Jacob & I made it past the bottomless pit & beyond the end of the cave.

[@JamesMBC]

They are not only pro cavers, but also pro youtubers. It always amazes me Calvin's ability to take amazing footage in caves. Lighting's on point. Must be one of the few in the world that can do properly both things.

[@EvenDarker]

Thank you! Taking the video is much more difficult than the caving. These caves are cold too so my hands are usually numb.

[@SoggyButtowski]

​@EvenDarker your videos are the best caving videos available. Like a camera crew shot them ❤

[@jamesdoakes4956]

KZbin has a funny way of dividing my subscriptions. Currently, it’ll recommend me these caving videos. Then it will slowly change to politics, then after a week it’ll change to recommending podcasts and media. N eventually it makes it rounds back to these videos. And I’m such a sheep that I don’t even search for channels I’m subbed to I just choose something from my feed to watch lol. Todays the perfect day to go back and rewatch your uploads I missed!

[@EvenDarker]

KZbin knows that most people want variety.

[@dazk6592]

Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to share your adventures, much appreciated brother 👍👍👍

[@ThunderChunky101]

The most beautiful cave here... Wow! Stunning place. There's places that almost no one gets to see and you guys show us them. You get to SEE them! To experience them first hand must be amazing.

[@EvenDarker]

This one is pretty cool for sure.

[@jefffitz5242]

Amazing how there is so much beauty underneath us. Really enjoyed the video. You and Jacob rock.

[@EvenDarker]

Thank you! Yeah this cave is especially nice it was a really fun trip.

[@lizzy6555]

I love that you put the map on the end of the video! ❤ I only have lots of respect and admiration. Thank you for showing us these beautiful places on our magnificent earth!

[@bethriegert4298]

And also good job managing to make it back in and out for a second time. And good luck with all of your caving trips

[@billsanders9387]

So far, our trips in and trips out match.

[@lizzy6555]

Wow ❤ what an amazing cave. What an adventure! I have so much admiration for you two!!! 🤗

[@kuraiuchu]

Wow that's insane how only a tiny crawl tunnel is left available to open up to the groove room! beautiful cave

[@BobthePilot]

Thank both of you for taking the time to video, commentate and share with the rest of us. Awesome discoveries. Personally I enjoy the uncut versions. Keep on thinking ahead. Looking fwd to your next adventure.

[@billsanders9387]

This cave is such a beast, we may never discover all of it’s secrets.

[@MultiDudeman]

Love ur videos more and more the more of them that i watch, also i appreciate the narration of using the equipment or about formations, i feel like im always learning something here, always top quality videos! Thanks for sharing the beauty.

[@MrRed-cf6gk]

Awesome video. You guys rock! Pun intended. I'm at the part where you're showing us your anchors.

[@EvenDarker]

Thanks for the lava.

[@MrRed-cf6gk]

​@@EvenDarker Some beautiful footage you got. Thank you guys.

[@syllomusic]

The only KZbin channel that makes me forget which way is up

[@EvenDarker]

Some of our videos have little arrows for help but it's difficult to do that. Up Is up. Down is down. So easy!

[@lindaarchinal9008]

Very very cool! TY for sharing your adventure here.

[@TheNeonWalker]

What an amazing place. Fantastic video guys. Well done🙂👍

[@rivercitymystery]

Amazing! Great job. And awesome pic of Jacob in that cave!

[@EvenDarker]

Thank you. We made a puzzle out of that picture of jacob! It was very difficult to put together. But we finished. And then I dropped it accidentally.

[@SoggyButtowski]

​@@EvenDarkerclassic

[@leachristesen1334]

Love you too... Wild adventures. Love from Danmark

[@ЮрийХорошилов-с8я]

when you climb love the sound of stones. I even fell asleep. that's how soothing it is.

[@EvenDarker]

Yeah I love the sounds of the scraping rocks. I have a friend who makes completely silent videos. Well there's no talking or narration. He just walks through caves and you can hear all the clunking and clacking of the rocks. The quiet hum of his camera stabilizer.

[@jonboatwright7777]

Really captivating, guys. Great job.

[@BBond88]

Isn’t this main channel content? Insane find 🤘🏼 love it

[@EvenDarker]

This is the unedited version of the video that's on the main channel.

[@saffycatamos]

Beautiful! That is one huge cave guys! I have no sound now? Comes back on around 42:48.

[@EvenDarker]

Some of the video is muted intentionally. I don't remember but sometimes we mute it when we are talking about personal things or locations. It's a very big cave. And we've only explored a small percent of it

[@ThunderChunky101]

It's to cut out the swearing 😉 haha. "ouch I just caught my balls on a f*in sharp rock, dammit f&@# sh&+ c@#& that hurt like a £&@#&!" 😂

[@ThunderChunky101]

​@@EvenDarker personal like "That beeping sharp rock just caught me right in the beeping beep and I beeped my beeping beeeeep!!" 😂

[@dianneharridass4003]

You guys are so brave love from trinidad

[@billsanders9387]

We now have a friend in Trinidad. Thanks for the comment.

[@rajeevramkumar5745]

@@billsanders9387 you have more than 1 :)

[@billsanders9387]

Well, you now have friends in a remote part of Washington State USA. God bless you.

[@DimensionalShadow]

Very awesome cave

[@cinamenlampreau2511]

Its awsome that you teach your nefew how to climb and explore in caves does your whole family explore and what is the most exciting cave you experienced

[@JohnnyQM1]

You 2 are amazing

[@barryvelzel]

Very nice video's you two make. Why didn't you enter the bottemless pit itself?

[@Htrac]

Such an incredible cave.

[@1speleopower]

Fantastic. Do you think anyone has been to this area of the cave before? Epic!!! Love the groove passage. What is the piece of rappel gear you are using? It looks like a Petzl stop with a handle. My Petzl Stop is from about 1993...

[@EvenDarker]

Yeah probably other people have been in there but it is relatively new. The cave is just so big that new areas get discovered. But almost every iteration of the map does not have some of the places we were able to find. And I think that room even goes further but you're limited with time because it takes so long to get in there. Every generation of gear changes. Pretzels new stop decenders are different yet. It's mostly for convenience and safety because the reality is you can still get through most of this cave if you were just really good with a rope.

[@1speleopower]

@@EvenDarker I have some old old video of caves we explored but its on Hi8 tape and maybe some transferred to VHS. But it's old and I really need to get it up on KZbin somehow.

[@izotic_iconic5742]

This is so cool

[@billsanders9387]

Thanks. Our thermometers agree.

[@dirknc]

Cool video. Just one comment or something to think about. I don't do any rock climbing etc, but I did watch another video and they made a comment about the locking carabiners and they were suggesting to orient it so that you spun the locking mechanism down so it would have to fight gravity to go back up to be able to unlock. Just another layer of safety I suppose and simple to do.

[@EvenDarker]

But let's be honest we probably all be a better off if we didn't take advice from strangers on the internet. Both of us.

[@dirknc]

@@EvenDarker I agree, I wouldn't take advice from strangers on the internet at face value. People should definitely do their own research. It could point you in a direction that you may not have considered. At any rate, have a great rest of your evening. Look forward to your next video.

[@SOOKIE42069]

when there's already bolts in the wall by a descent, do you just trust the previous person's work or do you put your own into the wall? Can you show yourself putting the bolts in one day? I'm really curious how it's done.

[@EvenDarker]

Yeah those bolts are pretty old! I don't have the equipment to set bolts so if they don't exist I use boulders. Sometimes both. Setting bolt is not difficult though there's just a gun you take or a drill. Basalt rock is very hard and you set the bolts nice and deep so even if they're old and rickety they're not coming out.

[@DanielM-il4rz]

Just a quick question; I notice that you, as well as Jacob explore a lot of lava cast..I hope “cast” is the right word, caves,…Are these tunnels in the Utah, USA area?? I’m just guessing..I am very curious as to where the geography of most of these lava tunnels are located. Keep the great videos coming. I know they are a labor of love, yet still hard work with all that is involved in producing great videos. 👍 just fyi, I am watching from Biloxi, Mississippi, USA..it’s all flat Gulf of Mexico water/land here..in fact, I live about 15minutes (drive) from the Gulf of Mexico and about 45minutes (drive) from New Orleans, USA. (Low lying area, swamp creatures like alligators and snakes, etc…)😊

[@EvenDarker]

It's a quick question but it will not have a quick answer. We use the word cast but the proper term is actually mold. Tree mold. I just don't like the way the word mold sounds. Sometimes we call them tree ghosts. Anywhere there is volcanoes and lava Fields you could find tree casts. However, the vast amounts of log jams is unique to the lava fields in the Pacific northwest. Utah is a wonderful state for caving with a lot of big Limestone caves. I suspect you would have tree casts but they might not be very easy to locate unless you are a member of a caving group. Not every volcanic cone or lava field even has Caves at all. It depends on the depth and the nature of the lava. And even if you do find them sometimes they aren't very big or interesting.

[@terryflack447]

That was awesome in there.

[@GaylandChoate]

Are you not afraid of all the big loose rocks, and bolders everywhere in the tight crawls? I would be scared of a boulder coming down on me, or blicking the way out?

[@EvenDarker]

I wouldn't say concern, but we are mindful not to kick stuff, that's for sure. The boulder crawls do have an element of danger.

[@qlux7285]

Я не знаю, были ли здесь комментарии на русском языке, просто хочу сказать, что это уникальный контент, который я всегда жду с нетерпением. I just want you to know that I always look forward to new videos. It's awesome.

[@EvenDarker]

We get comments in many languages! We have lots of Russian caving friends as well.

[@qlux7285]

@@EvenDarker Truly speaking I've never seen as cool caving people as you, in Russia. Probably it's a closed community here and I'm just an ordinary person.

[@scootermitchel7045]

You fellas are something else. Have a ? How many light sources each do you carry?

[@EvenDarker]

More than you would believe if I told you. We could stay under for weeks and have light sources. We can also get out in the dark. And I've never had a single light fail. We also bring chemical lights and mechanical lights so we aren't reliant on batteries or any technology.

[@proudchristian77]

Nice green outfit ! U can see it in the dark , 🗻🌞

[@EvenDarker]

It's limetime! That suit is waterproof and a little easier to use when I'm in vertical gear. Shipped from Russia, before the fall.

[@horscategorie]

Great! If you make a video on the gear you use, the gear you used to use, the safety ratios of the rope, types of rope/webbing, etc... I will bet is it would be well received.

[@horscategorie]

Perhaps even add some common knots, when to use them, etc...

[@EvenDarker]

We list a lot of our gear in the video descriptions. I'm not sure on this video. We have more gear than you could ever imagine. But the main reason we don't is because we don't want to. We're not KZbinrs and so this is just our life and periodically we make videos of it. But I try not to do anything for "youtube" or by request. We're not negative about it we're just busy. I have a whole life and Jacob has a whole life. Jacob's at prom tonight! Our time is limited to occasionally caving and making videos of those adventures. But maybe if we get real bored! : )

[@horscategorie]

@@EvenDarker Prom? From tyke to prom... The gear question was an observation only. From figure 8's and gibbs ascenders in my day to what you are using, there have been monumental changes in tech. Very cool video and nice to see caution taken when appropriate.

[@anonpers0n]

looks like allot of fun

[@Wizardbeard91]

This is surreal

[@EvenDarker]

Some of this cave really is. In fact they don't have a good explanation for how this specific cave was formed.

[@xXCigarXx]

Every dollar does really add up.

[@EvenDarker]

Pinch the pennies and the dollars take care of themselves

[@orange-rose07]

Have you ever been on a long expedition camping inside a cave spending couple or more days and nights? I'm not asking about lava tubes as I realise they are too cold and relatively short caves.

[@billsanders9387]

Some of these lava tube caves exceed two miles in distance when fully explored. Just some very long days involved.

[@MrVeryfrost]

If you clear that passage @32:0, you will find another tunnel.

[@ignomoly]

Jacob seems like he is the oldest one... in the youngest body... and calvin seems like the youngest one... in the oldest body... lol

[@EvenDarker]

Never let an opportunity to be completely immature past you by. Jacob just hasn't learned that yet.

[@ignomoly]

@@EvenDarker i get the feeling he has had a very intense op tempo... and you seem to help unwind that... or wind it... depending on the perception...

[@InThisStyleGMinor]

CAVE IT!

[@afterthegoldrush7369]

Holy fuck

[@r.h258]

This might be a stupid question, but I wonder if you guys ever get scared in the caves... If so, would you mind telling what you think causes it? Thank you in advance!

[@EvenDarker]

Not usually. In fact it never occurred to me that any of this should be scary. I only learned about that from reading KZbin comments. We are here because it's fun and relaxing. The only time I remember being afraid was when I was with some new cavers and some boulders came down on one of them and I thought that he might die but Jacob and I were able to unbury him. I don't know whose fault that was but it's never happened to me or any experienced cavers. The only defense against that kind of panic is just to be patient. Most of the bad situations in life can be overcome if a person just slows their mind down a little bit. Don't be in such a hurry to leave a bad situation and you will get out just the same and without the panic.

[@KessunRetale]

Is this that cave witch entrance was "blown up" with dynamite?

[@EvenDarker]

Yes

[@Marshallo.o]

Wow

[@bethriegert4298]

Why does it go silent every now and then it is very scary because it has sound and then it instantly goes silent 😰

[@EvenDarker]

We edit out nonsense or if we are talking about locations or personal stuff probably.

[@cinamenlampreau2511]

Have you and Jacob ever found or saw anything you cant explai ? Just because you 2are under ground.

[@EvenDarker]

We're not really into those kinds of mysteries. We actively try not to trigger our fear mechanism so we stay calm and connected to reality. Because there's plenty of scary things already happening in an isolated environment like a cave. Once you start getting weirded out, it's a slippery slope!

[@cinamenlampreau2511]

@EvenDarker ya i watched where u explained some tight spots get your blood going watch u guys i tence up..love watching you guys keep up the vids..awsome

[@nickjordan9567]

hello guys 🤗

[@jonathancairy8300]

It seems like Jacob hangs out with his Uncle Calvin more than his dad. When I first started watching their content I thought Calvin was Jacob's father. Jacob's father seems a little immature compared to Calvin. I don't mean anything bad by it. It's just an observation.

[@EvenDarker]

Dont believe everything you see on TV.

[@jayblair6406]

You should blur out your license plate for safety reasons

[@durtydan420]

Why? You can't get any info off it unless you are law enforcement 😅

[@EvenDarker]

We Trust you.

[@lauriekennedy6440]

The cave is awesome!! One question…… why would you wear a jumpsuit type clothing in a cave when you don’t know if there is tight passages that you might need to pull something off to fit? They looked good but?? Glad you had a great time !’

[@EvenDarker]

It's funny usually people ask why we don't wear jumpsuits and they complain that we are wearing other clothes. It's much easier with vertical gear to wear a jumpsuit so the gear doesn't get caught in your shirt or pants. Plus this cave is almost freezing so it's an extra layer of waterproofing and warmth. If a passage is tight I actually don't like to wear a jumpsuit. I like to wear a bag of sweater which might seem counterintuitive to people who haven't crawled through a tight passage. But that's what works for me. I like to say whatever you see us wearing is exactly what is necessary for the cave we are in.