Great report. Looking forward to more :)

Southern Stream got a lot easier after the Tim Flanagan rescue in 1981. A lot of passage tidying done to assist the recovery.

A new work which is a pastiche of the original will not infringe copyright. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/30A

Combe de Fer, just south of Villard de Lans in the Vercor is an excellent vertical system. You will find a survey here. https://www.cosif.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/STAGE-EFS-10-2004-Equipier-de-club.pdf Used to be a small cabin at the entrance (years ago) which is good for a base, with...

Luck or planning? Had the geo risk been in an area with high consequence for any significant over-break then presumably some mitigation measures would have been employed, such as compensation grouting, such as was used extensively for construction of Crossrail and Jubilee Line under London in...

Way back, 1970’s, two of us who were then in 6th form at school persuaded a teacher to take us on a caving weekend. getting the teacher involved meant we Had access to a minibus which he would drive. The two of us were the only ones with caving “experience”, which amounted to a few trips with...

Had many stays at the cottages (Cerberus) in the 70’s with Portsmouth Polytechnic Caving Club. Great times. Shame they had to go.

Original Gd 5 survey trip, surveying from Micron to Restaurant, was done as a ”day trip”. 25hrs approx.

Great job!

Great news. Good Luck with the venture.

That’s great langcliffe. Thanks for the link to LUSS 4. Great to know that our “possibly ascending hole“ actually went into something. That leaves the right hand branch at the end of Carrot as still unresolved. The little chamber we dug into at the end would have provided some limited scope for...

My recollection of the low canal is not pleasant. We were able to get into the lower part of the canal but did not push it very much due to restricted air space. I believe that others had been able to progress further previously. The bedding plane to the right however was comparatively pleasant...

While clearing out some of my old notes I came across the attached survey, based on an extract from the ULSA survey, with minor additions following some digging by CSS members in 1982/83. This was originally published with an article in the CSS Newsletter Vol 25, p 99. The area was visited by...

Very sad. Spent a lot of time under Llangattock with him in the 80’s, but normally struggled to keep up with him. In addition to caving he was also responsible for maintaining and upgrading most of the plumbing and heating systems in Whitewalls for about 20 years.

Most of the more elaborate claims for the capability of divining are difficult/impossible to credit, however its use to identify simple anomalies close to the ground surface seems to work more often than not, using simple bent coat hangers held loosely in the hand so they are free to swing. Any...

No idea how dousing rods work but I have used simple bent coat hanger type dousing rods in the past with success. I recall using them in the past to check an area at the rear of my house to check for buried services before excavating 1.0m to create a patio. Got a consistent response on one line...

Great account. Surveying terminated due to shivering! Been there. :)

Brilliant to hear of a breakthrough at Fairy Caves. Well done. Not been caving for a long time but still take a keen interest from the armchair.