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This is the part that no one understands if they haven't been in caves.

It isn't like the movies or Star Trek stuff where you walk around on floors like WalMart. You go up and down and all around, climb rocks, and go back down again. You squeeze through tiny holes on your hands and knees and enter a larger hole. Even recognizing the slit of a rock you climbed through to get to that larger hole is impossible, if you think you can just retrace your steps. And it is totally, completely pitch black. You can't enter a cavern, survey the situation, and say, "Oh, there's that little hole we climbed through to get here!" , because you can only see with whatever light you have allows you to see.

I bigdopedly did it at VTbut only did it once. We had a "guide", too (LOL).

[Post edited by Coach McGuirk at 07/07/2018 7:56PM]

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Posted: 07/07/2018 at 7:53PM

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