Win Warmbac Long wetsocks!

[Pegasus]

CAPTION COMPETITION!

Win a pair of Warmbac long neoprene wetsocks!
(Thank you Warmbac!)

It's pouring down in the Dales today, so time for a caption competition to cheer the day

To enter, post your best captions for this photo of Mark Burkey in Valley Entrance.

Thanks to Bartek Biela for the photo - taken the day this was happening:
In 1974 legendary cave diver Geoff Yeadon was the first to pass the 168 metre sump upstream from Rowten Pot. He discovered the impressive 40 metre high Aquamole Aven. Geoff retired from cave diving in 1997. Aquamole Aven was finally connected to the surface in June 2002.
A trip beginning by descending Aquamole Pot, as it is now named, to exit at Valley Entrance is now a classic through trip for cave divers and is considered to be a somewhat of a right of passage for the new generation of underwater cave explorers. In spite of his underground discoveries in Kingsdale Valley it was a trip that Geoff Yeadon had never been able to do.
However, on Sunday the 6th August 2023, Geoff supported by a team of over 20 cavers and cave divers, was persuaded out of retirement to complete for the first time this classic descent and cave dive. Keith Edwards made a film of the day - Return to Aquamole has been selected for the International Film Competition at Kendal Mountain Festival.

3 entries per forum member.

Shortlist to be chosen by me, then over to random.org.

Closing time/date 10pm on Sunday 27th October.

Good luck!!
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[Pegasus]

More on Kendal Mountain Festival and the film here:

Kendal Mountain Festival - Underground Session - Fri 22nd November

Save the date folks 😁

ukcaving.com

 

[Katie]

On it's first ever trip Mark was most impressed with the new descender from Petzl, the Super-Avanti-Cragalistic-expeditionocious

 

[Pitlamp]

Mary Poppins invents revolutionary technique for ascending big pitches!

 

[Pitlamp]

Those cave piranhas don't half make you jump when they nip your toes!

 

[Pitlamp]

Petzl tests new safety device as backup for novices using the Stop descender.

 

[Steve Clark]

IRATA Level 4 - Advanced Photoshop Technique

 

[Steve Clark]

Following the rejection of the proposal to install chains in Simpson Pot, the CNCC are pleased to announce the introduction of a new Umbrella Descent Workshop. This innovative technique developed by Mark Burkey alleviates the need for any SRT gear or resin anchors for pull-through trips and will be a game-changer for 21st Century caving in the Dales.

 

[cavingbiker]

Up! Up! and Away!

 

[cavingbiker]

This competition certainly put the wind up Mark.

 

[Space Doubt Caver]

Single Umbrella Technique,

The Airflow is strong in this chamber,

Exhibit A - a yellow cave kite,

 

[Cantclimbtom]

The new diet of low calorie pies had delivered brilliant results, until he got caught by a freak gust of wind and was never seen again

 

[Ian Ball]

Like in the movies a horse is about to appear

 

[caving_fox]

We're not in Texas anymore

 

[rm128]

Suddenly, Mary Poppins was regretting her strict diet of pies and bananas.

 

[Tim Pickering]

'Local caver celebrates first place win in the caucus race.' Wonderland Times, Nov. 1865

 

[dougle89]

Due to the heinous act tucking his suit legs in his wellies, the flatulence could only go up up and away

 

[Samouse1]

CRO didn’t appreciate the excuse of “But I couldn't let George have one up on me!”

 

[Babyhagrid]

Bombs away!

 

[JAA]

Try as he might Dick Van Dyke just couldn’t persuade his latest Nanny friend to start cave diving, however much he and Geoff claimed it wasn’t that bad!