It's always fun taking people to their first vertical cave.
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@sunguramy
Gardener's Gut was my first vertical cave, though to start with we just stayed on the upper levels. Only to do that you had to climb part way down a ladder, step across to the other side of the passage, with the stream way down in the darkness below you, them scramble back up. I would have been about 11 or 12. Later on we did longer trips, climbing all the way down to the stream. I think the pitch is the one about 20 seconds in on this vid. By the time I did SRT in a cave my big sister had already taken me sport climbing, so I was used to harnesses and hanging around on ropes. I did get a vivid example on my first rope trip of the importance of getting on the correct side of the rope on a pull through trip though. Haven't done much caving since. -
@sunguramy
Gardener's Gut was my first vertical cave, though to start with we just stayed on the upper levels. Only to do that you had to climb part way down a ladder, step across to the other side of the passage, with the stream way down in the darkness below you, them scramble back up. I would have been about 11 or 12. Later on we did longer trips, climbing all the way down to the stream. I think the pitch is the one about 20 seconds in on this vid. By the time I did SRT in a cave my big sister had already taken me sport climbing, so I was used to harnesses and hanging around on ropes. I did get a vivid example on my first rope trip of the importance of getting on the correct side of the rope on a pull through trip though. Haven't done much caving since.This post is deleted! -
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@sunguramy @RedRobyn Coming from caveless Finland, learning #caving required travelling. There were no SRT instructors around, so our SRT training came from online videos and experimentation.
My first vertical trip almost ended in a rescue due to the homebuilt prusik knots not working well for a 20 metre underground ascent. We got out in the end, but the ascent took us 90 minutes + all our strength.
Six months after that we paid a British mate to fly over and teach us. These days I teach SRT.
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@sunguramy wow, what a view! Where is that?
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@sunguramy wow, what a view! Where is that?
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