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Offline Wineslob

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Re: Caves and Caverns
« Reply #25 on: January 10, 2011, 02:17:00 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on January 10, 2011, 02:01:31 PM
Did you get your own sign?

At best, it's on some topographers map. I doubt I could go back and find it.   :p

Another excellent cave was Lilburn in Sequoia Natl Park. We spent about 14 hours mapping sections of it, so I was able to see areas where not many people had been, not that many get down there as it's well over 400 ft down just to get to the areas that needed mapping.
At the bottom there's a "lake" with trout that get trapped from the stream above. How they survive getting that far underground beats me. The cave was formed from the stream above eroding the Marble away. The "outlet" or resurgence in the stream is pretty cool to check out also.

I wish I could find all my old pics and transfer them to disc.    :(
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Re: Caves and Caverns
« Reply #26 on: January 10, 2011, 03:19:10 PM »
I've got a few caves on my property. My son and I explored a few, untill a bobcat ran us out of one and a rattlesnake out of another.
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Re: Caves and Caverns
« Reply #27 on: January 11, 2011, 09:54:32 AM »
I've been to (and in) Mammouth Cave in Kentucky, back in the mid-80s.  Amazing place!
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Re: Caves and Caverns
« Reply #28 on: January 11, 2011, 10:03:53 AM »
Quote from: njpines on January 11, 2011, 09:54:32 AM
I've been to (and in) Mammouth Cave in Kentucky, back in the mid-80s.  Amazing place!


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Re: Caves and Caverns
« Reply #29 on: January 11, 2011, 07:22:38 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on January 10, 2011, 02:17:00 PM
At best, it's on some topographers map. I doubt I could go back and find it.   :p

Another excellent cave was Lilburn in Sequoia Natl Park. We spent about 14 hours mapping sections of it, so I was able to see areas where not many people had been, not that many get down there as it's well over 400 ft down just to get to the areas that needed mapping.
At the bottom there's a "lake" with trout that get trapped from the stream above. How they survive getting that far underground beats me. The cave was formed from the stream above eroding the Marble away. The "outlet" or resurgence in the stream is pretty cool to check out also.

I wish I could find all my old pics and transfer them to disc.    :(

OK, I have to ask something I was told when I started looking into seriously doing cave exploration a few years back. 

When you are deep, deep down inside bowels of a cave, do you really have to carry your number 1s and number 2s out with you?



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Re: Caves and Caverns
« Reply #30 on: January 11, 2011, 08:26:26 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on January 11, 2011, 07:22:38 PM
OK, I have to ask something I was told when I started looking into seriously doing cave exploration a few years back. 

When you are deep, deep down inside bowels of a cave, do you really have to carry your number 1s and number 2s out with you?






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Re: Caves and Caverns
« Reply #31 on: January 11, 2011, 08:28:55 PM »
Oh hell.   :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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Re: Caves and Caverns
« Reply #32 on: January 12, 2011, 11:26:57 AM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on January 11, 2011, 07:22:38 PM
OK, I have to ask something I was told when I started looking into seriously doing cave exploration a few years back. 

When you are deep, deep down inside bowels of a cave, do you really have to carry your number 1s and number 2s out with you?






Believe it or not, I don't think I had that issue. Maybe #1, but I think I just dug a hole in an out-of-the-way spot. Most of the caves I Ca are small, so it was never a big deal to get out in time.
As far as #2, yup, carry baggies is the rule.
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