Jeremiah survived Mammoth Cave
11 December 2006 in Blog | Comments enabled

I just got back from Kentucky where I went to Mammoth Cave and took the Wild Cave Tour.

It is “the most intense guided tour of any of the National Parks” according to my guides Ben and Taylor. I really can’t believe the U.S. Government allows these tours. I faced danger several times during the 6 hours in the “long dark of Moria.”

We climbed up and down boulders. We crawled and slithered under rocks and through mud.

The most intense part of the trip was a period of time where we were crawling through passages only 9 inches tall.

Before going in, I had to pick which side I wanted my head turned to because I wouldn’t be able to move it until I got to the other side. The No Name Pass was the most challenging of all the crawls I did. I got my helmet wedged in once and nearly lost my nerve but I kept going.

It was an amazing trip. Thank God, I lived to talk about it. Click on the pictures to see them bigger.

(Thanks to Rob Reid from New York for taking the pictures. Unfortunately, he broke his camera while in the cave.)