I think I remember reading an autobiography of a famous caver, and they mention they were driving to the Dales and passed a caver who was walking backwards from York to Ingleton/Settle/Skipton or somewhere. Does anyone know if this actually happened? I'm pretty sure I read it but it was a decade...

I'm up in Durness in late December and I'd like to have a look at Smoo Cave. I think there is a walkway part of the way and then you can go on a guided tour further in, but these tours stop running after October. Has anyone done Smoo without the guide? I read that the tours stops because it...

Have you ever been on a tensioned cable and heard a sound like a blaster from Star Wars when you bang the cable or the pully skips on it? Turns out that's how they actually made the sound effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0wIdGxfbQ...

I remember having a couple of sessions digging on the Weston Highway project, somewhere around  Calcite Aven in the Titan area of the Peak system. It was around 12 years ago(!) I was wondering if what had happened there since then? How is the dig these days?

I thought I'd share this in case it's helpful to people. The author is a nurse so I'm assuming it's accurate. One thing I do know about gloves, from working in a lab, is that you have to work out what you are and aren't going to touch with them (door knobs, car keys, steering wheel etc) and...

I had an idea of making a book with 50 pointless trips in it, trips where there is a fair bit of effort for an entirely pointless outcome. Some ideas are: 1) A Wade's Entrance - OBJ exchange in GG 2) Yordas Big 20: Every possible exchange in Yordas, done in a day, no leaving rigging in place...

What ferry do people use for getting to northern spain and how much is an average price for it? I've looked at Plymouth to Santander in September with a car and it seems to be about ?700 for 2 of us, which is a lot, what do the people who go there on expo do? Cheers

Does anyone here who goes out in scotland in winter ever use a caving undersuit as a baselayer? I'm trying to put some kit together for winter and I'm wondering if its a good idea. Maybe not for the walk in but I could get changed into it at the base of the climb.

Does anybody know what condition the ropes up escelator rift in Ireby II are in? I was there a couple of years ago and they were getting worn, just wondering if theyre still usuable. Cheers

I heard a couple of rumours of some fixed ropes in Ireby 2 being in bad condition, I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it? Which ropes are meant to be bad? Is it the skylight passage ropes, escalator rift or that one hanging out of the roof of Jupiter Cavern (where does that one...

Recently my PVC has died and I'm looking for an alternative. I do mainly Dales caving and in the active pots Ive found PVC great, in places like Easgil with lotsof dry stomping however Ive found it very hot and dehydrating. Iv'e also found the PVC to be not that hard wearing. I can still get a...

Does anybody know about any parts of the easegill/lankaster ect system that you can get to in the wet? somewhere i can spend a while with the camera in unsettled/wet weather? Cheers

A few weeks back I was in GG and it was fairly lively, I noticed that aswell as the usual flow of water to the left (as you stand facing the waterfalls) to that sink below the mud bank, some was flowing to the right to sink behind a boulder a shorter distance away, near a small corner. I was...

How dry does it have to be to do the main hang? is there a rigging guide on t'internet somewhere?

I was thinking of going to Maricabo in Easgill at some point and was wondering if anyone had any information about it? Is it hard? How do you get there? Can it be done in wet weather? ALso is it true that you're only supposed to go there once? Cheers

How do we know the map drawn in 17something showing the continuation of Eldon and the streamway is truthfull ( I really want it to be!)? Because if the other shafts, chambers and streamway were there, when various people filled the hole in wouldnt the rubble go all the way down into the...

Does anyone know if there will be rooom for 9 at the TSG hut tonight? I've tried to book but cant get through to Ann, the TSG website shows there are no bookings for tonight should I just turn up? Cheers.

I was just wondering about the part of rat-hole where you have to clip into a fixed rope and swing on it to get accross a gap, does anybody know what condition its in, what it's rigged off etc? Also are you clipped into anything else?

There's a hill in the peak district covered with a few hundered boulders which are arranged in about ten groups over an area of a about a square mile. Fortunatly there is a trig point in the middle of one of the clumps that can act as a point of reference for everything. How should I go about...

I'm not a believer in putting signs up everywhere saying 'dont do this' etc, especially the countryside, but I was doing dihedral and some fool was throwing rocks down into the chamber, :furious: nearly sh@t myself. They were close-ish and would have been far too close if we had been on the...