Cave Booking Etiquette (eg. Lost Johns')

[Pitlamp]

You make some good points there AotD. If there could be an (optional) box on the website where bookers could give an estimate of numbers if they wish, it might help fine tune what is already an excellent system. My only worry is suggesting yet more work for the CNCC's webmaster, who already does so much for the caving community in a great many ways. He's on here frequently so he'll see our discussion and I'm sure he'll consider whether such a thing is easily possible or not.

 

[alanw]

Perhaps both number and skill level? We once abandoned a trip down Lancaster Hole and did Mistral instead. The large party with many novices who had arrived just before us did offer to let us rig and descend first, but there was already one set of ropes down it and we felt that the novices would be much better off with fewer ropes on the re-belays. Who here hasn't managed to get the belay loop between their legs at least once?

 

[rm128]

Who here hasn't managed to get the belay loop between their legs at least once?

I did it myself just last night on the Lancaster entrance pitch. Easy enough to rectify with experience, but an entirely different matter for a novice.

 

[Alex]

Who here hasn't managed to get the belay loop between their legs at least once?

On tight pitches yeh, but normally it's the blooming bag that goes on the wrong side, which is a real pain in somewhere like Large.

If there could be an (optional) box on the website where bookers could give an estimate of numbers if they wish

I agree and said as much myself. I don't think it would be that difficult to add it, from what I know, if it's react then something like:

<textarea value={class.OptionalText} onChange={class.handleChange} />

Alter the API and database and bob's your uncle.

(Though I know there's more to it then that really, just taking the p)