JonK
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8 years ago
Gents

A little fun for the winter. If we were to select "The Worlds Most Experienced Mine Explorer" How would we do it and who are the main contenders?
Paul Marvin
8 years ago
I think the "Thursday Nighters" would be up there, well clued up bunch, it certainly wouldn't be me :lol:
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Margot
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8 years ago
I suppose you have to quantify the amount of time they have spent exploring. As the most experienced one probably has been at it for decades that would be difficult. Maybe apply some correction for how many mines and how many different types of mines they have under their belt as experience is not just time spent. And how varied their experiences were! Did they find forgotten ones? Did they dig? Did they build? Did they survey? Etc etc. Suggested equation:

E=hrs * nr of mines^-4 * types of mines^-2 * v

E: experience index
v: variation index


I think you won't manage to reliably quantify the experience of any old hand, but eh, should we go for H0 = it's Roy Fellows, and everyone who wants to disprove that hypothesis has to come up with someone more dyed in the wool than him?
:smartass:
Paul Marvin
8 years ago
Think Mr fellows would also do well !
"I Dont Know Where I am Going, But When I Get There I will Know Where I am"
John Lawson
8 years ago
Ian Hebsen,
Is the guy, an old Capelcleugh explorer, with Roy, and the guy people ask, has Heb, done it?
Tamarmole
8 years ago
Slightly off topic but........

The cave digger measures his / her success in metres of passage found whilst the mine digger measures his / her success in terms of their ongoing survival.

:offtopic:
Margot
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8 years ago
"Tamarmole" wrote:

Slightly off topic but........

The cave digger measures his / her success in metres of passage found...

:offtopic:



I suppose that only holds for those that dig in caves that are not prone to flooding! :confused:
Willy Eckerslyke
8 years ago
We all have it so easy these days with our LED lamps and efficient SRT kit. Yet we only have to read through old mine plans and reports to see the same names crop up repeatedly from a time when explorers were real pioneers. So I take my hat off to heroes like George Hall, Dave Bick, and our own Messrs Fellowes, Isherwood, Bird... :flowers:
"The true crimefighter always carries everything he needs in his utility belt, Robin"
Margot
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8 years ago
"The Fresh Prince of Portreath" wrote:

Hugh Browning is up the top. Legend of a man. Not sure how old he is, but he was writing trip reports in PCG in 1962. He's still 100% hardcore and on it.....as well as his wife.



Hugh indeed is quite impressive! And a lovely man at that. :flowers:
john_cribbin
8 years ago
The Horta ....
Wormster
8 years ago
J. Rat, Mr Roy and the "Indomitable Moulders"!
Better to regret something you have done - than to regret something you have not done.
droid
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8 years ago
J Rat was more of a cave digger.....;D
BertyBasset
8 years ago
He did a fair amount of mines as well. Quite a few of the North Wales ones. Great bit in his diaries on climbing Coed Mawr Pool from the Deep Adit.

Robin
Wormster
8 years ago
"droid" wrote:

J Rat was more of a cave digger.....;D



Helped my Sion Sheltinger get many artifacts out of places to be conserved, back in the early 1970's!
Better to regret something you have done - than to regret something you have not done.
RAMPAGE
8 years ago

Mark from Corris.
Beneath my steely exterior beats the heart of a dashing hero
TheBogieman
8 years ago
Yes, Mark. Not just Corris but all the mines in Cumbria and many more elsewhere. A 'mine of information' too, just ask a question about a mine and he knows and willingly shares the info...
Explorans ad inferos
Graigfawr
8 years ago
To conclude his summary history of North Cardiganshire Mining Club, Simon Hughes wrote:

"During these 24 years I must have been underground with 1,000 different people on an incalculable number of trips, maybe over 5,000" *

This might be a yardstick to measure against?

http://www.abercavers.co.uk/thrutch/015/#h-031  ]
JonK
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8 years ago
It's not Mark he's the "Best in the Universe" by his own admission. But Miles you know the answer to this question, which I raised in jest. Having looked for evidence in writing the only thing I can find is the Go Below brochure which states - Personally Guided Trips by World's Most experienced Mine Explorers! So now we know.

Cheers

Jon - Written with a CHEESY grin

RAMPAGE
8 years ago

Well I didn't think I could vote for myself. Obviously I would have voted for myself.
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