Live streamed talk: Caving in the North York Moors - Sun 31st Jan

[GarDouth]

With lockdown boredom well and truly setting in, we have decided to entertain ourselves by putting on a live-streamed caving talk this Sunday.

This hour-long talk will provide a pictorial tour of all aspects of caving in the North York Moors, including the Windypits and the evolution of the North York Moors from a region where no active phreatic caves were known, to one sporting a 3.8km system, explored by our group over the last 14 years. We will include pictures and a survey from the 1km extensions made in 2020, as well as a discussion about the possibilities for other such systems elsewhere in the region.

Sunday 31st January - 7:30pm

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com//YorkCavingClub

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yorkcavingclub

Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/yorkcavingclub

The talk will also be available after the live broadcast.

We know everyone has online-fatigue at the moment, so we?re not expecting huge enthusiasm at this stage of lockdown. However, we?ve had such a good time putting this together and learning all the technology, and if we manage to entertain a few very bored cavers in the process (and maybe even persuade others to have a go at something similar) then that?s even better.

 

[tamarmole]

Really looking forward to this.  Britain's finest caving region!

 

[Fulk]

Sounds good . . . but when you said 'where no active phreatic caves were known' did you mean 'where no active vadose caves were known'?

 

[mikem]

Maybe it's going to be live from the stream(way)...

 

[Cavematt]

I'm nervous now... Tamarmole, I suspect you know more about caving in the North York Moors than me! Better make sure I get my facts right

 

[mikem]

The Tamar is the Cornish / Devon border - neither renown for its river caves...

 

[Cavematt]

True, but I believe Tamarmole may have a claim to fame that makes him somewhat of an expert on the North York Moors too... I'll let him elaborate if he wants to.

 

[tamarmole]

In a previous life I failed to dig my way into Excalibur 

 

[tim.rose2]

Being an internet thicky who's never watched a live stream on youtube before can someone explain what I have to do to join this on Sunday evening (and watch on computer rather than phones etc.).
Cheers.

 

[Cavematt]

Just go to one of the pages above (see links above) 3-4 minutes before the 7:30pm start time. If you are not on Facebook then you can use the YouTube link. Once the livestream has started there should be a really obvious link to it from any of those pages. We'll commence the live broadcast about five minutes ahead of the start time with a holding image and a countdown time so you will know you are in the right place 

 

[ChrisJC]

We know everyone has online-fatigue at the moment, so we?re not expecting huge enthusiasm at this stage of lockdown.

Err are you mad?, this will be hugely popular!!

Chris.

 

[psychocrawler]

If this is anything like the talk that Matt and Gary did for the NPC recently it will be outstanding.

 

[paul]

If this is anything like the talk that Matt and Gary did for the NPC recently it will be outstanding.

Agreed.

 

[Cavematt]

For those of you who saw the NPC talk, Im afraid there will be a reasonable amount of repetition in the talk tomorrow; but there will be a lot of other information about all the caves elsewhere in the North York Moors too so worth tuning in for the first 20 minutes at least

 

[Pegasus]

This evening folks 

 

[Speleofish]

Will it be available for viewing later?

 

[mikem]

Says so in the original post, although I know other talks that have intended to be, but recording facilities failed.

 

[GarDouth]

Yes, it should be recorded by Facebook and YouTube and appear shortly after. If not, we have a rehearsal that was recorded earlier today.

 

[maxb727]

We?re watching here [emoji3060]

 

[Ian Ball]

Is that Clarkson?!