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Post by James T. Kirk on Sept 20, 2022 4:58:24 GMT -6
Just read in the morning paper that a recent discovery of an additional 6 miles of cave puts Mammoth Cave in my home state of Kentucky at 426 miles long. That's just....well MAMMOTH. It was already the longest cave system in the world. It's been a National Park for 50 years. I haven't visited the cave in years.
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Post by lowell on Sept 20, 2022 20:07:43 GMT -6
The closest I came to visiting something like this was Carlsbad Caverns. I was a school kid on vacation with my family. We took a tour. New cave tunnels had been discovered at that time in that system, but they were mostly too small for people to crawl through. Stalactites and stalagmites were the main features that I noticed.
I remember stories of cavers drowning when unexpected rain caused flooding in caves in the Eastern U.S. .
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Post by James T. Kirk on Sept 22, 2022 3:49:46 GMT -6
The closest I came to visiting something like this was Carlsbad Caverns. I was a school kid on vacation with my family. We took a tour. New cave tunnels had been discovered at that time in that system, but they were mostly too small for people to crawl through. Stalactites and stalagmites were the main features that I noticed. I remember stories of cavers drowning when unexpected rain caused flooding in caves in the Eastern U.S. . It's like that at Mammoth. They have more than a half dozen walking tours ranging from 30 minutes to 2.5 hours, but many miles are only accessible to trained spelunkers. About half way through the longest tour they turn out all the lights. It's the darkest dark I've ever experienced.
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