Thanks. Cool account if the solo trip. Made me feel as if I was there. This is more or less the type if cave I was asking about as to a easy cave to do a solo trip.
Others have contributed solo trips I feel are well beyond what I was asking about. Being alone in the water crawl is an easy place to scare you good due to noises. I have enjoyed the really interesting solo trips cavers have admitted to. At first all I got was the absolute negative but everyone is beginning to loosen up. Yes. Solo is risky to life thrusting but the point was to find out what others have done. It has been very interesting Thank you Jim Sent from my iPhone On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Phil Winkler <pw...@dca.net> wrote: > Many, many years ago (1973?) I was in Waynesville MO over the Christmas > holiday on leave from the Army. I didn't know any cavers there anymore, but > did want to visit Christmas Cave which is listed in J. Harlan Bretz' Caves of > Missouri. Since it was a horizontal cave I figured I could at least check it > out. > > So I drove up the valley, parked and walked across the field to the cave > entrance which was a large walk-in with standing water in the entrance. > Several cows were sheltering just inside. I crossed the entrance and began > hands and knees crawling the meandering stream bed. I had 3 sources of light, > etc., etc., but I do know I did not feel entirely comfortable. > > After about an hour of crawling the passage seem to be getting smaller and I > was getting tired. Then I turned the next corner and someone had left a small > red & white sign on the side saying "How sweet it is!". I laughed and turned > around to go out. > > As I near the water in the front I heard what sounded like a large flying > something coming from inside the cave and getting closer and closer. I > really, really was creeped out thinking it a huge bat or something. It was an > owl and its wings were echoing off the walls magnifying the sound. > > I've never soloed again. > > Phil > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
