Muddiest photo challenge.
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Cantclimbtom
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Was that caving/mine exploring or were you having a mud-pie fight?
cap n chris
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None of the above are even close. Kev Speight/Mike Waterworth et al are waaay ahead with their awesome pushing of a mud (literally) sump in Upper Flood (I will let them link to the relevant footage). Meanwhile for something considerably less muddy here's footage from nearby in the same cave but not quite as impressive..
That makes it 8 (7 was this title)
I know, but they are fun shots, really made me smile this morning as I stare out the window at the flippin rain....which I suppose is making mud somewhere 😁
Leclused
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This picture was taken during a dig session in de D40 cave in France in 2020. This spot in now known as "La Jonction du Scarabé" and gives access to the underground river the Rigotte between S6 and S2. My profile photo is made in the river between s6 and s2. As you can see I'm wearing a clean oversuit on my profile photo 
That was not the oversuit that I used to crawl through the Jonction.
BTW, there are two cavers on the photo Me included
That was not the oversuit that I used to crawl through the Jonction.BTW, there are two cavers on the photo
Me included 
PeteHall
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Glad you pointed that outBTW, there are two cavers on the photo
tomferry
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This is a seriously good photo !This picture was taken during a dig session in de D40 cave in France in 2020. This spot in now known as "La Jonction du Scarabé" and gives access to the underground river the Rigotte between S6 and S2. My profile photo is made in the river between s6 and s2. As you can see I'm wearing a clean oversuit on my profile photo
BTW, there are two cavers on the photo
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cap n chris
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There's 3 cavers in this snippet!
TomSouthCoast
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Muddy Hell, Upper Flood, 10 years ago.
Kev Speight told me about an easy win we could get in Upper Flood. We travelled to a ‘niche’ part of the cave.
We used our wellies to bail water. This created a thick mud soup. We were joined by Helen Jones (?) and Mike Waterworth. Mud soup thickened. A space emerged for us to push through into new passage. Explored short stretch of new passage. When we made our way back through, the level of mud soup had risen to form a mud duck. This video was taken on my camera by Kev of Mike returning through the duck. It was as bad as it looks in the video. Camera did not survive the mud.
Kev Speight told me about an easy win we could get in Upper Flood. We travelled to a ‘niche’ part of the cave.
We used our wellies to bail water. This created a thick mud soup. We were joined by Helen Jones (?) and Mike Waterworth. Mud soup thickened. A space emerged for us to push through into new passage. Explored short stretch of new passage. When we made our way back through, the level of mud soup had risen to form a mud duck. This video was taken on my camera by Kev of Mike returning through the duck. It was as bad as it looks in the video. Camera did not survive the mud.
TomSouthCoast
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YouTube tells me that over 3000 people watched that video. Turns out that 2.5k of those views were from a link posted on a very specialist website, where people REALLY love mud…..