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GroundquestMSA wrote:After digging it open, I did the deepest pit in my county solo
It were a 47-footer.
I think that more people should try solo caving, vertical and otherwise. It is a completely different experience than caving with company and while potentially more risky, it's extremely fulfilling.
Greg Jones wrote:GroundquestMSA wrote:After digging it open, I did the deepest pit in my county solo
It were a 47-footer.
I think that more people should try solo caving, vertical and otherwise. It is a completely different experience than caving with company and while potentially more risky, it's extremely fulfilling.
From what you have said here, GroundquestMSA, it sounds like your style of caving is similar to Floyd Collins' who explored uncharted caves solo also. Let's hope you don't end up like him. Of course, I am sure you don't run as much of a risk as he did exploring caves that could potentially go for miles in Kentucky while you do most of your exploring in Ohio, I assume, where the caves are fairly small for the most part I would think.
GroundquestMSA wrote:Greg Jones wrote:GroundquestMSA wrote:After digging it open, I did the deepest pit in my county solo
It were a 47-footer.
I think that more people should try solo caving, vertical and otherwise. It is a completely different experience than caving with company and while potentially more risky, it's extremely fulfilling.
From what you have said here, GroundquestMSA, it sounds like your style of caving is similar to Floyd Collins' who explored uncharted caves solo also. Let's hope you don't end up like him. Of course, I am sure you don't run as much of a risk as he did exploring caves that could potentially go for miles in Kentucky while you do most of your exploring in Ohio, I assume, where the caves are fairly small for the most part I would think.
That's a thoroughly comical comparison, and I'm not sure how it's intended. It would be a great compliment to be thought of as an explorer with Collins' fearlessness, which I certainly am not. Floyd's name comes up mostly in cautionary settings these days though, and I guess that's what you were driving at. This is fallacious. The fact that Collins did a lot of things now (and probably then) considered reckless, does not make his death a lesson for future cavers. His entrapment had absolutely nothing to do with his caving methods, with his being alone, or his carrying what we would now deem to be to be inadequate equipment. It was a freak occurence that was probably mismanaged by and overwhelming to the rescue mob. Indeed, let's hope I don't end up like him. You're right, the caves of Ohio are very small. My most enjoyable solo caving has been in KY, in Carter and Rockcastle counties. The distance traveled and the obstacles overcome definitely add to the profound solitude that is, I think, the most uniquely unsettling and appealing aspect of solo caving. That's why I think that doing a cave like Ellisons solo would be a genuinely moving experience.
caverdan wrote:Over the years.....I have found......any time you mention solo caving in front of a bunch of cavers.....expect ridicule.
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