What would you consider the most difficult surface entry into a known cave system ?
ie: Mills Creek(Alachua)
Jakes hole (Ft. White)
etc..........................> ?
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What would you consider the most difficult surface entry into a known cave system ?
ie: Mills Creek(Alachua)
Jakes hole (Ft. White)
etc..........................> ?
La Mescla to the north of Nice France. Couple hundred yards of running down a highway with gear. Then dry caving another couple hundred yards. Including crossing a 60' drop on a piece of railroad rail. Then crawling on your knees across jagged rocks to cross the first sump. Did it three times, that was enough.
Fontanazzi, north east Italy. Climb down a hill, then an extension ladder. Gear up in boulders and rocks in a small pool. Then dive into the cave next to WWII ordinance that was dumped there at the end of the war. There is a hand grenade in the entrance just below where you gear up.
Sure there are other more nasty places, but I'd venture to say none of them are in Florida.
For all that work there had better be naked women and a buffet when you get to the cave.Quote:
Originally Posted by caverkevin
I vote a buffet of naked women.
Anywhere in North Central Florida during hunting season.
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Politics make some of the Florida caves damn hard to enter.
1. Weeki Wachee
2. Twin Dees
LmfaoQuote:
Originally Posted by JamesK
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I can't base this on personal experience, but having talked to other cavers who HAVE been there,
I would have to vote for Weeki Wachee.
I was there last week. Took me two attempts just to get down into the cavern. No way was I gonna make it past 70 feet.Quote:
Originally Posted by gschaut
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Huautla, or J2 come to mind :-) It takes over a week just to get the dive gear from the entrance to the first sump.
only if there is a sneeze guard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superlyte27
Fowlers Horror hole....(Forrest you've done this one?)
Bonnet, when mama is home !!!!! ;-)
Oranage grove circa1990 busted my ass and plexy light canister on those rocks
Weeki Wachee may be a @#$% of a cave, but the OW has some of the nicest "scenery" in Florida.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesK
But do you have to sell your soul to get on the permit?Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
That would be Lechuguilla cave.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenwood_60
+1!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop
Naked men. And all you can eat lobster, actually lobster Mac and cheese.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superlyte27
Bathtub Spring following a guy with 104 sidemounts!!!
104s in Bathtub? Bet it looks like a breach birth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay
Ha! Yes it does! Very appropriate description.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop
Usually not as much blood though.
Does anyone know the current owners? That is probably the one piece of property I would love to own!
Do you mean Jess's Hole? http://www.caveatlas.com/systems/system.asp?ID=184Quote:
Originally Posted by JE
In Florida, my toughest cave entrance (exit is actually more dangerous IMO) was Weeki.
Yeshish ! Tanks !Quote:
Originally Posted by Walter Pickel