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Uuuuuuuuugh! Get well soon bud :)

We did LRNC not long after its discovery. The wet bit near the entrance which you've illuminated so well with an underwater torch was memorable. Great video. Would love to see a version without the muzak which has destroyed the soundtrack.

Best of luck with the knees!

Lovely film as always, thanks for taking all that time to share it. Please don't make it the last video

Looked like the water level was knee-deep. It hit my knackers when I was there (probably 15+ years ago). Nice to see it hasn't changed at all really. Your two visitors looked like F15s - probably Americans from their base in Lakenheath (they come up to fly through the "loop" at Cadair Idris). Excellent video :o)

Wich level is this, 3?

That was one of the first mines I went to explore (perhaps 20 years ago now). The walk up was a steep little bugger. The long adit in was flooded to my waist and it was the first experience I had of a “wet trip” (they quickly got much wetter of course). It was also the first time I had seen flooded chambers (thought you might dive it but Sue was dragging a load of gear in). You can also walk around some narrow paths at the top of a couple of chambers - dodgy as hell though! There were also a number of short adits on the other side (where you were pointing early on to explain the valley). None connected to each other, but a couple had some caverns and were interesting.

Think you need a doctor you say a couple of words and sound out of breath

Thank you for uploading 😊

ASMR for ex cavers ❤

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Mineral seams looked ‘friendly’ but yeah poor quality slate like Cambrian. Wonder if quality got better deeper.

Great adventure, Bravo!

Looks fantastic Paul

Thank you for the video, but seems its too risky for me.

It is a beautiful place i was there on Sunday morning.

Alfie's videos keep get better!

excellent video as always .

Nice little video, plenty to see. I appreciate you didn't want to narrate where the mine was but you know you included the name in the title of the video, right? Looking forward to Part 2 - there did seem to be an awful lot of puffing and panting during ALL your narration - more steroids! :o)

Are those rhododendron bushes outside? Nice flowers.

Thank you so much for sharing your journey with this little known jewel of a breed. I think they are such a healthy, useful breed because popularity hasnt ruined them like so many other breeds.

Looks a lovely little trip, good to see Alfie brought his humans with him too!

Narration for me (you gave us the choice, right? :o) ) So much easier caving if you happen to a small woofer with 4 legs. Looking forward to your North Wales Slate Mines visit next ...

Doe’s the photographer have an Instagram account or website where I could purchase some of the images?

Should mask your reg, even if just white paper and blu tac. Don't underestimate the number of weirdos on the internet and you can lookup details from registrations

My ex wife’s HRT patch once came off in bed and I woke up with it stuck to me. Never been same since

Still eagerly waiting for the dive part 1 and part 2, you're keeping us in suspense 😁 Fir rhise of us who are nisy a d hoping to learn, pkease feed us as much info as you have patience to do, like water temp and if you canget away with a cave undersuit rather than full dry suit under suit or if the cylinders are 7s or not as well as pressure, why no oversuit to protect dry suit on a dive like this (and would that interfere with a shoulder dump anyway?). Sorry trying to suck every scrap of info I can. Thanks

Commentary please

Attempts to keep water out of Wellies are ALWAYS futile lol. Some of the river passageway looked exactly like Poacher's Cave in North Wales (but without the glacial sediment). I still the narration is an improvement - nice job! :o)

That cave couldn’t be in South Wales, there was no gate at the entrance! (Shock, Horror!) I caught the immortal words of the forgotten caver “I’m Stuck” - Of course, you never are (unless you are). Nice change to have the narration. You also appear to have forgotten one the very basic rules of caving, which is, attempting to prevent water from going over wellies is always futile - don’t bother even trying lol. You could, if you wanted, run some subdued background music behind the narration. Perhaps with some blasts of Horror sounds right after the words “I’m Stuck!” - keeps the old ticker going for armchair cavers (or stops it altogether). Looking forward to part2 ….

A great vid, brought back great memories of days spent there in the 70's no fancy videos back then. Bridge cave sump was my first dive, great times, thanks. You got a new subscriber 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

So glad I found this video, just so i can say thank you for all the work you`ve put into this place. I used to visit the copopermines valley and tilberthwaite area a lot when very young with my dad and have been fascinated by the mines since. we never went in penny rigg to far as it was always flooded, so for me to return a couple of decades later and find its been cleared all the way to the end, i was made up! Couldnt beleave the amount of work done.... and filling those ton bags stacked 3 and 4 high, god only knows how! So thanks again, brilliant! ......... one question i always wondered - i either read or heard years ago that you used to be able to pass all the way through to deep adit/horse level in the coppermines valley, do you know if this is true?

Oooooh commentary AND role reversal with the camera ... very cool. I do think the commentary makes a world of difference and its great to see you BOTH in action. :o)

What's your favourite between Votty & Bowydd and this one?

Was watching with interest until I saw the words "Bananarama" - left the video in horror!!

Looks great there 👍

I might of missed them but i didn't see any footage of what we call the wishing well, it's a pool of water thats filtered through the limestone. Also some other chambers named was piano chamber because there's a large slab of rock in the shape of a grand piano and also Queens chamber where you can still see the bracket from a chandelier on the ceiling from when Queen Victoria visited.

I met quite a few of the Troggs my dad was 1 of them, the stories and image a lot of people had/have aren't true, he still has paper cuttings where they were mentioned. Ive been down there myself many times and slept down there too it's a really nice mine/cavern and you can spend a whole day exploring which messes with you a bit when you go in during the day then come out to darkness lol.

Blimey, is there no part of the country you haven't been? Nice explore though :o)

Just come across your channel (watched your long churn cave video from 2 years ago). Really interesting videos as we’re looking at joining a potholing club. Subbed to see more 🙂

Used to live in Nenthead. We went for a walk all around the area of the Mines but never went into the Mines though. Very interesting. Thank you for this amazing video.

Thanks for showing us around

Very nice video 👌 is it possible to visit this mine year around?

Nice video and equipament

Can i get the post code

I tried a harness on my cat, it wouldn't even get up on its feet😅

Wow . What can I say. What a place to visit. I've been down a few slate mines in the distant past but past it now at 80. So thank you for taking me on this trip. Brilliant stuff Great filming .. these Welsh miners were real MEN . Many thanks .

What about all my cassettes? :o)

It wasn't on the video but did you find the small area of quartz that carried fool's gold? Odd as anything I've seen in metamorphic rock ...

Hi mate sorry I missed you today at the gym I totally forgot over the weekend, I am there everyday starting tomorrow in morning around 9am. If you remember we spoke about it on Friday.