And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
What Grog said x 4. Raise the bet all you want my narrow ass ain't going in. There is only one hole but much smaller that that one I would even consider entering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAY-t32vyds video of trying to get out of it.Note that the main entrance to the cave is in a 3 m sink just out of camera view, but you don't get any cave cred for strolling through the big entrance.
Deep Cave is still being explored and mapped in an ongoing survey project begun in 1999 and has over 5.3 km (3.3 miles) of passages and a depth of 78.3 m (257 ft). Passages tend to alternate between tight crawls and spacious rooms with multiple leads. The cave is highly decorated with crystalline helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, columns, flowstone, draperies, moonmilk, and popcorn, and many of these formations are either partially translucent or richly colorful.
Deep Cave is located on the Deep and Punkin Nature Preserve and is one of many Texas caves owned and managed by the Texas Cave Management Association (TCMA), a non-profit cave conservancy. Some of these caves are protected as home to unique and endangered creatures. Other TCMA caves are routinely used for a variety of purposes by cavers, the general public, youth groups, and rescue training groups. TCMA also provides management, conservation, and education information to individual, groups, organizations, and governmental agencies. For more information, or if you would like to donate or volunteer, please visit their website at www.tcmacaves.org.
If you would like to get started caving in the United States (and don't worry--not all caves are this tight), check out the National Speleological Society (NSS) at www.caves.org. There you can find a local chapter, called a Grotto, where experienced cavers can teach you all about caving, gear, safety, etc., and get you started caving!
In this video, the participants are, in order: TJ Tidwell (fail although his sunglasses made it), Tom Rogers (fail although he made it up the hole earlier), Chris Lafferty (successful and also featured in the GIF circling the Internet), Caleb Mayeux (successful), Ray Hertel (fail), Ryan Monjaras (successful feet first), Mallory Mayeux (failed although she's always a success at being charming and beautiful), Caleb Mayeux again (fail headfirst), and Ryan Monjaras again. For the record, yes, Ryan completed the squeeze headfirst. Unfortunately, my DSLR ran out of space before his success was captured on video.
YUP, "boy ain't right". Any thought caving was erased after viewing a mid-'50's TV docu-drama of the death of Floyd Collins. Collins was a avid cave explorer in Kentucky. In 1925 he was trapped and died from exposure in what became known as Mammoth Cave. Big news at the time, it rivaled any similar latter day news story such as the Chilean miners or the child in Texas that was trapped in a well head in 1987.
No and hell no
ReplyDeleteYou mean like right at the end, where he has to inhale to make himself fit. I freaked out just watching it.
DeleteDamn well be another exit, he is not getting out of there unassisted otherwise, and pray it does not rain.
ReplyDeleteThese guys are just a smidgen better than those that scale those sheer granite walls.
ReplyDeleteWhat Matthew said. X4
ReplyDeleteWhat Grog said x 4. Raise the bet all you want my narrow ass ain't going in. There is only one hole but much smaller that that one I would even consider entering.
DeleteI don't mind small places, but would worry couldn't get out without a jackhammer
ReplyDeleteCue the rattlesnake in 3, 2, 1.....
ReplyDeleteThey should have covered him in butter, that way a giant lobster would avoid him.
ReplyDeleteGreg, are you acquainted with Rodger de Swanns?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAY-t32vyds
ReplyDeletevideo of trying to get out of it.Note that the main entrance to the cave is in a 3 m sink just out of camera view, but you don't get any cave cred for strolling through the big entrance.
Deep Cave is still being explored and mapped in an ongoing survey project begun in 1999 and has over 5.3 km (3.3 miles) of passages and a depth of 78.3 m (257 ft). Passages tend to alternate between tight crawls and spacious rooms with multiple leads. The cave is highly decorated with crystalline helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, columns, flowstone, draperies, moonmilk, and popcorn, and many of these formations are either partially translucent or richly colorful.
Deep Cave is located on the Deep and Punkin Nature Preserve and is one of many Texas caves owned and managed by the Texas Cave Management Association (TCMA), a non-profit cave conservancy. Some of these caves are protected as home to unique and endangered creatures. Other TCMA caves are routinely used for a variety of purposes by cavers, the general public, youth groups, and rescue training groups. TCMA also provides management, conservation, and education information to individual, groups, organizations, and governmental agencies. For more information, or if you would like to donate or volunteer, please visit their website at www.tcmacaves.org.
If you would like to get started caving in the United States (and don't worry--not all caves are this tight), check out the National Speleological Society (NSS) at www.caves.org. There you can find a local chapter, called a Grotto, where experienced cavers can teach you all about caving, gear, safety, etc., and get you started caving!
In this video, the participants are, in order: TJ Tidwell (fail although his sunglasses made it), Tom Rogers (fail although he made it up the hole earlier), Chris Lafferty (successful and also featured in the GIF circling the Internet), Caleb Mayeux (successful), Ray Hertel (fail), Ryan Monjaras (successful feet first), Mallory Mayeux (failed although she's always a success at being charming and beautiful), Caleb Mayeux again (fail headfirst), and Ryan Monjaras again. For the record, yes, Ryan completed the squeeze headfirst. Unfortunately, my DSLR ran out of space before his success was captured on video.
“There’s something wrong with that boy” - my grandfather
ReplyDeleteYUP, "boy ain't right".
ReplyDeleteAny thought caving was erased after viewing a mid-'50's TV docu-drama of the death of Floyd Collins. Collins was a avid cave explorer in Kentucky. In 1925 he was trapped and died from exposure in what became known as Mammoth Cave. Big news at the time, it rivaled any similar latter day news story such as the Chilean miners or the child in Texas that was trapped in a well head in 1987.
As Bunkie would say, "If you're lookin' for me, you don't have to look there."
ReplyDeleteMore "No" than the world can contain.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a girl I knew in high school.
ReplyDeleteThat deep, was she? 8^)
DeleteBunkie, had it nailed! I won't be there or any other mind numb place!
ReplyDeleteNope. Nope. Nopity fucking nope.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes Bunkie nailed it.
Hope he has a better way out.
ReplyDeleteI caved in my younger years but that one would have stopped me.
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