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Chads93GT wrote:Well. I have a synthetic bag that I would use in the cave, as i have a brand new big agnes 15 degree bag and matress ($300) that I use for camping. Anyway its light and it compacts SMALL. I also have my thermorest 1.5" pad that i also use. I was going to haul my dry clothes, bag, pad, etc, into the cave in my seal line 115 bag. The cave is extremely wet. there are a few 4"-6" ear dippers to swim under, and about 1500 feet of water crawling . It sucks.
I figured it would be just like camping, so most of what you listed didnt suprise me.
The only thing I wonder about is taking my hiking water filter in. Granted its a river cave, but im not sure about filtering the river water, only if we have to of course. Its a Katadyn system, says it gets bacteria, protozoa, and giardia, but what about ecoli? Granted we would have a ton of water already at the camp, so it would only have to be used as a last resort.
do you guys ever bother taking tents in?
Chads93GT wrote:Well the camp site is 2 mile upstream and we saw a ton of bats sunday when we found the spot, they were squaking at us pretty good, lol. I just dont want bat shit in my mouth while sleeping. To me its an unnecessary piece of gear to haul 2 miles up a crappy river cave, even if it is floating in my dry bag. Thanks for the input everyone!
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I dont want to get in there and be like, jee, wish we would have brought "xxx" with us. And no I dont mean porn. ;)
Please give me your advice, I'd appreciate it.
Dumps what?Chads93GT wrote:Yeah I definately wont drink any water in the caves in this area. Ive heard that groundwater contamination is pretty bad, besides my own house dumps into a sink hole, just like about every other house in this town (brewer) and most of the country houses. There are no known caves pointed out on the maps immediately around brewer but still............probably flows into berome lol
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