AGM & Ceilidh Sat 4th May ~ by PCW

Mountains, fine weather*, great caving, good friends, fun ceilidh dancing, best bitter and a bit of a meeting - save the date!

Our AGM will be at 9.00 am in the usual Miner's Welfare Hall at Abercrave.
Come and have your say about your how your Club is run, vote who you want on and off the Cttee and why not put yourself forward? Here are the different roles. It would be good to see a bundle of faces from the under 40 brigade (smiley emoticon). Don't let us duffers make all the choices!

In the evening is our regular awesome Ceilidh - at the same venue as last year. Lel has found a cheaper coach company, and our friends The Bear Band will be playing for us and explaining how to strip the willow (winky emoticon).

Cwmllynfell hall, Gwilym Rd, Cwmllynfell. SA9 2GH - full details on booking form here - book now.

See you there! * barometers can go down as well as up

Brand new all-colour OFD 1 Survey ~ from Chris Grimmett

When you next visit the Club, take a look in the Long Common Room at the new wall survey which covers of OFD 1, Cwm Dwr and out as far as Fault Aven. This is the first part of the cave to have been resurveyed by Brian Clipstone and a pair of Dobsini, with some assistance from others then compiled and drawn by Brian followed by a cartographic reworking from Clark Friend [proof-reading and print organising by Chris Grimmett - Ed].

The scale is exactly the same as before but you will see much improved detail, many more annotations and - it's in glorious Technicolour. The highest passages are coded in red, graduating downwards to purple for the lowest. All water, irrespective of its level is in blue - dark blue for sumps and pale blue for open water. The survey has been printed on PVC rather than conventional poster paper which should be much more durable and damp/beer proof.

One aspect that has already proved very popular is the addition of surface features including the cottages, The Stump, the track, station and fence boundaries. This makes it much easier to relate the orientation of the cave to what goes on above ground.

A well known law ensured that Twll Gwynt Oer was right where the roof beam runs across the LCR and the cave had to be moved across a bit with the aid of a pair of scissors. As the new and old surveys do not quite line up with each other, cavers doing a through trip between Cwm Dwr and Top will have to undertake a hyperspace jump to the East of Fault Aven [do not attempt this when water levels are high].

As the project moves forward, we are maintaining a log file of any errors or suggested alterations before any final survey is printed. If you have any comments on how you think it looks, we would be interested to hear from you [contact Chris Grimmett]. Here are some thoughts:-

Should we print the copies for sale in black and white or colour?
Would you pay a premium for colour?
Is plastic a better print medium all round?
Do we include official Fixed Aids on the survey?

By the way, don't bother telling us that we have mis-spelled Lowe's Chamber and Passage as Low's. When we did the checking through, we found that to the contrary, Low's has been mis-spelled as Lowe's for the last decade or three!

Chris Grimmett

Help!! Articles and Photos still needed for SWCC Journal ~ by Krysia Groves

A massive plea for any articles (short or long) and pictures for the first of our SWCC Journals, I don't have enough yet for one issue, and I'm running out of time!

Please let me have anything you have, latest by the end of this weekend! editor@swcc.org.uk

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