woody's room
i'm planning a stage dive up to woody's room via the peanut tunnel and had a couple of questions. first, are there any preferred or generally accepted places to drop a stage on this route? second, what is the cave like up there? the map makes it look smallish and we will be in back mount. i imagine it to be like the Martz off shoot. any tips or suggestions are appreciated.
Think about who the room is named after, then ask yourself if you really think you're getting there in back mountOriginally Posted by the dude
thats what i thought, but you can't always tell what the cave is going to be like from the scale on those maps. is it side mount only? if so, i don't want to waste a day of diving to find out. a heads up would be appreciated.
It wasn't until the way back on the dive that we realised the "room" was the part of the dive when we were able to bend our legs up into a modified flutter kick. The rest of the dive you basically have no room for that.
The reason no one said "it isn't backmountble" is becasue "backmountable" is a relative judgement call.
Backmount or sidemount the point is not to touch or mark the cave. Having sidemount tanks bumping and dragging across the roof is not a good thing any more than doubles bumping the roof.
I tend to think that a skilled diver on backmount can go "most" places a sidemount diver can go without marking the cave.
I could hardly say the dive was "sidemount only" when my buddy and I did it in backmount.
The dude: congratulations on your dive! I used to share stories about dives that "are backmountable". People warned me not to. But it turns out that saying something "is backmountable" is like telling some people that you just carefully drove a sports car under a bridge so anyone who just bought a dump truck thinks they can fit also.
Anyway "good dive"!
It's a skill dive. I can't remember much particularly interesting I saw but I remember being pretty excited about doing it well.(I think there was a tiny 1' mud-hole with a line running thru it at the end where we turned around - still wondering if the "room" could possibly be farther thru that hole. As I said we figured out what the "room" was on the way back.)
It's was a long dive: 150 min. I do remember the ranger was waiting for us when we surfaced... oops!
Hasn't Woody been known to tie the line to a rock a chuck it through restrictions like that?
Affectionately known as "Woody-the-Worm" since he could get through anything, it seemed.Think about who the room is named after, then ask yourself if you really think you're getting there in back mount
Pretty nasty dive,and unsure of the line conditions in that area. Talk to Bill Rennaker,he did the survey there and has the best info,and stories.
"Not all change is improvement...but all improvement is change" Donald Berwick
Do not attempt this dive unless you are a very experienced sidemount diver and enjoy sidemount restrictions.
Lee
Welcome back.
Joe
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