Caving story

[chucK]

Is caving climbing? Man that claustrophobia shit freaks me out.

 

check this out

[Alpinfox]

Here is a picture of a squeeze I wriggled through in a cave in the Snoqualamie Pass area. I think I had to take my helmet off for that squeeze, or maybe it was a different one. I agree, it's pretty freaky.

 

 

I went through a squeeze in Colorado in which I could only move when I exhaled. With my lungs full of air, I was stuck!

 

[sobo]

Is caving climbing? Man that claustrophobia shit freaks me out.

 

Sure it is! It's how I got started climbing in the first place: caving in the limestone playgrounds of Virginia and West Virginia. We would map/explore virgin cave passages, and when we couldn't walk, crawl, squeeze, or swim, we'd break out the "cave pole" and the bolt kits.

[klenke]

Me in the Skeleton Cave crawl (near Bend, OR):

[klenke]

The entrance to Skeleton Cave (it's a lava tube): {see Sobo's post below for pic}

[Dru]

That can't be the entrance to Skeleton Cave

There are no bolts!

[sobo]

The entrance to Skeleton Cave (it's a lava tube):

 

The entrance to that cave looks strangely like this one:

 

We can't risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite!

[klenke]

Yep yep, one of us didn't make it out alive. There were many skeletons in Skeleton Cave. They all had gnaw marks on their bones--gnaw marks that looked suspiciously rodent-like.

So is it really a cave or actually a warren?

 

I should note that it wasn't really a "crawl" space in the first photo since you could only squeeze through on your back. What do you call inching your way forward while on your back (where you use your shoulder blades to crawl)?

[ScottP]

[Squid]

What do you call inching your way forward while on your back?

 

Missionary

[Dru]

The Worm.

[iain]

dunno how true that caving story was but it was a good read.

 

and in terms of adventure, caving can easily beat out any climbing

[Bogen]

Yeah, I enjoyed that story immensely! I actually jumped when the phone rang. I loved the ending.

[K_Y_L_E]

Me too Bogen! True or not, a pretty good story and pretty good pics too. No way in hell you would catch me in a spot that tight. Anyone wat to go spelunking!

[OldManRock]

Cavers rescue spelunkers

[jmace]

so what happens? is there no end ???

 

if that last page is the end, then Ted

[sobo]

Yeah, WTF is that all about? That's just bullshit! What about MY closure???!!!

[klenke]

I've always wondered if there is a feature in a cave somewhere called Thin Man's Misery.

[Dru]

more likely to be at the burger shack than in the cave

or in the sack with fat girlfriend

[catbirdseat]

That shit freaks me out. I'd have to say that if I have a phobia, it would have to be getting stuck and not being able to move. I could be hanging from a fingernail a mile off the ground and it wouldn't be as scary as one of those squeezes. Yikes!

[gapertimmy]

sobo's pic ain't skeleton cave... skeleton has a much bigger collapse opening with now boulders littering the enterance (there is only PBR cans and tires littering it) i think the pict is of wind cave that has the neato skylight enterance.

[klenke]

The pic was actually mine.

You are absolutely right, timmy. The entrance shot is of Wind Cave. Here is another image of it found on the web:

I must have mislabeled the photo after I scanned it, or been confused in some other way. Forgive me. It was 15 years ago I was there.

[tivoli_mike]

"It's difficult to tell how much time passes when you're listening to a solo from the depths of Hades."

 

OK, this is not what I should be reading when its late on a Sunday night... The story is pretty gripping.

 

Much like an old H.P. Lovecraft story

Edited March 7, 2005 by tivoli_mike

[marylou]

I went in that Skeleton Cave once. it was Cree Pee in there!

[gapertimmy]

no shiz, that story gave me some bad dreams, read that last night and my big ass dog came into the room right at the end freaked the shite out of me