the term spelunking was first coined by clay perry here in western massachusetts. clay perry formed the first grotto , grotto number one. the national speleological society was formed here also. clay was a writer who was hired by franklin roosevelt during the depression to be his writer. k.g.c. used newspapers to deliver information around the country right under everyones noses, any guesses who has that job now?ill tell you this , he writes in the secret book , that is located in the white house. and you all think movies are not based on reality. this is a bit of a squeeze , and a bit chilly 41 degree water. these are the types of areas that need to be searched. yes caves are dangerous, no place for wimps, death can happen in caves.
For Me! (& Bugs)
Give "Us", one of them NM/Ariz/Cal., Dry Type Caves (caverns)
BuT!
Darn the Luck!
If! Even the serious (deep) ones out there, aren't "wet!" Too!
We'll be in lots of them, "if" and "when", I ever get The Jeep running
& Get out there!
(I'm completely rebuilding & modifying IT!)
I'll take plenty of picures and post them here ....... ?
(someday?!)
Cool I grew up caving and rope climbing. Its great fun. Nice to see pictures. I wishe we would of had the cameras of today when I climbed. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
TnMtns
Great site! We have some great caves were I live in Italy, I will have to take my camera and post some pictures. I don't get to cave hunt all to often but I was in a cave a few weeks ago that seemed to be carved by natural springs, I was amazed by the amount of crystal I saw and rock formations.
oh man great pics cool. Shrink em down just a little bit. I ran across this pic of me like 20 years ago doing cash canyon pit. Notice the bell bottoms thats all we did as kids was climb and cave. I did some serious cave repels for a few years. My cousin who I climbed with set three world records on ropes. One at Mount Thor for the worlds longest repell and later on Angel Falls. Enjoy this topic. Ok here is an oldie pic notice all the cuting edge gear we had
Excellant pics. We used to do a lot of our caving in the winter. Sometimes we would enter through a water source and would be frozen till we hit the water inside the cave. That felt like bath water then. You know the tourist trap in Tennessee called" See Rock City and Ruby Falls"? We used to do the lower caverns off Ruby Falls. Found a Saber tooth tiger skull and a cave bears skull embedded in the calcification. They eventually closed it off but it had some great drops in it.
Nice pictures. I might do a cave on some land I lease and will try to get some pics.
Thanks for sharing
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thats all we did as kids was climb and cave. I did some serious cave repels for a few years. My cousin who I climbed with set three world records on ropes. One at Mount Thor for the worlds longest repell and later on Angel Falls. Enjoy this topic. Ok here is an oldie pic notice all the cuting edge gear we had 
