The last Descent/ John Jones

[silverranger]

Anyone seen this?? Shitty way to go for sure, I have done some stupid shit but cave exploring is not one of them.

Anyone on the board done cave exploring?

[Strychnine]

Havent' seen it, but recently read a long article from the Salt Lake Tribune about it:

part 1: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/07/...utty-i-really/
part 2: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/07/...ty-were-going/

Fuck a bunch of that.

[JC316]

I will do many crazy things, but cave exploring or cave diving is not one of them. I'm a little on the claustrophobic side, and I panic if I get my hand stuck in an engine bay, much less getting my whole body stuck in a cave.

[AnthonyS]

Never done it, and scared to do it. In the Pacific NW the coast is crazy with caves and rocky beaches, and narrow strips of sandy beach. You hear about people that walk into caves only to drown when the tide comes in all the time. That was enough to keep me away.

[Grimpala]

I read Blind Descent a while back, well written book about the two largest known cave systems in the world.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127937159

I also have a good one about Floyd Collins who got trapped trying to find an alternative route into Mammoth Cave. It's pretty good with the details of his situation as well as how the media sensationalized his plight. He lived for something like two weeks below ground, in the same position, his leg was stuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins

[juiceweezl]

When I was in high school, I spent a summer at App. St. for some science and math camp deal. It was a 5 week program. One weekend, we took a guided tour of Grindstaff Cave. It was enough to convince me and 3 others to go back on our own and check out the parts the tour didn't go on. We spent hours crawling around through small spaces and bends. I remember it being very tight through some spaces, and I thought that there was no way I could so something like this when I was older. We got to some place deep in and turned our lights off -- darkest I have ever seen (or not seen) in my life. You literally could not see a hand a few inches in front of your face. I remember that was a scary feeling...right up until I found the girl I was with on the trip...

Anyway, yes, I did years ago on probably some amateur cave stuff. Some of it was tight enough that we had to get a push/pull to get through, and yes, eff a bunch of that now. No way I'd ever do it again.

[JC316]

When I was in high school, I spent a summer at App. St. for some science and math camp deal. It was a 5 week program. One weekend, we took a guided tour of Grindstaff Cave. It was enough to convince me and 3 others to go back on our own and check out the parts the tour didn't go on. We spent hours crawling around through small spaces and bends. I remember it being very tight through some spaces, and I thought that there was no way I could so something like this when I was older. We got to some place deep in and turned our lights off -- darkest I have ever seen (or not seen) in my life. You literally could not see a hand a few inches in front of your face. I remember that was a scary feeling...right up until I found the girl I was with on the trip...

Anyway, yes, I did years ago on probably some amateur cave stuff. Some of it was tight enough that we had to get a push/pull to get through, and yes, eff a bunch of that now. No way I'd ever do it again.

I've done the mine tours in Colorado before, and yeah, when the lights go out, can't see shit captain.

[TX_92_Notch]

Damn. I halfway wish I hadn't read that. I didn't know how it ended and was reading with expectation of rescue. Now I'm down in the dumps.

And hell no, my ass is going nowhere near a cramped cave. Carlsbad or something similar (safe touristy stuff) is as far underground as I'm going.

[Ruffdaddy]

No thanks to all of that. I've done the caves in Georgetown a few times but thats a ballroom compared to this story. And the fact that this place had just been opened back up because of prior deaths makes it sound almost dumb for an out of shape dude. Reminds me of Will Ferrel and Hang Gliding.

Of course I do stupid stuff that risks my safety...but its gonna involve speed. Just scrape whats left of me off the track and resume. No need for an entire crew. /s

[JC316]

No thanks to all of that. I've done the caves in Georgetown a few times but thats a ballroom compared to this story. And the fact that this place had just been opened back up because of prior deaths makes it sound almost dumb for an out of shape dude. Reminds me of Will Ferrel and Hang Gliding.

Of course I do stupid stuff that risks my safety...but its gonna involve speed. Just scrape whats left of me off the track and resume. No need for an entire crew. /s

It's like the idiot scuba divers that try Jacobs Well. Zero training and think they'll be fine. One kick of the bottom and it's zero visibility for the next hour.

[Chas_svo]

Caves can give most claustrophobia, much less reading about tunnel rats in Vietnam. Fuck that!

[Ruffdaddy]

It's like the idiot scuba divers that try Jacobs Well. Zero training and think they'll be fine. One kick of the bottom and it's zero visibility for the next hour.

Man that reminds me. I need to book another Jacob's well visit.

I don't even swim over the top of that fucking hole much less dive into it. But it sure is a cool spot to hike around.

[JC316]

Man that reminds me. I need to book another Jacob's well visit.

I don't even swim over the top of that fucking hole much less dive into it. But it sure is a cool spot to hike around.

I'm dying to go to the San Marcos river. Maybe Jacobs well too. Getting the cabin fever.

[Rick Modena]

Well that sucked...

[Trip McNeely]

When I first moved up here I wanted to find some abandoned coal mines and do some exploring, never did though. Now I wouldn’t be so dumb to do it with a wife and kids and all. Looked like fun, but stupid.