chucK Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Is caving climbing? Man that claustrophobia shit freaks me out. check this out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Me in the Skeleton Cave crawl (near Bend, OR): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 The entrance to Skeleton Cave (it's a lava tube): {see Sobo's post below for pic} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 That can't be the entrance to Skeleton Cave There are no bolts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 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)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 What do you call inching your way forward while on your back? Missionary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 The Worm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogen Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Yeah, I enjoyed that story immensely! I actually jumped when the phone rang. I loved the ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Y_L_E Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldManRock Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Cavers rescue spelunkers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmace Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 so what happens? is there no end ??? if that last page is the end, then Ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Yeah, WTF is that all about? That's just bullshit! What about MY closure???!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 I've always wondered if there is a feature in a cave somewhere called Thin Man's Misery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 more likely to be at the burger shack than in the cave or in the sack with fat girlfriend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gapertimmy Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tivoli_mike Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 (edited) "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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marylou Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 I went in that Skeleton Cave once. it was Cree Pee in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gapertimmy Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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