What caving related thing did you do today?

[Loki]

Walked up pic d’anie past the tete sauvage and SC3. Like being under a giant lens today in some kind of perverse

dehydration experiment 😂 . Did meet some French caversputting new flooring in their gear hut up there which looked like an even greater challenge in the heat.

 

[JAshley73]

Today, more clean up from our weekend family vertical/trip.

We took a "short" trip into a small multi-level cave, and dropped to the lower level. All but my 6-year-old son rappelled, and climbed out. For him, we bult a lower/3:1-haul system. Wayyyy too much work for the amount of caving done, but it was an OK time otherwise. Shown is my wife climbing out of the "hole" from the lower level, and then me, manning the haul-system...

Side-note: Do y'all in the UK/Europe have to decontaminate gear for the bat-borne "White Nose Syndrome" or us that just a USA thing?

 

[Pete K]

Carried on working on a new shaft lid. In hindsight, it was definitely too hot to be welding in thick safety gear today!

 

[wellyjen]

Side-note: Do y'all in the UK/Europe have to decontaminate gear for the bat-borne "White Nose Syndrome" or us that just a USA thing?

White Nose fungus is here, but doesn't seem to cause our bats the problems that it does in the US. They seem to be more resistant to its spread, or effects. No gear decontamination needed yet, other than washing the copious quantities of mud off, if you cave in Derbyshire!
https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/threats-to-bats/white-nose-syndrome/white-nose-syndrome-in-europe

 

[JAshley73]

White Nose fungus is here, but doesn't seem to cause our bats the problems that it does in the US. They seem to be more resistant to its spread, or effects. No gear decontamination needed yet, other than washing the copious quantities of mud off, if you cave in Derbyshire!
https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/threats-to-bats/white-nose-syndrome/white-nose-syndrome-in-europe

You all are very fortunate in many aspects. WNS has been terrible for bat populations, caused the closure of many caves for around 15 years & counting, causes seasonal closures of many caves, and forces us to "de-con" our gear after trips.

(Do-conning gear for a family of 4 is NOT fun...)

 

[Samouse1]

Marked up all my ropes after measuring and cutting them on Saturday. I don’t like shrinkage.

 

[Leclused]

Walked up pic d’anie past the tete sauvage and SC3. Like being under a giant lens today in some kind of perverse View attachment 19838dehydration experiment 😂 . Did meet some French caversputting new flooring in their gear hut up there which looked like an even greater challenge in the heat.

To the right of this you could have visited the altitude camp of the Anialarra expeditions that were going on at that moment. I'v been there many times during august-september expeditions. However the last years I'm involved in another exploration in France.

 

[braveduck]

Started making a 5 new digging nets . These may be the last ones I make !

 

[PeteHall]

Found a use for some old wheelie-bin wheels that I've had kicking around for about a decade, and welded up a bottle trolly for carrying kit up to Wookey.
After a minor modification on site with snoopy loops, I couldn't fault it.

Thanks to @Duncan Price for the inspiration

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Too bloody knackered to do anything after yesterday.

 

[braveduck]

See my thread then on your yesterdays post !

 

[Pitlamp]

You'll be on a skateboard next Pete!

 

[alanw]

First I helped shift the scaff and boards that were left after the replacement of the tube at Stream Passage. Then I walked to a dig and searched through the spoil. We found Neolithic pottery, some bones, and I found a 6000 year old chert scraper (about 2cm in size).

 

[JasonC]

Then I walked to a dig and searched through the spoil. We found Neolithic pottery, some bones, and I found a 6000 year old chert scraper (about 2cm in size).

I'm impressed... but how did you arrive at that age?

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Trying to recover after digging all day.

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

 

[alanw]

I'm impressed... but how did you arrive at that age?

So I was informed by someone who knows more than I do.

It's an approximation to the Neolithic timespan.

More here

 

[Badlad]

Looking at the capping vids, clearly someone who doesn't do much or know much about capping. If they did they'd be sure to get their feet out of the firing line for a start.

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

Looking at the capping vids, clearly someone who doesn't do much or know much about capping. If they did they'd be sure to get their feet out of the firing line for a start.

yeah, it's been a long time, could have used a rubber mat or carpet too, but was just having a bit of fun, for next time feet will be out of the way