Contents of Issue 82, Winter 1998
This page edited 15/12/00 to remove or
correct some broken URLs caused by the BCRA site moving to a new server. For
current contact information and diary dates, please refer to the Caves & Caving home page
News from British caving regions:
- SSSI status for Upper Dentdale caves 3
- Gusunder Pot & Halo Pot at Chapel le Dale 6
- Bull Pot of the Witches 6
- Turbary Pot, West Kingsdale 6
- Pillar Holes & Long Kin West, Newby Moss 6
- Fulcrum Pot, Loose Pot & Five Ways Pot, Dowlass Moss 6
- Bagshawe Resurgence 8
- Ground penetrating radar reveals new cave at Poole's Cavern, but too
small for cavers 9
- New passage in Bagshawe Cavern 9
- Dog Holes 9
- Effects of the October 1998 floods on Poole's Cavern, Speedwell
Cavern, Peak Cavern & Lathkilldale 9-10
- Cribarth Sink become a cave 8
Overseas:
- A mile deep - The Gouffre Mirolda (Campion) 12-17
- Cavers loiter within tent at the 14th Irish caving symposium 7
International News:
- Ultima Esperanza! $50,000 to explore caves of Patagonia 3
- Poles produce new world's deepest cave: Lamprechtsofen Austria
(Gradzinski) 10
- Chiltan Adventurers Association explore two new caves in Pakistan
(Brooks)10
General Features:
- Editorial: On the "lost" caves of the Yorkshire Dales 2
- Expedition grants: the David Hood Awards, and Ghar Parau Foundation -
the bad news and the good (Judson) 30
- The Rolex Awards 31-32
Gear Review:
- Campbell Scientific control system used at Stump Cross Caverns 4
Association News:
- 1999 Cave Science Symposium, Saturday 6th March, Nottingham Trent
University 4
- BCRA Travel Insurance 5. Contact: John Cooper, 1 Elm Close, WELLS,
Somerset BA5 1LZ, Tel: 01749 670568
- Hidden Earth '98 Conference Review, competition prizewinners and
sponsors (various authors) 18-29
- BCRA 25th Anniversary Sale 31. Contact: Ernie Shield, Village Farm,
Great Thirkleby, THIRSK, N. Yorkshire YO7 2AT Tel: 0845 501424
- BCRA Council address list 1998 32
Reviews:
- Pierk 3, September 1998 (Dikstra) 10
- Martinez, J., Manual de Espeleologia (Oldham) 11
- Steward, P.J. 1998, Tales of Dirt, Danger & Darkness (Oldham) 11
- Fincham, A.G., Jamaica Underground. The caves, sinkholes and
underground rivers of the island (St Lawrence) 11