The loss of Mike Wooding is a very sad blow to British caving. Mike was a very hard caver and diver who made many significant explorations back in the seventies (Far Waters in GG, Ingleborough Cave extensions, Wooding's Passage in Keld Head, etc.) and in the last couple of years or so (digging with others in Small Mammal, as well as swinging about on ropes in GG MainChamber/ Rat Hole).
I have been asked by Fish (the Chairman of the Cave Diving Group) to post this message here, because he was a regular contributor/ correspondent on this forum (aka 'Mike W'). He was also one of the nicest, most polite and amiable blokes you could wish to meet - as well as being a mine of information on the caves of the Dales.
No doubt many of you will wish to know of the funeral arrangements. Fish will post these on the CDG website, once they have been finalised.
Scoff
(CDG - Northern Section)