To throw another suggestion into the mix…. Back when I was a gamekeeper on a grouse moor, in snowy weather at daybreak I’d follow fox prints for miles across the fells sometimes to locate the holes they used…. Usually the same fox will use the same hole repeatedly. I’ve seen and indeed created...

Grew up and indeed still live in Arkengarthdale and was always fascinated and slightly terrified of the mine entrances on my grandparents farm (slei gill and storthwaite for anyone who knows it) Tentative looks to the limit of daylight and terror and eventually persuaded my dad to ask the local...

Surveyors dog passage? Which is somewhere leck fell ish I think?

I’ve still got my drying maiden thing above the fire in the front room, it’s ace! And makes the house smell lovely!

I’ve heard them called “poss tubs” in swaledale certainly.

My mother had her arm pulled through a neighbours electric mangle when I was a kid, I can still hear the screams 35 yrs later. Ouch.

Marmite passage at the bottom of Brown Hill Pot is named for the appropriately sized pools in the floor of the stream before the sump

Or rising from it to fight the climbing wall staff

Hi Skippy, Possibly planning a trip for next Friday depending on weather. Is it likely to still be rigged and if we do go do you want any of the lower pitches derigging for you as we come out if it’s helpful? Cheers

Perfect. Many thanks!

Hello Does anyone know if a copy of the kinnaird commission report 1864 is available anywhere online? Thanks

I think the real issue which is being missed is divers cluttering up underwater cave with miles of string, in Keld head alone there’s kilometres of the stuff! Something should be done about this persistent underwater littering, I mean imagine the micro plastics they could be releasing into the sump!

Never known @Pitlamp to have time to sit down?! 😉

It is. It’s a fascinating thing to see in person. Although I’ve only seen it once.

As a youngester I avidly read their catalogue, I can picture it now! My first knee pads and tacklebag came from them, via the North Pole and Santa Claus. A shame it’s going. Best wishes to the owners!

I suspect that’s Andrew’s point Hannah, that the CNCC are taking a reasonable and pragmatic approach to the issues around anchors, which isn’t always helped by armchair lawyers with a limited understanding of the law and the levels of legal knowledge and reasonable knowledge that would be...

If you fancy a dales based club with accomodation id highly recommend the bradford pothole club. (I’m not a member but when work allows I’ve joined the on some trips with the intention of joining) Regular well advertised meets, a really friendly and welcoming meets secretary and a nice bunch...

Missing from Sheffield and believed to be in Gt Ayton area, mines rescue have been involved today. Fingers crossed he is found safe and well...

Good effort!! It would be brilliant if someone (not me as I don’t have the skills!) would investigate a way of securing the headgear in Sir Francis in Swaledale before the beam deteriorates any further and it falls and pulls the whole lot down the flooded sump. Maybe there’d be funding from...

It’s interesting as I’ve never knowingly encountered any bad air in there and have been a lot. There’s lots of water movement and a good draught generally. I wonder if it’s bad air in terms of what’s permissible for someone “at work” to be exposed to?