Anyone Else Not A Cave Person?

[Wish Upon A Star]

I really really hate caves! I guess I am very claustrophobic. Our last trip to WDW we went over to Tom Sawyer's Island and I attempted to go into the cave over by where you can see BTMRR. I got halfway in and my heart started pounding and I felt I couldn't breathe and I had to turn around . . .reminded me of when I was little and my parents took me to NH and they took me to the caverns and there was this cave with something called "the lemon squeeze" and I remember feeling the same way there.

Anyone else get like that in caves?

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Originally posted by Wish Upon A Star
I really really hate caves! I guess I am very claustrophobic. Our last trip to WDW we went over to Tom Sawyer's Island and I attempted to go into the cave over by where you can see BTMRR. I got halfway in and my heart started pounding and I felt I couldn't breathe and I had to turn around . . .reminded me of when I was little and my parents took me to NH and they took me to the caverns and there was this cave with something called "the lemon squeeze" and I remember feeling the same way there.

Anyone else get like that in caves?

The Lemon Squeeze at Lost River? Yikes, I felt like I was going to suffocate in there....and caves don't usually bother me. But I can tell you...that was the last cave I ever went into.

 

[Serena]

I'm not fond of caves, but I can handle it. I've went on two caves trips. One was on a boat, it lasted about 30 minutes. Another time was a walking tour. It was two hours underground. It was constantly either uphill or downhill and frankly by the end I was more concerned if my legs would carry me out rather than being concerned with the cave itself.

 

[luckywife]

Nope, I don't care for caves. First time I went in one was about 4 or 5 years ago. DH has always loved them so I decided to give it a try to see if there was something I'd been missing. I didn't feel the way you described but it made me very uncomfortable and I couldn't wait to go back outside. That was my first and last trip in to a cave.

 

[monkeyboy]

spelunking

 

[Buckalew11]

I've been in Tuckaleechee Caverns near here many times. I don't think I'd ever venture in a cave up in the Smokies though.
DH won't even go in the caverns! He'll go in burning buildings but n caverns.

 

[SC Minnie]

NO caves for me. They really freak me out. I feel like they are going to fall in or something. O guess I am just claustrophobic or somthing. But I can't do the caves at Tom Sawyers Island either.

 

[Octoberbeauty]

We have some great (huge) caves here - Blanchard Springs Caverns- that I've been through many times in my lifetime. I was 8 the first time I ever went and my dad carried me the whole way through. lol But after that I've been okay. Now, I just think of how heavy my 5 yr olds are and wonder how he ever did it! I love my dad.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

My husband hates caves. MY DD's wanted to a cavern while on vacation one year. My husband waited 2 hours outside where there was nothing to do. I thought it was okay, if I don't go to another one it wouldn't bother me.

 

[Keli]

It's a good thing you didn't grow up in this area, lol. Mammouth Cave is the perenial school trip around here for the elementary schools (that an the apple orchards, lol). Needless to say, I've been through Mammouth cave way too many times to count but I always enjoy it. There is a place called 'fat man's misery' but it's really not bad because it's only tight from the waist down, about three ft from the cave floor it widens up into a large cavern so you don't really feel all squeezed in or anything. Love Mammouth cave!

 

[Pop Daddy]

I dont think I would like a cave but I like how the cave man picked up women

 

[FroggyinArk]

Originally posted by monkeyboy
spelunking

some how i pictured you more as a tree lurker than spelunker

 

[monkeyboy]

Originally posted by FroggyinArk
some how i pictured you more as a tree lurker than spelunker

Well Froggy it's not often you can toss out a word like that...in it's proper context

 

[FroggyinArk]

Originally posted by Octoberbeauty
my dad carried me the whole way through. lol But after that I've been okay.

I loved blanchard springs too my dad carried me through at 5 havent been in a long time( 87 was my last trip) need to bring dw and dd up , theyve never been in the springs or to devils den,, i really do need to start going farther north in state than hot springs

 

[FroggyinArk]

Originally posted by monkeyboy
Well Froggy it's not often you can toss out a word like that...in it's proper context

true

 

[browneyes]

The only thing I don't like about caves is how my kids squeeze the blood out of my hands when they hear there might be a bat or 2 inside the caves. My SO loves to go on cave tours.

 

[monkeyboy]

Originally posted by browneyes
My SO loves to go on cave tours.

 

[Blondie]

Caves are cool! I recommend Luray Caverns here in Virginia.

 

[Geoff_M]

spelunking

The term "spelunker" and "spelunking" in the subterranean world usually refers to a "novice". There's a saying amoung cavers that "the difference between cavers and spelunkers is that cavers rescue spelunkers." I very much enjoy wild caves. But nowadays I only get to go about once a year in my old stomping grounds in the karst regions of Southern Indiana. I've been in crawlways with ceilings so low that I couldn't stand my feet straight up and down! There was a passage that I used to go through (now plugged with debris) that was so narrow that I had to put my arms up over my head so my chest would fit through! Fun stuff. You get muddy from head to toe, go "swimming" in 55 degree water occasionally, even from time to time go through water passages with only a few inches of air space between the water and the ceiling (known as "sucking spiders"!).

www.caves.org

 

[Blondie]

Geoff, you're a hardcore caver! No thanks to all of that! If it isn't a guided tour where I can walk through (as opposed to crawling), I'm not going!