Inside Scotland's Ancient Bone Caves

Came across these old Open University geology field mapping programmes on YouTube. OU Chapel-le-Dale OU Mendip Great flares!

These photos have been passed on to me by someone who doesn't use this forum. They show holes drilled into the bedrock of Spare Rib, part of the original entrance series to Ogof Draenen. The holes apear to have loops of wire/cord of some sort sticking out of them. I've been asked to ask on here...

I'm in the market for a new helmet and looking for recommendations. Nothing wrong with my current helmet, other than it's now more than 10 years old and so outside of the manufactures recommend life span. As it's an Ecrin Roc, I'm sure it still has years of life left in it but the rescue team...

Are there any clubs planning trips to Europe next year (or beyond), that would be open to non members joining them? I'd like to go back to the Berger as I haven't been there for a very long time - 30 years! - and no one on that trip reached the bottom as it was too wet. I'd be very open to...

Snapper falls into Hull Pot! Westmorland Gazette

It was only a matter of time! Brynmawr Caving Club Facebook Group A few small caves were broken into when this cutting was first made, during construction of the original road. Another, slightly more extensive cave was discovered in the late 90s/early 2000s(?), that goes under the houses on...

HowNOT2 pull test AS and (briefly) Clown hangers. Cave Anchors Made Out Of Dyneema???

The Rescue: 54 Hours Under The Ground A documentary about George Linnane's rescue from OFD last November, is being shown on BBC Wales only, at 8pm on Monday 18th. I assume it'll be available on iPlayer the next day and should get a wider BBC showing at dome point.

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Last winter's floods have made some changes inside Porth Yr Ogof. The floor of the main stream passage, between the Great Bedding Cave and the large aven area at Entrance I, has been scoured out and it is now possible to walk through upright, in chest deep water. Previously the water here had...

I see from the latest issue of Descent that the depth for OFD has gone over the 300m mark again, with new finds in OFD 3. The vertical range is now 312.5m. The long quoted depth was 308m but that was reduced to 291m after a resurvey published in 2014. Now, climbing in OFD 3 has added height to...

I recently wrote a caver's version of the classic Four Yorkshiremen sketch, for a club newsletter that is yet to be published. Another forum post (https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=26351.msg321740;topicseen#new) mentioned the sad passing of Tim Brooke-Taylor, one of the writers of the...

Treat all fixed aids in this cave with suspicion. Some no doubt date back to the original exploration in the late sixties. One side of the chain ladder on the Second Pot has now broken. Below is a photo of the ladder, which I believe was taken a couple of years ago, before the breakage. There...

I'm looking for a good sorce of information on the development of the Llangattock Cave System. Hopefully something giving a nice overview, like the papers on Draenen by Farrant and Simms, published in Cave and Karst Science in 2011. I've read the relevant chapter in Limestones and Caves of...

Thinking of going to Llygad Llwchwr 2 on Sunday and I know it acts as a flood overflow to the main Llygad Llwchwr stream so my question is, will it be safe, given the forecast for thunder storms? Only been there once before, in very dry weather. Given that the area near the entrance is quite...

I've tried to post to Welsh Wezzit four times now over a couple of hours, using two different browsers and each time, when I press POST, the page just goes blank and nothing happens. If I press refresh, I get a message that says I've already uploaded my reply but when I check, there's nothing...

Minion, Trig Gledhill and I recently attempted to bolt climb to a possible passage, part way up a wall in a large chamber, in a cave somewhere in South Wales! Rope and crabs donated by UkCaving were used but on this occasion we were thwarted by a lack of time and poor rock. There are actually...

Just got back from the Paperless Cave Surveying Course held at the SWCC over the weekend. It was intensive and often frustrating but ultimately I, for one, learned a lot and I'm sure those who were savvier with all things tech, picked up even more. Many thanks to Andrew, Wookey, Duncan etc. for...

Someone from the ITV Wales News team will be "Venturing into Wales' deepest cave." The program starts at 6.00 tonight. It was mentioned on the SWCC blog that there were two lots of filming done in the cave recently.