#caving — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #caving, aggregated by home.social.
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Open Source Caving: 20 Years of Making Cave Mapping Tools
“In his talk Open Source Caving: 20 Years of Making Cave Mapping Tools at Hackaday Europe 2026, Phil takes us through a series of progressively more advanced open hardware devices that he’s designed to increase the speed and accuracy of underground mapping efforts. Along the way, he’s learned a number of valuable less...
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/open-source-caving-20-years-of-making-cave-mapping-tools/
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Open Source Caving: 20 Years of Making Cave Mapping Tools
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-0089e042-5807b6c66f1b836d
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Hackaday Europe 2026: Open Source Hardware Goes Underground, Literally
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Descent 311 is in stock. Leck Fell's got a new horizontal find (Bendall, Carlisle & Scaife), plus Meghalaya expedition news, North Wales metal mines, carbide lamps making a comeback, and six pages of North news.
Shop: https://www.inglesport.com/product/descent-magazine/ 👍
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It's Winch Meet week. 🤩
Craven Pothole Club's Gaping Gill Winch Meet runs Fri 14–21 Aug: 98m down into Britain's biggest cave chamber. Sold out, but cancellations do happen. Watch CPC's site for late spots. Got a ticket? Tell us your slot 👇
https://www.cravenpotholeclub.org/index.php/about-gaping-gill/visit-gaping-gill
#outdoors #caving #spelunking #potholing #yorkshire #uk #britain #england #nature
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New in: Fenix HM65R V2.0 'NITERAY' 🔦
✅ 2200 lm / 230m throw
✅ Independent spot + flood switches
✅ Instant red light, night-vision safe
✅ IP68, 2m impact rated
✅ 144g, USB-C rechargeableIn stock now. Shop: https://www.inglesport.com/product/fenix-hm65r-v2-0-niteray-headlamp/ 👍
#caving #potholing #spelunking #lighting #outdoors #yorkshire
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Simon does house clearances. He found an old photo album, realised it belonged to a Craven Pothole Club member from the 1930s–50s, and got it to the club instead of the skip. What's inside is remarkable. 🤯
The Gaping Gill winch worked entirely by hand before today's chair. A wedding party posed under crossed caving ladders. Cavers dwarfed inside a chamber with one wooden ladder between them and the surface...
#caving #potholing #spelunking #yorkshire #uk #britain #england #history #vintagephotography
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Everyone assumed Wogan Cavern, beneath Pembroke Castle, had been "emptied out" by Victorian diggers.
One archaeologist noticed an untouched calcite floor and thought otherwise.
Hippo bones. Mammoth remains. Early human tools. Now a 5-year Aberdeen-led dig, with hopes of pulling DNA straight from the cave sediment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp36lnng046o
#history #geologyrocks #wales #uk #britain #caving #spelunking #archaeology
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Robert MacFarlane's lyrically phrased 2019 book "Underland" deals with all kinds of underground spaces and people's ideas about them. Caves, catacombs, quarries, glacier tunnels, nuclear waste disposal sites. But he doesn't even mention Dungeons & Dragons. High culture fear of frivolous pop culture contamination?
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To Dodge A Fight With Trump, Law Firms Cut Deals. Now The Deals Are Creating A Fight With Trump.
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Two days. ⏰
Craven Pothole Club Gaping Gill Winch Meet tickets go live this Wednesday 1st July at 10am. May's meet sold out in under 20 minutes. August is your second chance. Share this. Tag an adventure buddy. Bookmark 👇
https://www.cravenpotholeclub.org/index.php/about-gaping-gill/visit-gaping-gill
#outdoors #gapinggill #caving #potholing #spelunking #yorkshire #yorkshiredales #uk #britain #england
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Found some of my own writing and my old deceased friend Lars-Erik Åström's 1986 book about #caving at Kisa Municipal Library.
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Missed the May Gaping Gill Winch Meet?
The Craven Pothole Club August tickets drop at 10am on Wednesday 1st July. Have your payment details ready to go.
Who's setting an alarm for this?
https://www.cravenpotholeclub.org/index.php/about-gaping-gill/visit-gaping-gill
#outdoors #gapinggill #yorkshiredales #yorkshire #uk #britain #england #caving #potholing #spelunking
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Into the dark. 🔦 Gareth Williams & Kendal Caving Club take on the Lancaster Hole → Wilf Taylor's round trip in Ease Gill, past the famous Colonnades and back out. Worth a watch.
Full film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79HfS_uCJ1M
#outdoors #caving #spelunking #potholing #yorkshiredales #yorkshire #uk #britain #england
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Descent issue 310 is in stock. Tribute to Geoff Yeadon, the Space Miners' latest Dales find, caves in Spain and the Pyrenees, family caving, sustainable expeditions, and a LifeStraw review. A proper issue.
Order: https://www.inglesport.com/product/descent-magazine/ 👍
#outdoors #caving #spelunking #potholing #uk #britain #england
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Game 3 of our 9 part mega summer special 100th episode will focus on Colossal Cave Adventure!
An inductee into the Video Game Hall of Fame, ADVENT inspired the first adventure games, text-based games, and possibly most of interactive fiction overall!
Many modern games owe its lineage to ADVENT, including 1980's Rogue as we'll discuss ⛏️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
#GROGPOD100 #colossalcave #textgame #retrogaming #retrocomputing #gaming #history #caving #cave
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Finalized my decision to step down as president of my #caving group.after a dozen years. Time for the younger friends to take the baton for the future.
It is incredible how many formal steps are required for such a change.
Damn it, people only want to go caving, but bureaucracy nowadays complicates even the simplest things. -
Middle Scar Cave: sealed for years after its entrance collapsed, only recently reopened. Almost nobody knows about it.
Gareth Williams and Kendal Caving Club were inside: wet, tight, and genuinely special. One of Ribblehead's least-known underground gems.
📹 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dgi4khBhzEM
#outdoors #yorkshire #yorkshiredales #caving #spelunking #potholing #uk #britain #england
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Incredible news for northern cavers and history nerds. DNA has revealed Northern Britain’s oldest human remains—found in a Cumbrian cave—belong to a 3-year-old girl from 11,000 years ago. Pierced jewelry suggests it was a sacred burial site. What do you think? 👇
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260519224326.htm
#caving #spelunking #potholing #history #archaeology #cumbria #uk #britain #england
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A Texolex caving helmet, probably 1960s–70s, next to a modern Petzl.
The shell is resin-bonded woven textile laminate: cotton fabric soaked in phenolic resin, moulded under heat and pressure. The suspension inside was webbing and leather.
Produced by Malcolm Campbell (Plastics) Ltd, London. Patent dating to 1957.
Sat on our shop wall for comparison. What do you think? 🪖
#outdoors #caving #potholing #spelunking #mining #mineexploring #protective_equipment #history
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1,000 caves beneath Nottingham. And archaeologist Scott Lomax reckons there are still hundreds more to find.
Pub cellars. Sand mines. Medieval passages with no surviving written record.
A brilliant read for anyone drawn to the underground 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgzp99g65yo#history #historical #speleogy #caving #nottingham #uk #britain #england #archaeology
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Locals in Bloxham, Oxfordshire talked about tunnels beneath the village for generations. Most called it myth.
Turns out it's real. A growing network of underground passages, one found by accident when a builder's garage footings gave way in March. Red deer bones inside. Pre-medieval.
Turns out some legends are worth investigating!
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Really pleased and proud that my eldest daughter, Emma, has become a qualified cave leader (in addition to her mountain leader). She only started doing outdoor activities in her 40s, despite all my previous efforts.
My other daughter Claire was her assistant in the assessment making sure clients were clipped on properly for belays. Well done to her too.
Shows if you put your mind to something and enjoy it, anything is possible. Inspiring!