Ken Chapel (s) ?

[JAA]

Having forgotten to ask Alan Speight today, does anyone know what became of Ken who used to frequent the YSS 20 odd years ago? I suspect probably long dead now.
I seem to remember he had a complicated laundry system involving barrels of detergent in the boot of his car and bumpy roads, combined with boiling his underpants in a saucepan in the YSS kitchen… Also demonstrating the fine art of using an upturned tea cup as an ashtray as “no one notices the stains that way young man”

 

[Pitlamp]

Ken has passed away. He was one of life’s characters and a CPC member for decades. Email me directly if you want more.

 

[Alan Sp8]

Ken started using the YSS during the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 ( the YSS hut stayed open whilst the rest of the caving huts in the dales closed their doors )
His laundry habits are legendary as was his cabbage diet.
The smell from his laundry drying on the radiators and the smell of the cooking cabbage was a smell to behold??!?

 

[damian]

Definitely a character! I remember the cabbage and (huge) underpants on radiators all too well. I also lost count of the number of times he told us "Cracking trip but you want a party of at least 8 for it, though". Didn't know about the boot being his washing machine though