Newsletter

The eagerly awaited next edition of the Newsletter is being printed, and will soon find itself being squeezed through the letterboxes of cavers up and down the country (and beyond).

Meanwhile - I am going to put together a newsletter for the club's 70th Anniversary, to be published around the time of the AGM this year. Please get writing! My deadline for this next edition is 7th March 2016. Chloe

OFD Water Guage

Having got a stable system of water level recording in operation and results in the form of graphs now being displayed on the wall in the Long Common Room, the next stage of the process could get under way.

All data is currently historic, the eventual aim being to get real time data out of the cave and up to the club.

To this end, with clearance from Kerry Rogers (Senior Conservation Officer, Swansea Natural Resource Management Team in charge of SSSi’s) a data cable was laid from the water level recorder to the OFD 1 entrance last weekend. Where possible the cable is hidden in rifts or high up out of sight, behind boulders etc, in some places it is pinned to the wall or roof of the passage to avoid it snagging on passing cavers or being damaged by floodwater. Only metal or plastic fixings and wedges were used in order to avoid organic material being introduced into the cave. The work which took some 8 hours in total, was carried out by Graham Christian, Brian Clipstone, Andy & Dave Dobson and myself. With thanks to Pete Cardy for supplying the cable and for the loan of some cable laying equipment. We are now ready for Stuart France to sort out the electronics. Allan

All the data from December is available as an excel file.

Otter Hole

COtter Hole trip, Sunday 29th May. Meet at 8.30am near Chepstow for an over-the-tide trip. Only 5 places available. Contact Claire.

New Year

Well done to Harvey for an excellent bit of catering for the New Year party, though I expect it fed people for the rest of the weekend as well!

TV Series

We now have the confirmed dates for Iolo's Brecon Beacons, which several members assisted with the creation of. The First episode, Winter, will air at 1930 on 13th January on BBC1 Wales, the further episodes (Spring, Summer and Autumn) will probably follow at weekly intervals

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