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    Default Cow Springs 2/29/12

    Cow is unlimited viz and very low flow for cow. I didn't even use the ski rope on the way in.

    I swam up to "not my fault" and went down the dead end jump line then turned around and completed the little circuit back to the gold line.

    One thing I noticed headed down the dead end line. A full foot print in the clay, I have to ask how in the hell do you make a full flat foot print in the clay when the cave passage is only 1.5-2' tall in that section? This person is more flexible than I.


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    It sounds like a perfectly lovely trip!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaveMD View Post
    Cow is unlimited viz and very low flow for cow. I didn't even use the ski rope on the way in.

    I swam up to "not my fault" and went down the dead end jump line then turned around and completed the little circuit back to the gold line.

    One thing I noticed headed down the dead end line. A full foot print in the clay, I have to ask how in the hell do you make a full flat foot print in the clay when the cave passage is only 1.5-2' tall in that section? This person is more flexible than I.
    Footprint or fin print?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaveMD View Post
    Cow is unlimited viz and very low flow for cow. I didn't even use the ski rope on the way in.

    I swam up to "not my fault" and went down the dead end jump line then turned around and completed the little circuit back to the gold line.

    One thing I noticed headed down the dead end line. A full foot print in the clay, I have to ask how in the hell do you make a full flat foot print in the clay when the cave passage is only 1.5-2' tall in that section? This person is more flexible than I.
    Probably done by the same douchebag who wrote "DIC" in the claybank several years ago - or one of his ilk.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Squirrel Girl View Post
    Footprint or fin print?
    Looked like a drysuit boot

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    Wonderful! So someone either got in to a really bad Charlie Foxtrot, or they purposely took off a fin, flipped upside down, and then stepped down? #SMH

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    Took my LP 45's up the two syphon passages for some wiggle wiggle wiggle time. Never dove downstream before. Some of those passages get pretty gnarly. One of them I couldn't get through and took my can light off and wiggled through eventually. I probably looked funny as hell swimming with the can and head in my right hand while holding the line with the left. I ended up turning around not long after since the syphon is just bad enough the crap gets in front of you but doesn't clear if you wait a second.

    Just swam to the end of the other gold line and down the fissure crack. Same problem with crap flowing out in front of me where I couldn't see my gauge pressed against my mask and said eff it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesK View Post
    Wonderful! So someone either got in to a really bad Charlie Foxtrot, or they purposely took off a fin, flipped upside down, and then stepped down? #SMH
    Just fishing, maybe they accidentally lost a fin?

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    Quote Originally Posted by diveconjeff View Post
    Just fishing, maybe they accidentally lost a fin?
    True. That goes along with the "really bad Charlie Foxtrot" statement.

    Which way was the footprint pointing? In or out of the cave?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesK View Post
    True. That goes along with the "really bad Charlie Foxtrot" statement.

    Which way was the footprint pointing? In or out of the cave?
    That's the weirdest part, it looked like it was sideways



 

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