Spelunking

[J_Dee]

Do you enjoy it?

As a teen (early '90s), I explored two very easy caves with family guides. I didn't enjoy it and I'll never do it again. My parents took my siblings and me to Mammoth Cave a few times when we were kids. I may visit it again someday.

Stuff like this terrifies me:

 

[WeWant9]

Not for me, and I love to do exploring stuff. If I can’t stand up and walk in, I’m going pass.

I went down a YT rabbit hole of caving once and found it fascinating, but also saw the nutty putty story and said I’ll stick with hiking above ground.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

 

[TuckyFB]

Jesus fkn Christ

That kid died in the worst way possible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

 

[Myotis]

Been doing project caving (exploration, survey, mapping) for 45 years now, mostly in central and eastern Kentucky, but also in West Virginia and Tennessee. Took part in a caving expedition to Costa Rica in ‘89

 

[Creed Bratton]

 

[Hank Camacho]

As a far younger man, my buddies and I would go explore Wind Cave around McKee back when it was open to the public. I generally enjoyed. However, there was one room (the Cathedral?) where you had to low crawl on your belly for about 100 yards before you came into a giant room that opened up like, tada, a cathedral.

It was beautiful once you got there but I could not take being in the middle of a line of guys crawling on their bellies in a hole in the dark. Inevitably someone in front would get stuck and the whole line would cease up. Felt like a trapped animal. Nope.

There was a corkscrew in Wind Cave like the one in the video above. I stuck my head down into just to see. I was young and skinny back then and I had to almost pull my shoulders out of socket to make the first break. Again -- nope.