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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Testing the strength of heavy duty caving belts
A Method of Testing the Strength of Heavy Duty Caving Belts The aim of this was to establish a method to test the strength of heavy duty caving belts that did not rely on having access to a load cell. I hoped to produce a simple system that needed very little equipment and that would …
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Removing Sleeve Anchors (SPITS etc…)
I guess this post is a bit of a continuation from the blog post I did about pull testing SPIT type anchors in 2015. Sorry it has taken me so long to get round to doing this! The original post can be seen here: http://www.peakinstruction.com/blog/pulling-spit-anchors-back-garden-test/. One of the points of that testing was to ascertain …
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