Still using a steel D maillon for the harness. I have several unused in the cupboard, so probably enough to see me to caving retirement. Not averse to the various locking krab style ones. Every one I know who has switched has not gone back. I've never had problems with D maillons distorting...

Advanced level.

Peakdistrictcaving.info shows no site with "craig" as part of the name. Are you sure this is in the Peak District?

I've thought that Belper sounds like a particularly unpleasant intestinal disorder in cattle, which given the moderate rumbling sound heard there, may actually be the case. Stand back, that cows got a bad case of Belper!

Perhaps it was Baldrick in that day making the coffee.

There still is. http://www.customduo.co.uk/Pitlamp-modules-1/ Maybe not drop in, but modifiable. Mentions Speleotechnics in the same paragraph as Oldham, so it implies they will fit.

By Georges Méliès - Roger-Viollet, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3741590

They can turn the lights off for a lunar eclipse.

With the exception of lighting, it has been marginal gains with most caving equipment since the late '80's. In some cases, it has gone backwards. For example, PVC oversuits being much harder to get. The over/undersuit + wellies + srt combination was pretty well set over the course of that decade.

The safety section of the guide has been amended to replace a dead link and make it a bit clearer who to get in touch with regarding dodgy belays, artificial, or natural. Speaking of natural belays, the symbol used for tree belays has been replaced with a creative commons one that looks more...

Sid Perou's film about this rescue here: https://caving-library.org.uk/collections/sid-perou-film-40.php

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Then use the Braemoor French caving glossary to translate the caving specific words in to the appropriate English ones. https://braemoor.co.uk/crolles/vocab.shtml

Generally yes. Numbers on trips vary from two, or three to low teens, with an average of five, or six. Members and guests. This is out of a membership of over 40, with maybe a dozen most regularly active. Having a reasonable idea of numbers in the run up, we can alter plans. Perhaps scaling back...

CreweCPC plan a day trip, or weekend, roughly every other weekend. Done in advance by the meets secretary, up to a year ahead. We disorganise things by email list. Currently use groups.io, who imported all our users and data from the Yahoo group we had been using since 2003 when they shut down...

And the chocolate in the dump does get replaced regularly!

In practice, 55m was enough, but the Peak key holders recommend 60.

To add. Probably the minimum I'd take for a pull through from White River to the Trenches would be something like 30m and a 60m, or three of 30m ropes. That way, if a 30m got stuck on Fever Pitch, you could get down Terminator and Ventilator on the 60m. If the 60m, or two 30's stuck on...

It's always a good idea to ask. The rope lengths are the ones with circles around them, not the pitch lengths. So for Fever, Ventilator and Terminator you'll need 30m, 60m and 40m of rope respectively. Which could be made up of any combination you like, depending on how much spare rope you are...

Following the recent rebolting work on the Ventilator pitches in Peak. we paid a visit and have updated the topo. We also checked out the Moosetrap series to the top of the third pitch and updated that part with what's actually there. The ventilator pitch rigging now shows the fixed traverse...