I may be in the minority here but I cannot stand double gated crabs, they don't seem to fit my hands somehow. I have an edelrid pure slider on my long cowstail as a kind of halfway between a snapgate and a locker, only time will tell how badly mud affects the mechanism though as it hasn't been...

I'm late to the party on this thread but I have a big head and a lot of hair and I'm nowhere near the max adjustment of my helmet which is a Grivel Salamander. The one thing I will say is that the strap at the rear does slip over the course of the day if you have a heavy lamp on the front, but a...

are you allowed to sell live animals on ebay? maybe fb marketplace would be a better bet

My student loan is i think low enough that it makes financial sense to pay it off ASAP, partly thanks to me being welsh and getting a slightly nicer deal as a result, though I haven't actually sat down and done the maths yet. I probably should since i finish uni this week. Unfortunately, running...

fortunately (unfortunately?) I have a very informal arrangement and live with my landlord. The amount of money I've saved compared to what I'd have been paying in student accom could buy me a scurion 1500 though 🤔

In celebration of the latest student loan installment dropping a few days ago

glad it didn't go unappreciated 😂

Dinorwig quarry is good, park at Dinorwig bus terminus and follow the footpath from the terminus up into the quarry (5 mins walk, just follow all the people carrying climbing gear), if you can find them there's a wide variety of old boilers, engines etc. (I can dm you with further details if you...

it'll be interesting to see if in a few decades spray paint daubings are treated with the same reverence as old initials carved into the rock or written in carbide soot - after all, a few years down the line that too will be part of the history of places. Certainly in at least one (non mine or...

I'd agree with langcliffe that it looks like a chunk from a brachiopod of some kind. Seeing that kind of longitudinal segmentation on a solitary coral would be unusual I believe?

The Wurzels have been going since the 60s and are surprisingly good live, especially considering the fact that I think apart from the drummer they're all in their mid 80s

You get to the pub much quicker with a cave that short too - I'm yet to see any disadvantages 😂

is it bad that I want to rent this just to play with it for the day?

has to be Mr Blue Sky for me

yea it works fine as long as the area you're fixing it to is vaguely clean, and if you've stopped for a first aid break you're probably in a position to find something to wash or wipe mud off - it sticks better to itself than skin anyway at the best of times so as long as you wrap it nice n snug...

Mountain first aid kit: -for patching body parts: plasters, couple of bandages & dressings in different sizes, electrical tape (wrapped around fork to save space), climbing finger support tape, spray on action plaster (good for grazes and stuff like that) -drugs: aspirin, paracetamol...

Looks like it could be useful for some smaller digs too that

unfortunately the thinnest contender (and other chandlery websites) go is 12mm, which is wider than the 8mm or so I'm after, and many only offer 50m rolls. Have contacted the website you linked this morning re obtaining samples of 12mm, but I'm still on the hunt for narrower webbing

slings are a lot thicker, even the super light ones Beal make are a lot chunkier (and Josh is right too, Dyneema slings arent 100% Dyneema)

Genius! if i dont find somewhere i can find any for less than £16, thats exactly what I'll be doing