If anyone has a new Super Avanti or Aven, Petzl harness, with orange coloured webbing, please be aware that there is a known issue with the buckles slipping. Petzl have now come up with a new buckle cover that fixes the issue, available for free, on request to Petzl. Please see the following page on […]
Photo Competition Winners 2024
/in What's OnA good turnout of members enjoyed a presentation of fine photographs from the past year, from classic underground shots to humorous snaps. Isn’t it amazing what you can get with a mobile phone these days! Last year’s Giles Barker Award winner, Alice Shackley, judged the individual categories, while the members present voted for the overall […]
Fix for Petzl harnesses whose leg buckles tend to come undone
/in CavingIf anyone has a new Super Avanti or Aven, Petzl harness, with orange coloured webbing, please be aware that there is a known issue with the buckles slipping. Petzl have now come up with a new buckle cover that fixes the issue, available for free, on request to Petzl. Please see the following page on […]
Hazeltop update
/in DiggingHazeltop Cave is awaiting a push at the current end of the cave, a nasty boulder choke with slabs of roof hanging off. But the carrot is the 3 kilometres the cave still has to go to reach the rising at the top of Barbondale. We will return in the spring/summer when the weather is […]
Casterton Pot
/in DiggingThe Casterton Pot diggers are inching their way closer to Bull Pot of the Witches! Well, metre-ing their way might be more accurate, particularly these last couple of weeks. On successive Wednesday evenings the south passage dig has produced 10 metre extensions on both days – giant leaps forward in the history and slow slog […]