8/7/2015
Thanks to you lovely people here at UER I was able to make my first REAL adventure, one (or more...?) of you kindly accompanied accompanied me through the crack and into the cave. There were 4-5 people one of which I know uses UER for sure, not sure about the rest.. But anyways, with a fresh pack of extra batteries and cold bottle of water now in hand I could begin the adventure. Only after having to clean corrosion off the the contacts of my leaking, shitty car battery with a can of coke and my pocket knife in the parking lot of Walgreens....
so..
A short freeway drive and a few turns later, I found myself near The Place, and it being a gorgeous Friday evening, I found myself taking several more turns in search of an open parking spot. I parked and walked to the meeting spot and sat on the steps for a few minutes and waited for them to arrive. Once they did and introductions were made we went down to the river and waded in the nasty sack-deep water, underneath The Thing, and through The Crack. The Crack was lacking in wiggle room and was hard, cramped, kind of sharp, and wet. It also had some of the coolest mineral formations I have ever seen. The cave its self was absolutely amazing with its formations, giant century old wooden pillars and carved limestone tunnels. Myself and two other guys went down the tunnel and had a few good laughs at the bizarre noises the shin-deep mud would make as we squelched through it. One of them described it as "like walking through crisco" which was an accurate statement. Once we turned around and made it back to the main part of the cave I went and climbed around a bit and took some pictures with my cellpotato and took in all the sights, sounds, smells, and feels of the cave. It was all quite beautiful. Flowstone covered everything, walls, ceiling, wooden pillars. The water in the various sized pools was crystal clear. It has been said before by others like us, but it is indeed amazing how just a few feet below the surface of a city the only noises are the dripping of the cave and the voices of fellow humans occasionally. One of the others was taking actual pictures with an actual camera, which hopefully well see here. We all did our thing, talked, looked at cool shit, appreciated the place we were in and then headed back through the crack. It seemed shorter the second time. We exited The Crack and looked around The Thing for a minute then slogged back through the nuts-deep nastwater up to the park. We chatted for a while then went our separate ways.
This was an awesome experience and I met a lot of cool people, one of which happens to go to the same university I will be beginning at in a few weeks which was awesome, the more people you know the better. I also thank a certain member of the forum for helping this whole thing happen, I didn't want to name you in the post so ill leave that one up you.
heres some pictures. One of those flowstone formations dripped down probably as far as my hand is wide. Most of the pics are of mineral formations, i apologize for no descriptions and stuff.
http://imgur.com/a/uMJTR
