Just bought my ticket for the weekend. Was hoping for a bit of extra info about camping. I'm bringing the camper and wondered what time I can park up or do I have to wait until 8pm to register and then go find a spot?

We (Brynmawr Caving Club) had one of our regular Zoom meetings tonight and I was down for the quiz. One of the rounds I came up with was an anagrams round. Sixteen Welsh cave names in anagram form. I won't say what the highest score was but I thought it might be fun to post it here and see if...

A few months ago, two of our members (BCC) were preparing to enter Ogof Draenen (the original entrance  8) ) when they fell into conversation with some members of Gwent Mountaineering Club. The GMC members mentioned how they often come across holes in the ground as they wander over the South...

Hi all, Has anyone got or can point me towards a map that has the DYO and OFD passages superimposed on it to show the extent of them and where in relation to surface features they lie? I don't need anything super accurate, I just want to be able to show where they are for a talk I'm giving on...

The Nant Llammarch valley that is passed over on the way to Gellifelen and the usual parking spot for Ogof Clogwyn in the Clydach Gorge was recently marred by some scumbags that felt it was a good place to flytip some beds and bags of rubbish. It is not an easy place to get to and Brynmawr...

Not the famous one now in a box in Cardiff museum but one found whilst up in the Fault Series in OFD1 at the weekend. One of our party spotted this skeleton under a rock. Unfortunately I didn't think to put something in for scale but I would say it was 8 to 10 inches end to end. I assume that it...

I visited a cave up north a fair few years ago. Quite a well known cave where the entrance is in a rock outcrop in a river bed. The river is very prone to flooding and can seal off the entrance very quickly. The cave is very sizable inside. Try as I might, I can't remember the name of the cave...

So a chap in our South Wales club has recently taken delivery of "Not For The Faint Hearted" and was wondering if there were to be a South Wales equivalent, what caves/trips would be included. So, I thought I'd open it up here to see if we could come up with "50 harder caving trips in South...

This article from the BBC is pretty good without any of the sensationalism that we've seen in recent articles in Wales.

Is anyone digging over Llangattock at the moment? Just wondering if CADWR worries has stopped people from digging.

Any advice on how to clean a wet lens? I've tried all sorts of cloths but nothing seems to be able to dry and clean a lens when it gets wet, either from immersion (waterproof TG4), rinsing mud off or just what I assume must be sweat. I'm thinking that the only thing that will really work...

Is it just me or are other people having trouble getting to access the BCA website and hosted websites?

The pot had again been filled in by a big rockfall but has been cleared by members of Brynmawr Caving Club this weekend. Wasn't an easy task as there was a particularly big boulder to shift. Anyway, if interested, there are some pictures and a short write-up on the Brynmawr Caving Club Facebook...

The nightmare of the journey up from Exeter was forgotten when I walked into the house to find a parcel waiting for me with the brilliant Northern Caves book inside. It's a hefty tome weighing in at 472 pages. Full of great descriptions with full colour photographs from some of Britain's best...

I've had this photo on my hard drive for years taken by an unknown photographer. It was uploaded to my Cave Database (now defunct) that I created back in 2000 and ran for a few years. I come across it every so often and then wonder where it might be as I don't recognise it. Anyway,this has a...

We were getting close to our destination now, the Northern Lights in Ogof Fynnon Ddu2. We were three members of Brynmawr Caving Club, Myself, Rob and Mick, and had got to a point where there was a squeeze up through a dug out section over boulders and under a low section of roof. Mick and I had...

Invited to set up an information stall on the Market Square in Brynmawr today. So an information board with photographs, kit, surveys and leaflets has gone down well with the local townsfolk with a good deal of interest shown. A lot of people were surprised to see what is under their feet.

Can I, or anyone else with a photo to hand, start a Welsh Wezzit?

Anyone coming to South Wales to the BCRC conference at Penwyllt this weekend able to bring a book with them?  :-[ Many Thanks, Mudman

The BBC have included a caver group in their latest 'ident' series. You can see it here: ! No longer available I'm sure that's Goon from the Grampian in there.