[LMB] OT: March issue Popular Mechanics

[Tzivia Adler]

> On 3/10/08, Francis Turner <francis.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The caves I've always preferred ... where you
>> enter these large underground spaces where your light doesn't do much
>> except show that there is a lot of space and/or where you see the
>> little fireflies up above/down below and realize that they're fellow
>> cavers...
>
that sounds so creepy to me...   i enormously enjoy other people talking 
enthusiasticcally about doing things that would terrify me if i physically 
tried it, but its nice to know that some people really do.
>
> I've been to the largest rooms in North America and while they are neat,
> especially from a structural geological perspective, I prefer technical
> caves, especially where we are opening up new ones.  ...  This cave 
> connected to
> two other nearby caves and we took a little nothing of a cave and turned 
> it
> into the ninth longest cave in the US at over 35 miles.  ...
> I really enjoy mazey systems where just navigating can be difficult.
>
> Anmar Mirza EMT, N9ISY, Central Region NCRC Coordinator
>
whats a technical cave?  how do you open them?  how do caves connect, 
through tunnels or other caves?  i don't know much about cave systems, 
beyond what nevada barr wrote in her anna pigeon books (whether its correct 
or not, i have no idea.)

and, what's the difference between a cave, a cavern, and rooms in a cave?

ziviya, armchair explorer