Thread: Exploring caves
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Windswept
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2006-10-31, 15:25

I stumbled onto a page of underground photos and started wondering if any of you have done any cave exploring.

I think caves are really scary because they are dark, deep in the earth, and represent the unknown.

But those features also make caves pretty exciting. I've explored ancient lava tubes with ice caves in them, wearing the miner's hard-hat with light. I've also explored a cave in Tennessee where in some places we were crawling in mud through very small passages, on our stomachs.

When I see pics of people going down into a cave by means of a free-hanging rope, I can't help shivering.



If I'm going into a cave, I'd like to be in full contact with the cave surface the whole time. But I suppose I'd feel otherwise with more extensive rope training.

I 'have' rappelled down cliff faces, but at least you can touch the cliff with your feet from time to time, even when you're descending rapidly. Descending in mid-air into a cavern...? Whoa! Pretty scary in my book.

So, have any of you done any cave exploring? Or even visited any major caverns?

Thanks for any replies.


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