About Out on Rock Before we get started let me say something quick about this new club. Out on Rock is a new caving and climbing club we are forming, mainly consisting of LGBTQIA+ members but basically anyone is welcome, though we currently lack the equipment to take complete novices so having a...

I am not sure if I am allowed to post this here, Admin's feel free to remove it, if this is too much self publicising for you, but... If anyone want's to play a game (JRPG style) made by a caver (me) you can buy it for less than a pint, at the moment! Although the main theme is not caving...

Would a trip into Giants with the rain forecast not be possible tomorrow? I don't want to go down there and find it's too wet to descend Garlands, does anyone know how long it takes for the water to drop again to save a wasted trip?

Has anyone got any recomendations for a caving guide book to Sicily, I will be heading there in January. It will be quite cold so may as well get underground. So far my google search has come up empty, except for a geological book for over £120 !

Is there really no place to hire gear now in the Dales? Bernies used to do it, but now defunct, Inglesport only do lights. If you are not a big club with all this gear to hand how the heck do you get newbies into caving? This is a distinct brick wall/road block I am hitting and frankly I think I...

Hey all. I have booked a trip on the CNCC last week for tomorrow down this cave, but I don't know how it responds to the wet, being a new discovery and all. Does anyone who know, i.e. those involved with digging it know how badly or not it responds to the wet? I note it says moderate wet on the...

I was not sure if I should put this in the digging trip reports section or not, see the below report as to why I might want to. It's strange on paper it looks like an excellent and challenging through trip but I could not find much info about it, other than what pieced together from the...

Considering the size of the mine 200~m there has got to be more to find as in natural passages in there when the draft is like this! It wasn't even that warmer day! Merlin's for comparison or even Carlswalk where barely drafting at all. Video of Hanging flat draft I had a look at those chokes...

This might be me being daft as I have not visited it in 15 years until today, but... I think Ribblehead cave has collapsed. When I was there I had assumed I was in the wrong place, that there must had been some near by hidden shake hole I missed in the field near the barn. But now, having read...

I have not seen this before, but short of a spray can exploding here can anyone explain the colour of this passage? No I have not edited it. It's location is a small side passage towards the end of Black Reef cave in Ribblehead. It could be dye, but why here in this one specific side passage...

Who is best to speak to about Chanterelle Pot. We came to the entrance and found it collapsed. We managed to open the original way in (so we could see our way in) but the later installed plastic tube is in the way. The tube is all buckled and warped. Who installed that please? We need to...

A few weeks ago I took a somewhat famous professional climber caving, Robbie Phillips. I took him down Notts 2 to film it, so he can compare caving to climbing. He wanting somewhere gruelling but as it was his first trip, I picked something easy which could be made harder. So we did the usual...

These posts were split from the "CSS Locks" Topic in the Mendip section: https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=28149.50 I find with enough determination I can squeeze past most of them! Dog hole extensions in Devon being one (I had the key but fancied a challenge). Owl hole, locked with...

hi, does anyone have or know anyone who can give me a decent survey of Great Douk cave? I can't believe there is no survey for this but there is for Southerscales. I am trying to work out where the Westbranch inlet is heading and how far it is away to in Great Douk as it may be worth a dig and...

Here is something our wonderful Priti Petel is trying to sneak through, basically our rights to protest post pandemic. This is important, we need to stop this...

Apparently, the top of Everest is marine limestone, complete with fossils. Not only that we know there is apparently least one cave up there as someone died in one (they call him green boots) as his green boots stick out of the cave...

New Topic after split from https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=27576.125 Roads are definitely at about 60-70% busy as far as I can tell, which is why it's taking so long for the virus and lockdown to go away, this lockdown will go on for many months more? This like I said I am sick of...

When we come out of lockdown I want to be ready to go, so what is the best way to stay cave fit? Currently: I am running about 10 miles a week and doing 30 press ups a day, should I inc-operate anything else, what about core muscles, I know caving normally taxes those muscle groups so any...

As I am no good at solving them I thought I would make some instead this time for the Dales. 1) BE fronting poker 2) coop nutty 3) Alvy rescaling 4) pol tots 5) Adolf hops wt 6) clung horn 7) accept oak VCR 8) Travus technocrat 9) Helens oust 10) antlike snog 11) grippal outlets 12) anchor...

I might be able to get there by M6, as that's still in Lancs (my area), am I likely to pass one of those ANPR cameras or am I still in Lancs when I reach the BPF rd. I know there won't be any cameras on that road, but anyone with local knowledge know please? It's really pissing me off what NYP...