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.
Alpine Butterfly
The Alpine Butterfly Knot is a commonly knot in vertical caving. Tied on the bight it can be used as a mid-rope loop knot for SRT rigging.
Figure of Eight Knot
The Figure of Eight Knot is one of the mostly widely used knots in caving and climbing.
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.
Tutor XG rope – Nov 2019 Update
As written about in a previous blog post, I have been testing some rope that was kindly given to me by Spanset. The rope is Teufelberger Tutor XG, a 10mm semi-static Type A.A few months on and with a good bit of use made of it so far, I thought it was time for a …
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