Haha gotta start keeping one of those in my backpack 😂

Yeah part of the reason I’ve stopped posting as much, this is as much as I’ve ever had but like 2 months ago KZbin seemed to stop pushing my content so this channel is prettymuch dead as of recent

@@Mineral_dude well I wish I knew of a way to help. But I really do appreciate you bringing us the videos. I do watch every single video that you upload. Don’t give up man. I know you’re not that type anyway. you’ll figure it out. I wish there was a way that you could enhance the pictures or video where we could actually see better colors and sparkles as you see in real life.

@@Mineral_dude wasn’t it you that used to do the picture time? The enhanced still photos.I miss seeing that.

@@bangthumper3283 ah nah I ain’t worried about it man, I cared a lot at first until I realized social media is dumb af, I’m doing this cause I thoroughly enjoy it, editting a cool trip is super entertaining. I hope cavers can get something out of these videos 🙌

A lot of stuff has been going on I’ve got a big weekend coming up that should result in some serious trips, I’ve stopped recording as much as I used to though

“It’s been there for hundreds of years you have nothing to worry about” is the only thing going through my mind on that rope 😂

Nice one dude.I was a tree monkey for years and wanna get some SRT gear for our coal mine stuff.

“You guys” as if you aren’t one of the guys 😂😂

These guys are dangerous, lol. Here's my channel.

@@funfinding4two955 just subbed. Thanks.

It’s there you gotta hit the more button to drop down the description.

@@bangthumper3283is that what the more button means?? 😂all good. It wasn’t there when I wrote my comment😂.

@@havoc1zero🤷🤦‍♂️

Hey Todd, yeah man I’m NC based but travel to tag alot - hit me up on Instagram I’m always down to meet new people

@@Mineral_dude Cool! I will

Absolutely, thanks for watching!

Thanks man, yeah it was sick 🤘 honestly not as hard as everybody had hyped it up to be but I had been playing around in ellisons for weeks at this point

I guess a number between 8 and 14 everytime I say how long it is.. jk but I feel like I’ve said something different everytime - we’ll go with 26 miles today 👍

Geologically it just makes sense to explore more 💁‍♂️

@@eddie021907 that’s kinda near where I live, I’d love to help you figure out what’s at the bottom? Could you hit me up on Instagram?

@@Mineral_dude I’ll try, but I used to work in cartersville and go out that way installing fences, you could see it on the left leaving cartersville headed out 113! Was a small White House or double wide on left and cave wasn’t probably 200ft from house and maybe 100 ft from the road ! Used to park off the road and walk up! Going straight in, some ways back was a rope to climb up about 20ft and than a huge pit once you reached the top of rope ! No rope going down though into pit, we was kids and no experience with ropes or gear for it! Left it a mystery ! A path at the entrance to the left was a belly crawl for a long way, my buddy almost had a panic attack and got stuck ! Breath out and inch forward , over and over 😂

Dude that’s so funny you bring it up, when I’m editting those in my head I’m like - “don’t leave them up too long it will piss people off” 😂 sorry dude next time I’ll remember this comment

Thanks dude!!!

Haha thank you, it was one of the best I’ve ever had

Idk man honestly my best friend talks very loudly and I noticed after I moved away I also talked very loudly, I think after hanging out with him for many years it just kinda stuck around

I appreciate you man! Best one yet maybe

Dude 8:11 was almost the thumbnail, such a cool shot!!! 31:47 - I know Wes has such a beautiful voice 😂 41:45 - I thought that fucker was going to rip my arm out of its socket when it landed lmaooo

Nah so there’s a 500 footer next to fantastic called Smokey pit (1&2) and then there’s an older caver named smokey who owned fox mountain, well when he died he said he wanted cavers to use it whenever they wanted to FOREVER and the scci bought it and fucked it up by making it where you have to pull permits and can’t camp, shit like that, it makes me angry when I think about it but Smokey’s legend lives on!!!

@@Mineral_dude The old man Smokey was my very good friend. I have camped with him for many years. Seeing this reminded me of his place. He was one bat shit crazy old man! In a good way, lol! Yeah, I and my friends tried to aquire the place to save it from development. He was the reason you guys have ropes long enough to get into some of the deep drops, as he was the one who developed the technology to make them. He told me that he sold the company when he retired, and bought the place. I will love and miss Smokey forever. He was truly a great man. May he rest in peace. P.S. I loved your content, I watched it to the end.

@@Mineral_dude Hey, just found out my Buddy Smoky's place is now a LGBTQ private membership campground. Damn shame. He wanted that cave system open to the caving community forever.

@@howardkanitz4998 what the fuck 😕

@@Mineral_dude That's what I said. Smokey died, and his family sold it off to the highest bidders. He was a really fun guy, but would never have let this happen. I am sure if his family would have known, they would not have sold it to them.

I've been gliding off that ridge at Pigeon. Exciting. Lot of thermals.

Hey could you message me on Instagram? I linked my profile in my bio, I’d love to learn more about both those things

@Mineral_dude I don't have instagram at present. But I'll get it. Will be late today or possibly in a few days. Hiking. Coverage very spotty. Near Brasstown bald at present. I don't do caves myself. Uncontrollable levels of fear about that. Snowboard & ski, used to skydive, scuba, polevault for pity's sake. But no caves. Just be careful. Hypothermia is a real thing, and real dangerous. Guy got hung up in ropes undr one of the waterfalls and died of exposure before they could resucue him.

Nah it’s mammoth cave

Right back atcha buddy 🤙

Dude grab a shovel and some hammer drills and make your own cave 💪 nah that sucks no caves are around but shit I appreciate you tuning in! If you’re ever in the tag area hit me up

Thank you 🙏

Wes is the man 💪🤘

You didn’t watch it in full??? Jeez thanks for messing up my audience retention BRO

Hope you enjoyed ❤️

@@Mineral_dude The video was great! “Problem” is there's nothing to wish for me anymore now since you just did the most extreme cave trip possible in the US. Huge respect for it! I've only 1 wish left but that's a very big one. In Europe we have Veryovkina Cave, the deepest cave in the world. If you are ever close please try to go as deep as you can 🙏

Idk I think it was a vacuum line to the charcoal canister