clearly those woke lefties are being oversensitive by complaining about nearly falling out of their harnesses mid-pitch like, get a grip, petzl has no obligation to provide safe and usable ppe (just mean to say I don't think the political name calling is particularly relevant in this instance...

Wow. The more you look at it the harder to tell what animal that is. Can't remember hearing of a cave called Two-Legged-Goat-Bull-Creature On Roof Of Mosque Pot but that's my best guess.

Late reply sorry! It is shuttleworth/ witches II indeed, over to fulk :)

Right, one of my favourite formations then..!

ah, i remember this one; it has been a wezzit before! Gavel, in one of the chambers off from Glasfurd's Chamber- in your own words!! do i get credit for recognising the picture or is it cheating...

I bring a small peli case with my phone, spare battery, steri strips, a bandage, a large plaster, duct tape, a tampon, ibuprofen, diclofenac, mini eye wash, anti septic wipes, savlon, a candle and a lighter, and a 1man emergency bothy in my bag. A perhaps limited and haphazard little collection...

pwll dwfn it is of course. Rigging the 4th pitch. over to you :)

Ah, not quite where I thought then, I see now- right cave wrong choke! I'll take it anyway... I'm never the one to bring my phone so I struggled for material- hopefully this is sufficient, the quality is terrible but the clues are there and the options limited. In the throes of derigging in...

Is it Aggy? just past the not-very-squeezy bit, just before some tat handline climbs? if memory serves correct there is a very dodgy way to get over..

wowie i cannot believe petzl has discovered a source of true perpetual motion :O so smart he would be generating some real power in there

to be fair, babyhagrid was not making fun of (in a playful and lighthearted way) sharing pictures of ones *own* kids, rather of the pictures of the Random Spanish Superchildren whose shadow we, poor, old (i.e. not under 12) uk troglodytes can never hope to step out of (once again, i am joking)...

If I am leading I tend to make formation based small talk (ranging from the interesting to the nonsensical), I also, whether having been there before or not, tend to do a lot of 'wow's, 'this is sooo cool's and 'do you think this kind of looks like a *insert something funny or possibly lewd*?'s...

why should making those individuals that "take issue" comfortable take priority over the safety of people affected by their bigotry? The stakes are not remotely the same, being uncomfortable is not the same as being unsafe and unwelcome (others have explained more eloquently than I could that...

Being on the trip the photo was taken on feels too much like cheating, even though getting away from those fine black gour pools was enough of a struggle that I feel I do deserve the knowledge acquired! Maybe that can serve as a bit of a clue...

I'm sure I havent got it right but as no one else has made an attempt; I thought they could be the cave pearls in county pot as you leave spout hall towards poetic justice above the streamway

@Misbecaving I hope you know you've caused quite a stir in one small group of (ex-)student cavers

thanks, that's helpful! I wasn't rigging it and we were kind of onsighting the bolts rather than checking the topo too closely, but we had a rebelay on a ledge around 4m from the 2nd pitchhead, followed by two deviations, to drop you down to where you can see the muddy digs at the bottom. Both...

My friends and I (Isaac, Ioan, me) were planning a Rhino Rift trip yesterday- a plan that was mildly derailed by our fearless leader forgetting that we would need a key for that (if someone knows how to get one do let me know..!) so we decided to jump down Hunter's Hole instead so as to not...

Yesterday I took my very dear non-caver friend to Porth Yr Ogof. We had just come out the tradesman's entrance and were sat outside the main cave sharing some coffee from my thermos before going back in to explore, when an older gentleman approached us and asked us if we had just been caving...

this being a bit more prussiking than any of us had done before, we each employed different methods of getting through it. Babyhagrid keeping his eyes on the formations, prussiking til the next stal- I counted pull-ups and would take a rest at 50 (counted to about 250 on the 80), the last man up...