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14th October 2018
With Dr Gina Moseley, Dr Marc Luetscher and Roz, we were later
joined by Ray Deasy.
Gina and Marc are Palaeo-climatologists, with a specific focus on
cave sites, and had accepted an invitation to visit Hallowe’en Rift and comment
on the processes ...
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13th October 2018
On
Saturday I gave a poster presentation at the BCRA Cave Science Symposium,
University of Bristol.
Evidence
for frost and ice damage of speleothems in Hallowe’en Rift, Mendip, some
initial observations.
Abstract:
Recent discoveries in H ...
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Wookey Hole, Mendip
11th October 2018 With Nick, Mike,
Jonathon, Tav, Alex and Duncan
Nick, Mike and Jonathon
at the sharp end, digging and filling buckets, then moving the filled buckets
and occasional rocks to Tav who then facilitated dispatch. Alex hauling the ...
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9th October 2018
Solo (not really digging though!) Dragged some kit including water and a brush to An Unexpected Development. Going to have another cleaning speleothems session next week sometime. Took the camera along too, just for something else to carry. Actually, ...
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It was 10 years ago today
10 years ago today that I uploaded my first caving video to my YouTube channel. It now has 130 caving videos and is the most popular caving channel on YouTube.In the first twelve months I had 1.5K views.In the last twelve months I've had 9.3M caving vi ...
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6th October 2018
With Jonathon
A much-depleted team due to work commitments,
injuries and malaise. To cap it all, it was raining and rather chilly.
We discussed our options while getting
changed in the shed and, as Jon hadn’t really had the opportunity to l ...
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Wookey Hole, Mendip
4th
October 2018
With Roz, Jonathon, Duncan
and Mike
A mellow evening. Jon and
Mike rotated the digging, Roz transferred the filled buckets to the skip,
Duncan hauled the skip up the slope and I emptied the filled buckets. The procedure
was r ...
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Keith’s Cavers in The Search for the Missing Potholer – Part Three
I guess I could be described as a lifelong learner. I enjoy setting myself challenges, acquiring new skills and working outside my comfort zone. I also take pleasure in problem solving. Making videossatisfies my creative urges, and allows me to experim ...
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29th September 2018
With Jonathon, Alex, Tav and Ray Deasy.
Another antipodean visitor to the cave, Ray,
back for an update, his last visit was earlier this year in April.
Jonathon and Alex set-off with the ladders to
rig the climb down the rift and cont ...
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INCIDENT 59/2018 – Sep. 27th Thu. 11.04hrs – Gordale Beck, North of Mastiles Lane, Malham Moor, North Yorkshire – Mountain Rescue
A diabetic student (m,14), on a field visit, collapsed, falling face-down in the beck. He was recovered by companions, then regained consciousness. Yorkshire Ambulance Service first requested CRO’s help in locating him, via PhoneFind, but this di ...
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Wookey Hole, Mendip
25th September 2018: with Snablet, Roz and Tav
An impromptu trip after
Snablet’s enquiry “are we doing anything tonight?” following up some beer
fuelled conversation we’d had on Saturday evening at the Hidden Earth
conference in Churchill.
We ...
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Keith’s Cavers in The Search for the Missing Potholer – Part Two
In part one I wrote about how the idea for Keith's Cavers was born and how it was key to get the opening credits sequence perfect, but at that stage I didn't have an idea for the video. It was just like being a kid at school who has spent weeks creatin ...
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Keith’s Cavers in The Search for the Missing Potholer – Part One
In 2017 at Hidden Earth I won the video salon competition, although the Hidden Earth website still credits my video to 'The Dudley'. As a winner I was asked if anything needed changing and I requested that the correct credit to be given, but that was o ...
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22nd September 2018
With Pete “Snablet” McNab, Pete Bolt,
Jonathon, Duncan, Nick and Alex
Snablet’s on a week-long visit from New
Zealand, couldn’t let him miss the opportunity for a digging trip.
At the cave, Jonathon, Nick, Duncan and Alex
set-off to t ...
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Alert only – Sep. 22nd Sat. 19.32hrs – Ingleborough, North Yorkshire – Alert only
A father reported that his daughter – ‘an experienced walker’ – had become separated from the rest of her party on Ingleborough. She had not been heard from for an hour and was believed not to have reached the summit, so the fat ...
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Scientists find stable sea levels during last interglacial
The magnitude and trajectory of sea-level change during the Last Interglacial, more specifically Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e, is uncertain. To date the consensus view has been that sea-level may have been six to nine meters above present sea level. H ...
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Alert only – Sep. 9th Sun. 10.50hrs – Three Peaks walk (Horton in Ribblesdale), North Yorkshire – Alert only
CRO duty controllers were advised that a Three Peaks walker (m, 46), last seen at Ribblehead at 12.00 noon the previous day, had not returned to his car at Horton in Ribblesdale. All local hotels were phoned, in case the missing walker had stayed the ...
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8th September 2018
With Jonathon and Alex
A small team again, mostly due to injuries
and work commitments, but still an effective group.
At the top of the rift, I decided to try out
the new cows-tails and shunt on the descent (and, later ascent) but, co ...
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