First Impressions The Jack is a new compact descender that has been released by Singing Rock and has just become available in the UK. I ordered mine through Abaris, but other retailers may also stock them by the time you are reading this. I picked this up as it carries the necessary EN standards and …
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Category:Caving
Footloops for SRT
This article is an in-depth look at caving footloops used as part of an SRT kit for progression up a rope. There are variations in how these are constructed and the materials used, ranging from professionally manufactured dedicated footloops to self-tied rope assemblies. This page will cover the main variations in footloops commonly seen in …
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LCMLA Vertical Cave & Mine Leader Ropework
Cavers and Mine Explorers who aspire to lead novices underground in the UK will usually need to complete one of the British Caving Association LCMLA qualifications. The first tier is the Cave and Mine Leader Award, allowing you to lead in predominantly horizontal cave or mine systems. To extend the remit of the award to …
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LCMLA Cave & Mine Leader Ropework
Cavers and Mine Explorers who aspire to lead novices underground in the UK will usually need to complete one of the British Caving Association LCMLA qualifications. The first tier is the Cave and Mine Leader Award, allowing you to lead in predominantly horizontal cave or mine systems. This award covers many aspects of underground safety …
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Cowstails for SRT
This page covers everything that you need to know about caving cowstails for SRT, and is accompanied by a how to tie video.
Mini Traxion v2
During 2023 Petzl released an updated version to the long-discontinued Mini Traxion. What makes the new Mini Traxion stand out from the others then?
Aberllyn Rigging Guide
Aberllyn Lead/Zinc mine is an excellent, all be it crumbly, trip near to Betws y Coed. There is a good SRT route down through the mine that gives the explorer a good workout whist also offering some opportunity to practice the proper vertical stuff that many of the angled slabby slate mine routes lack. Below …
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Near Miss – April 2022
A near miss report following an incident caused by the interaction between a Petzl RIG and Micro Traxion.
Weather for the Castleton area
Weather resources and links for the local caver.
Mineral ID
It is sometimes really hard to relate the minerals I see underground to the professional sample pictures on places like Wiki and Google. All I wanted was to be sure that what I saw was a certain thing. Well, I’ve started a Flickr album showing actual minerals in actual mines in the hope that I …
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