Small package (disto battery) for pick up to go to Greece

I find it remarkable that an organisation who has multiple vacancies, with a deadline for nomination of candidates and Submission of proposals (apparently on Sunday!) hasn't advertised on UKC, Facebook or their own website! I can't even see any minutes from this year. It genuinely makes my...

What squeezes/tight bits of passage do people use as reference points in British caves? E.g. you'd get through that if you can manage the vice I *might* be harvesting ideas for a song...

Enjoy... Interesting to see how the nat geo article was picked up and made into a video by a non caver

https://british-caving.org.uk/bca-membership-surveys/ We?re conducting a short survey of the membership as things slowly return to normal post Covid in order to try and plan for the year ahead and followup on some questions previously asked. In addition to the general member survey (which you...

Just a reminder that the deadline for running for elected positions on BCA council is coming up. https://british-caving.org.uk/council-elections-deadline-monday-26th-july-midnight/ If you have any questions feel free to ask. Rostam P&I Officer

Looks like the autoposting still doesn't work... Sorry! Here's the BCA advice over the roadmap out of lockdown and where caving stands. https://british-caving.org.uk/covid-roadmap-update/

Sorry to post on my personal account but will do so until the auto post works. The report is available here: https://british-caving.org.uk/demographics-report/ I'd be very interested in hearing people's takes on it. Rostam BCA P&I

The agenda is out... https://british-caving.org.uk/wiki3/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=about:documents:general_meetings:2020_agm_agenda.pdf First off apologies for not doing this from an official account (I've managed that on the dreaded fb so far). I've been rather distracted this week and real...

First off I've got to thank our outgoing P&I officer Jane, who some of you may know on this forum. She did a good job at trying to make the BCA look like something vaguely modern and had some really good ideas about reaching our membership. It's why I (Rostam Namaghi) stepped into the breach to...

Myself and A_Northerner on here went for a caving trip and during the various inane rambles the unit 'an Oxlow of rope' was used. I was wondering if anyone regularly used anything else?

Just wanted to start a fight... I jest, actually I was just wondering if cavers (that go on UKC) were representative of the population at large after hearing two people assert that cavers are naturally conservative AND naturally left wing. I think my own bubble is two pamphlets away from...

Just noted today that my renewal quote was double my old one - Caving without a local cave rescue team has been moved to the 'Pro Adventure Category'. Just a heads up for the expedition season.

So in the interests of openness, transparency and recruitment, Y&D are releasing their report to council publicly before the meeting. I hope it makes for encouraging reading and if you want to get involved we could always use more help. A really big thank you has to go out to the various...

I've written a (short) book on caving songs, it costs ?7 with all the proceeds going to the Ghar Parau Foundation. It is quite a rude book given the subject matter. If you would like to purchase one then their are physical copies available from amazon (which you get the eBook free with) and the...

I'm drawing up a survey for what's going to be a rather complicated system, however we've so far managed to map a skeleton to hang bits off for future expeditions. However when I'm drawing things up I'm only getting centreline outputs for the non mountaineye files. I'm also missing 'rock-border'...

Youth and Development Report 6th January 2018 Context for UKC: Previously the Youth and Development Officer role was a non voting member on council. There has always been some confusion as to what the exact nature of the role: this is due to the tendency for CHECC chairpeople in the past to...

Just wondering what people's impressions of taking under 18s caving is and if they had any questions on the topic? i.e. Do I need qualifications? A CRB? Just warning you this may be a prelude to whether we need a BCA ad campaign...

After some prompting by my Irish friends for lyrics to speleosongs I've compiled a short book for people to print off, laminate and then use for speleocultural purposes. Since I've made one I thought I might as well disseminate it. Please note the attachment does contain swearing. I am...

Having popped mine through a hedge recently, I was wondering what the best replacement would be?