Yesterday I spent the day in one of my favourite mines in North Wales (Parc Mine). As I wandered around the several miles of passages it has to offer, I couldn't help but to reminisce the trips gone by in there with people who have disappeared off the caving scene.
UCET have a few new faces at the moment, so I'm hoping people will get on board with this and I'm hoping that the sharing of our fondest memories might initiate some trips to the places that UCET hasn't visited for a while.
So here is the challenge.... Please paste below a photo, video, or memorable story from a caving trip gone by and don't forget to mention where it is (Please note: I've posted this in the public section of the forum so potential new members can see it too)
I'll start with a photo (taken by Tim) and my video of Parc Mine
[video width=425 height=344 type=youtube]I8F2enQCabw[/video]
Who remembers this..... (topical!)
Still, was great times ;)
Name the people in the piccie and where were we?
;)
Funny as fook this was .... Where and when?
[quote="Ian" post=34647]Who remembers this..... (topical!)
Still, was great times ;)
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I remember that, Whitford.
[quote="Ian" post=34650]Funny as fook this was .... Where and when?
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I remember that, Limestone workings.
Where's this then, mind you, you won't see that wooden tub again, it has long since dissintegrated.
It won't let me include a picture of the wooden tub, why would that be.
try again.
but still no picture.
621 me and hoss
[quote="Doug" post=34653][quote="Ian" post=34650]Funny as fook this was .... Where and when?
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I remember that, Limestone workings.[/quote]
Piccadilly you and murfffff
Where's this.
where and who.
[quote="Doug" post=34660]Where's this.[/quote]
Bodfari that one :)
[quote="Doug" post=34661]where and who.[/quote]
Linda - Swinsto ?
[quote="mike leahy" post=34659][quote="Doug" post=34653][quote="Ian" post=34650]Funny as fook this was .... Where and when?
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I remember that, Limestone workings.[/quote]
Piccadilly you and murfffff[/quote]
Doug had it right .... Limestone workings :kiss: :kiss: :kiss:
Where were we .... ?
Where, when and who?
So, back to the point of this thread … “fondest memoriesâ€
This is a piccie from the first Gold Mine trip I was on with UCET in 2006. There is (as always) a story behind every picture. This trip saw the first time John used someone else’s bag (without them knowing) to carry around his “belongingsâ€. On this occasion, he had stuffed his lunch into Doug’s bag without telling him. Doug then, of course, unwittingly carried it around with him all day until we finally sat down for a (late) lunch. Having been in the mine already, we had come out in a long procession and, if memory serves, Doug was at the rear. By the time he had caught us up and by the time John had persuaded him that he has surreptitiously hidden his lunch his in bag (and got it out), the rest of us were ready to leave. Doug, having had little opportunity to lunch, was determined to make a cuppa from his flask, plonked himself down, and still being vexed from carrying John’s additional weight all day, announced (can’t remember his exact words) “I’m having my fucking lunch aren’t I†and made us all wait (you can see the feet of one of us (im)patiently waiting and the photo is taken from an elevated standing position.
From then, it became a regular occurrence that other people’s bags were filled with “stuff†for them to carry around unawares (usually rocks).
I know were is but because its me I wont say, hint was a trial level I was looking at
My first trip with UCET :)
And I still take fuzzy photos underground :huh:
is that Mike with someone else in a caving suit
[quote="Ian" post=34666]Where were we .... ?
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gold mine, across a log and up a hill.
[quote="Doug" post=34661]where and who.[/quote]
this was a bit of a cheat, yes it is Linda but it was in a cave in Matienzo forget the name of it.
[quote="ADE" post=34690]is that Mike with someone else in a caving suit[/quote]
no
john, dylan,ian and i think that might be wes in the back
Not got any pics as yet, not been with the team for long but still made to feel part of the group. Can't wait to get out and in to a cave or mine.
:cheer:
Where are you Sledge, why don't you come caving.
is that Mike and a spider at Picadily.
that's the nearest he will get to having something hairy in his hand,mick
I saw this on tv last night its mikes brother Dave leahy in Australia good lookalike what,mick
I saw this on tv last night its mikes brother Dave leahy in Australia good lookalike what,mick
Sharing nicely, but who,what, where?
[quote="shananna" post=34770]Sharing nicely, but who,what, where?
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Dylan, Doug, dont know (maybe some GCC member), sweetie, me, mike.
once in a lifetime milwr trip to lake with GCC via coed hendre.
Coed hendre/ OG limestone workings.
3rd from left is Colin from GCC. Good times!
that does not look like the lake area the limestone is to white
As Ant has correctly said, it's the limestone workings Murph. We'd already been to the lake and were about to head out through Piccadilly when this photo was taken. We went to the Antelope after for drinks with GCC. Where did it all go so wrong
Quite!
A handsome bit of kit with an old steam engine, where is it
Same place
still same place, note the wildlife on the sick looking mushroom
Flat workings
Yes quite right.
I started compiling a 'archive' of trips a few months ago but got distracted and/or ran out of time....
this was the start of a list.....
Titan: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&Itemid=191&catid=13&id=2213&limitstart=0
Yorkshire (look for a special video in the thread!): http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=13&id=5283&Itemid=191#5283
Yorkshire: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=9&id=4009&limitstart=60&Itemid=191#5047
Mendip: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=13&id=7783&Itemid=191#5859
CRTT: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&Itemid=191&catid=13&id=4627&limitstart=0
Big Derbyshire trip: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&Itemid=191&catid=13&id=9110&limitstart=0
Nenthead 1 trip report: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=20&id=8283&Itemid=191#16671
Nenthead 2 trip report: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=20&id=9101&Itemid=191#24542
Through the OHA Sumps. Really much of this occured on the OLD forum (links still up at the top of UCET website tot he old system by the way). But theres a couple of video here which sum up the trips: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=5&id=778&Itemid=191#778
A bit of a push on OHA (long thread!): http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&Itemid=191&catid=9&id=8421&limitstart=60
And a follow up trip shortly after (read the second to last posts - i'm in danger of finding some enthusiasm if not actual time!): http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&Itemid=191&catid=9&id=8562&limitstart=20
Other different 'stuff'
White scar photography workshop: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=13&id=2183&Itemid=191#2183
South wales - Surveying: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&Itemid=191&catid=12&id=7974&limitstart=0
my First Hidden Earth: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=13&id=2042&Itemid=191#2042
Another hidden earth (theres a gem of a photo near the end of the thread!): http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=13&id=8903&Itemid=191
And we won at Hidden earth! Thats TSG chapel for a weekend for the club was the prize and it wasn't wasted!: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=12&id=9043&Itemid=191#24029
Me modelling UCET gear! hahaha! http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=12&id=2050&Itemid=191#2592
and just for fun: http://www.ucet.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=23&id=4310&Itemid=191#4311
anyone know where this was
Still there but not quite so nice now.
Wrong colour for the gold mine. I'll have a guess at South Llyn y Pandy (1st passage on the right)?
No sorry, 621 upper passage.
were was this looking up from below, hint TIM lives the closest to this cave
Doug,
That's the same stuff that Budgie desecrated isn't it :huh:
Mick,
That's the cave on the opposite side of the road from OG ....
:whistle:
Ian
both wrong,sorry try again
Ian, yes it is
Murph, looks like Moel Ferna
Where is this
wrong again
Spar mine
no,hint I found it, I am the only member of the club who has been in it but I did post o picture and its were abouts
last year,
is it the drain at baghilt
[quote="Doug" post=34864]Where is this
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No idea, but what a cracking photo. Thank you Worzel! :lol:
[quote="madmicks" post=34853]were was this looking up from below, hint TIM lives the closest to this cave
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Is it in the woods at loggerheads?
well times up I will give you the grid ref SJ 21081 63178 Tim might have got it, Mike may have as I showed him the phot,s last year and told him it was quarried then hit the cave lower down, mick
[quote="Doug" post=34864]Where is this
[/quote]
That's in Connah's Quay, but I'm baffled as to why you would be digging there :huh: Anything to do with the pipes that used to pump water from the Halkyn Deep Level to the ammunition works in Shotton?
It was part of the Dee clean up that GCC used to get involved in.mike Craig you already know and Steve brown also an old GCC member.
Don't know why doug is looking so pleased with himself or is he trying to hold s fart in
wrong michael check the grid ref it should ring a bell as I had to go through the grounds of the hotel to the right of the woods
Yes it was the anual Dee clean up, I was still invited to join the gcc group effort until a couple of years ago.
yes it is Connah's Quay dock where the mine water issues into the Dee we pulled out many tyres, Tesco trolleys and old bicycles from places like that along the river Dee.
[quote="mike leahy" post=34875]It was part of the Dee clean up that GCC used to get involved in.mike Craig you already know and Steve brown also an old GCC member.
Don't know why doug is looking so pleased with himself or is he trying to hold s fart in[/quote]
there is no need to hold a fart in when you are covered in stinking river Dee sludge.
Dont even know where this is myself, Tell me Mike.
[quote="madmicks" post=34872]well times up I will give you the grid ref SJ 21081 63178 Tim might have got it, Mike may have as I showed him the phot,s last year and told him it was quarried then hit the cave lower down, mick[/quote]
Keep up Murphy, they are not even talking about your photo.
Which BTW is near to where you think the incline to a particular set of flat workings is located.
Ant has got the area and is the nearest