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Fantastic shots mate ;)

I'm not on Facebook, perish the thought, but I haven't had chance to do much underground photography lately, other than phone recording of projects, and they're either not interesting enough to publish, or too interesting! But here's a little montage of three from the new mine.

I spend tons of time outdoors, but nothing. Spent Thursday wading through bracken in the Peak District and I've been out in sheep fields all day today. When I was a kid our family stayed in a caravan in Fife, which was infested with fleas, and everyone was covered in bites - except me. I think...

Another draughting hole opened, and another part of the big boulder choke to add to the list ;)

I've been reliably informed by John Barnatt that the scaffold rig at the top of the 125' pitch in Odin Mine was already in-situ on his first visit as a teenager in 1972. It's been used quite a bit recently as a top belay and proved to be solid, but there are plans for DCA (me) to resin-bolt this...

I've never even seen a tick in my life, never mind been bitten by one - unless I taste or smell funny, but nobody's ever mentioned that before.

To be honest, if we were below five or six floors, I did sometimes climb up the rope, as it was still less energy than climbing all the way to the top and abseiling back down. I tied the bucket to the end of the rope and just hauled it up on a jammer and pulley.

A few years ago I worked on a rope-access job painting a brand-new multi-storey car park lift shaft in Liverpool. The lifts weren't yet installed, and so we had to climb fifteen floors up the stairs, at least four times a day, for five weeks, carrying large buckets of very heavy mineral paint up...

Given where we'll need next some entrance pipe, I think we'll stick with plastic ;)

Having almost got stuck in a similar fashion yesterday, I can sympathise :ROFLMAO:

At last - the grid ref is pretty much bang-on, you just have to climb the slope to see anything. Nodrog was there, and is now happy ;) https://peakdistrictcaving.info/home/the-caves/magnesian/cadeby-pot

I'm sorry, I don't take the Sunday Times - or GB News for that matter :rolleyes:

A few new (hi-res) shots of Cucklet Church cave near Eyam:

All our club rope is now 9mm Gleistein, and whilst more expensive (and it certainly can be quick for abseils too, so more care is required not to scorch it), the benefits of its lighter weight and constant suppleness have proved to be worth it.

He gets everywhere... :ROFLMAO:

Only partially caving related, and I confess taken a few days ago (I've been working away), but nevertheless, I got a good shot of Middleton Dale and Hucklow Edge in the Peak District, and the lovely villages that sit between them. Quite a bit of zoom on the Flickr version ;)

It did make me wonder.

I bet they were glad when gunpowder was invented in Monyash ;)

Depth of field always gets shallower the closer a lens gets to the subject, and at a very wide aperture, the centre is always sharper than the corners. Corner sharpness is what separates expensive lenses from cheap ones ;)

Just buy a Raumer Handy instead?