cap n chris
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Cavers inhabit a joyful rose-tinted world where loads and loads and loads of HSE type stuff doesn't affect them*. Until it's part of a business or professional outfit, then it kicks in. Welcome to the world of diktat. It involves effort, time and money, lots of money. I shouldn't find any glee in this, but it's definitely an interesting bystanding experience to see how cavers react to things which cavers/caving in other realms have had to deal with for decades. Welcome to the party. Now cough up.
[* Many cavers appear to consider a single £1 coin to be an ingot of gold and a bridge too far for pretty nearly anything, so an annual 'routine maintenance' account running into low thousands is beyond the wildest dreams of Croesus by comparison. The wake up call is massively overdue, imo].
Perhaps cavers now understand why the activities industry charges (entirely reasonable and modest sums) for caving experiences. If you want to offer freebie caving to people crack on, but this thread should alert people somewhat. Maybe.
[* Many cavers appear to consider a single £1 coin to be an ingot of gold and a bridge too far for pretty nearly anything, so an annual 'routine maintenance' account running into low thousands is beyond the wildest dreams of Croesus by comparison. The wake up call is massively overdue, imo].
Perhaps cavers now understand why the activities industry charges (entirely reasonable and modest sums) for caving experiences. If you want to offer freebie caving to people crack on, but this thread should alert people somewhat. Maybe.
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