We can’t hope to bring you every story, but there are plenty of caving and mining blogs out there you can browse at your leisure – so have a read through some of the best! If you know of a blog you’d like us to add to this page please let us know.
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7th December 2017
With Brockers, Jonathon, Tav, Nick, Duncan and Mike. Duncan at the end of Another Emotional Journey, digging in the sloppy, sticky bit; I was clearing the bags and continuing the assault on the slab of rock, it did succumb ...
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OFD1 in an evening
Team: Andrea Jessup, Matt Jones, Paul Tarrant, Claire VivianThis was a quick evening trip to introduce Andrea to OFD1 and let Matt have a chance to practice his routefinding skills on his second visit to this part of the system. Fun was had, including ...
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2nd December 2017
With Jake, Jonathon and Brockers. A smaller team today, after some discussion and shifting about; Jake digging, I was assisting, Brockers was on the slippery slope and Jonathon at the top of the slope where the bags and rock were stashed ...
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Incident 87/2017 – Dec. 1st Fri. 12.25 – Gordale, North Yorkshire – Mountain Rescue
The team were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to a walker(m) collapsed 300m from Gordale House. As team members arrived, despite attempts at CPR by other walkers and the road ambulance crew, the Yorkshire Air Ambulance doctor had sadly declared t ...
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Incident 86/2017 – Nov 30th Thu. 23.52 – Little Stainforth, North Yorkshire – Local Incident.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service requested the team’s assistance when an ambulance crew responding to an urgent call were unable to access the patient due to poor road conditions. Shortly after team members from the local area were mobilised to assist ...
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30th November 2017
With Jake, Tav, Brockers, Jonathon and Mike. Jake had opted for surface duties this evening; Brockers doing the haul and shuttle; Jonathon on top of the slope; I was on the slippery slope that leads to Another Emotional Journey, where, Tav was diggin ...
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28th November 2017
With Roz. Some more induced rapid speleogenesis. 4no. holes, left-hand side of the fissure, to make it wider and easier to work. It's still wet and rather claggy, difficult to get boots free from the mud after drilling holes. Still, all good, ...
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More trips than you can shake a stick at!
Team: Andrew McLeod, Bob Hall, Duncan Hornby, Helen Stewart, Jo White, Malcolm Stewart, Mason Davis, Morgan Specht,Trevor Rogers, Richard Sore, Tarquin Wilton-JonesDate 18th November - 19th NovemberA few of us arrived at the Shepton on Friday, unusuall ...
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Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula reveals a cryptic methane-fueled ecosystem in flooded caves
In the underground rivers and flooded caves of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where Mayan lore described a fantastical underworld, scientists have found a cryptic world in its own right. ...
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25th November 2017
With Jake, Jonathon, Tav, Brockers and Nick. Brockers, sporting a pair of dapper orange dungarees, in a 'Southern Comfort' style, was on surface duties; Jonathon on the haul and shuttle; I was on top of the slope. Jake was on the slippery slope ...
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Unique underwater stalactites
In recent years, researchers have identified a small group of stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave. The Hells Bells in the El Zapote cave near Puerto Morelos on the Yucatán Peninsula are just such formations. Sc ...
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23rd November 2017
With Jake, Jonathon, Nick, Brockers, Duncan and Mike. First task was to check the results of the IRS and to retrieve the wire, it could do with a little TLC. The bulge has been removed, and some large flakes of rock taken-off either side of the fissure ...
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The World of Caving
Coming shortly to a computer/tablet/mobile phone screen near you a new film by Caver Keith - 'The World of Caving'. Release date Monday 4th December 2017 after its premiere at the Royal Geographical Society. Starring members of Dudley Caving Club with ...
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Incident 85/2017 – Nov 19th Fri. 17.30 – Ingleborough summit, North Yorkshire – Mountain Rescue.
Two three-peaks walkers (m, 24; f, 24) reported themselves benighted on the summit of Ingleborough, inadequately clad and shod, with no spare kit or food and only mobile phones for navigation and lighting. One had a panic attack, causing breathing diff ...
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21st November 2017
Solo. It was, a bit of a struggle this evening with the kit in the wet, mucky conditions. This was not helped by all the loose crap at the top of the slope and, down it too, probably the result of some pointless digging activity last weekend ...
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Alum Pot – A Classic Yorkshire Pothole
Alum Pot is a pothole with a large open 100 metre deep shaft on the eastern flanks of Simon Fell, North Yorkshire.The beck which cascades into it appears quite insignificant and the surface of the shaft is clothed with trees, yet it contains one of the ...
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18th November 2017
With Jake, Jonathon, Nick, Tav, Brockers and Matt. Jon's turn to dig, Tav was to clear-away, but quickly completed the survey too, Brockers was on the slippery slope, with Nick on top of the slope, Matt and Jake sharing the haul and shuttle. ...
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16th November 2017
With Jake, Tav, Nick, Jonathon, Duncan and Mike. Our 'sympathies' are with poor, delicate Brockers who was tucked-up in bed with 'man-flu'.
Me digging, Jon loading the spoil into the skip behind me, Duncan's turn on the slippery slope, hauling the ...
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