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Great day publicity day yesterday. Presented with our cheque from Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority by the Park Chair, Carl Lis OBE. Presentation cheque to B4RN Casterton as well. The weather was lovely so all presentations were done outside. Also present were representatives from B4RN, [...]

B4RN for Casterton has reached Bullpot, Gale Garth and Smithy House but not without much preliminary work. Having obtained the permission of Natural England and the Yorkshire Dales National Park to construct this spur, B4RN Ltd appointed Tony Swidenbank, as the contractor to build it [...]

The club’s recent application to Sedbergh & Kirkby Lonsdale (South Lakeland) Community Grants Fund was successful and a grant of £400 has been awarded in respect of funding improvements to the access track to the club’s centre at Bullpot Farm and improvements to parking either [...]

We now have been given permission from ARSIP for our proposed summer trip to the Pierre Saint-Martin system in August. “Red Rose Cave and Pothole Club : Traversées SC3 – Verna + toutes les autres classiques.” The dates are:- 5 – 20 Aug 2017 and will [...]

(Photos must be in landscape format and minimum 300dpi.)To help fund printing costs, we are offering some advertising /sponsorship space on both Dales and Cave sides of the calendar. Each page will have 3 small ad boxes at £5 each. Members are invited to take [...]

A link is highlighted below to Gavin Lowe’s Ease Gill Caverns Wiki. He has been working on this for some time, mostly on solo trips!Members can find this useful addition at:- http://easegill.shoutwiki.com/wiki/M ain_Page

The competition was on Sat 4th February 2017 at Bullpot Farm. Results below. Quite a good selection of photos entered. Thanks to Boz for judging. It was a shame that there were only three entries for the Abroad Underground category, so Bill Nix won so [...]

On 16th December 2016 we were formally notified from the Yorkshire Dales National Park that we have been given £8,000 SDF grant for Environmental Improvements to Bullpot Farm. This money will be available for a year from the start of the project on 1st February [...]

RRCPC JOURNAL 11 Just published. 245 pages full of exploration, photos, surveys recorded over the last 6 years. A must have record of the clubs activities over the last few years. Copies available direct from the editor – Ray Duffy at £25. If you want a [...]

Embroidered Red Rose Badges at £5 each are now available from Ray Duffy. Buy yours at the Bonfire Party or before.

Met Office weather links

Sheet 4 now published

The Eli Simpson Archive is an extensive collection of material covering caves and caving in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. It was compiled by Eli Simpson (1884– 1962), the founder of the British Speleological Association (now the (BCRA), First few books contain photos and surveys from the [...]