The 'next generation' of cave exploration in the Dales. They obviously have youth on their side........

Already noticed and duly noted. Apart from the (hopefully) obvious loose debris above and around the pitches, the fine mud formations were truly remarkable. Great care will be needed to preserve these features. Having seen it first hand - that was one hell of pushing trip you did to get up...

On reaching this point, you decide that you have two options: a) Deploy your 'lucky' crowbar, or b).........

It's not uncommon to see some of the sheep in the fields around Yordas jump over the walls and onto the road. Probably not as common to see them jump back though. Similar thing around Masongill too.

Rift LKE exchange....... Taken with 2nd hand phone - no flash - Fenix headtorch