Thundering Mouse Retreat Short

My first attempt at a short fictional piece. I've years worth of notes and ideas but this is the first I've actually committed to completing. 

https://crackcavingcats.blogspot.com/2020/05/thundering-mouse-retreat.html

Mossdale Sessions 95 - 96 Youtube Video Link

Will begin writing the back-log of Sessions up after a couple more sessions. Or maybe I'll wait till I get to a hundred. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-6szNodoU&t=23s 

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© Simon Beck, 2021. The copyright for this article and photographs, remains with the author. It should not be reproduced without permission.

Mossdale Session 94 Youtube Video Link

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iNhCgUMyUM

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© Simon Beck, 2021. The copyright for this article and photographs, remains with the author. It should not be reproduced without permission.

Mossdale Session 93 Youtube Video Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_juQSNxvXL8

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© Simon Beck, 2021. The copyright for this article and photographs, remains with the author. It should not be reproduced without permission.

Preceding the Session

Another long overdue piece with the odd addition to come no doubt. Took me weeks of thinking about it before I finally sat down at the computer, not to mention numerous attempts over the past four years. It's been a few paragraphs a day, for weeks, while I jogged my memory and searched through notes. Usually by this point I wouldn't have bothered, but feel it was a very productive period, one I never fully documented, and rather crucial to what followed in 2017.

Mossdale Sessions 1 & 2 are still to complete, and should follow soon.    

2016

If I had to summarise this one in a few words it'd be, 'what a year!'

Was one of the most productive years I'd had up to that point caving on the flanks of Great Whernside. The majority of it done with Ian Cummins. It was probably the most attention those caves had received for decades as well.

Eight visits were made to Mossdale Caverns, five to Langcliffe Pot and four to Swarthgill Hole. Activity was also on going at Howgill Nick. The Mossdale visits were pretty well documented, via the blog and elsewhere, but the rest were not, especially the main Langcliffe trip which I really regret now. A few of the Swarthgill Hole trips were written up by Ian, and photographed/videoed by myself over the course of the visits.