Posted: May 1, 2007 10:03 pm
I always enjoy caving when someone is using carbide. Not my thing, but I like to watch them smack the side, shake it up, cup the hand and make it boom in a big room...
It's a nostalgia thing for sure, b/c carbide is so rare, shipping restrictions etc... and we have LED's. It's funny, when a carbide caver gets asked why they still use it , they always snap about the emergency usefulness of a carbide lamps. I think the real reason is they like the smell and the warm hue of the light, the hissing of the gas...
It's a nostalgia thing for sure, b/c carbide is so rare, shipping restrictions etc... and we have LED's. It's funny, when a carbide caver gets asked why they still use it , they always snap about the emergency usefulness of a carbide lamps. I think the real reason is they like the smell and the warm hue of the light, the hissing of the gas...