What else do you do apart from caving?

[Brains]

Its valid for me, whats wrong with not knowing how you got to bed?

Used to do a fair bit of climbing, with associated walking and camping - using pitons and an ice hammer to pitch the tent hasnt happend for a while tho. Reckon its time I started doing some more. My body is the wrong shape for a bike, but just right for hiding beer and whisky.

 

[cap n chris]

Aha! What's to say that the bike isn't the wrong shape for your body? 

 

[ChrisB]

Hey chrisb! respect, any monskier in my books a f..king legend, u any good?

Thanks Simon - been monoskiing nearly 20 years, but a week a year isn't really enough to get good on. Great fun though.

Read an article a couple of years ago saying that monoskiers are all 40something, with beards and one-piece dayglo suits 

8)  I'm famous!

All still true except the 40something.

 

[martinr]

BDSM

:spank:

 

[whitelackington]

When I wos sixteen and in the Air Cadets, I became a glider pilot, scary stuff.
Not done it since I wos a teenager, wouldn't mind doing it again but bit old for
Air Cadets now, probably :icon_321:

Did a spot of "CANYONING"

first time for most of us, in September, 2006, in The Ardeche, our chosen venue was in granite, rather exciting

 

[Tree Monkey]

I hear that ' Canyoning'  can be dangerous!!   I also hear it can kill people!! :read:

 

[andymorgan]

Canyoning sounds great, like caving without a roof. I have considered taking it up in the summers.

 

[cap n chris]

I hear that ' Canyoning'  can be dangerous!!   I also hear it can kill people!! :read:

OMFG! Sounds like they should take up something safe instead. Caving? - no-one ever gets hurt doing that, do they?

 

[Tree Monkey]

When I'm not caving, I'm usually digging somewhere on mendip!  No prizes to where though.  Been invited to other club digs as well lately, there is a lot of potential out there.  Keep digging.

 

[lauraw]

Canyoning sounds great, like caving without a roof. I have considered taking it up in the summers.

Do, it's great fun. Canyoning is great because you can abseil down waterfalls and jump off stuff that you just wouldn't do in a cave because it would get you killed  I go every year to Mallorca canyoning and it's great.
Apart from that I also go hillwalking and am hoping to do more outdoor climbing next year. I also like flying kites.
Other hobbies include exciting things like reading, japanese woodblock printing and visiting megalithic tombs.

Laura

 

[cap n chris]

Congratulations, Laura, on your ability to create a sentence combining the words "exciting" and "reading" and "Japanese woodblock printing". Not having any previous experience of JWP I am ill versed and unable to guess what, precisely, is exciting about it. Perhaps you'd care to enlighten me.

 

[graham]

It is good to note, however, Chris that you do find visiting megalithic tombs exciting. 

 

[Peter Burgess]

Congratulations, Laura, on your ability to create a sentence combining the words "exciting" and "reading" and "Japanese woodblock printing". Not having any previous experience of JWP I am ill versed and unable to guess what, precisely, is exciting about it. Perhaps you'd care to enlighten me.

You haven't lived, Chris. JWP is an ancient form of martial art, like macrame, or origame. The UK has a dozen world class black belts at the last count.

 

[cap n chris]

Yes, megalithic stuff is gurt exciting; I realised after posting my jolly comment that JWP might be fascinating and that perhaps I'm just being a Philistine. Sorry, Laura.

 

[ditzy 24//7]

lauraw

Canyoning sounds like great fun 

 

[whitelackington]

It can be extremly dangerous

 

[AndyF]

It can be extremly dangerous

I've had several terrifying experiences canyoning, and can vouch that it is very hazardous. Some people who shall remain nameless had a monster epic in the vercors, by arriving at the head of a 120m pitch with a 90m rope. Not good.

They ended up abbing down to a tiny ledge, getting 6 people on it then pulling the rope down. No belay of course, then a solo traverse with 70m exposure to another ledge with a small twiggy tree that get them down onto a near vertical mud scree slope.....

 

[darkplaces]

Manage all the tearaways on www.c**tplaces.co.uk   

Work as a Senior Systems Engineer for the Business Section of an ISP, sometimes bugger all hours a day sometimes 36hrs straight in some strange places

I like to explode things, bomb making, bright lights, things that go whoooosh BANG! 

When not doing anything underground related I like to do a bit of travelling now and then, I been to New York City Twice, Washington, Toronto, Up and down France, Spain, Germany, That hilly little country between France and Spain, accross Norway, etc. Like to visit museums... So if you like what you see contact me via www.cavedate.co.uk

 

[Les W]

I like to explode things, bomb making, bright lights, things that go whoooosh BANG! 

That's you on several government and special branch lists then, look out for dark cars and unexpected clicks on the phone line. 

 

[cap n chris]

arriving at the head of a 120m pitch with a 90m rope.

Sounds well organised.

Adds to my general unease about going on any trip organised by anyone else.