I spent 62 HOURS exploring a 400 foot water fall inside a cave! Topless Dome Part 2 of 3
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Topless Dome is a 396 foot tall dome with a water fall coming down the center of it. This is the 2nd video about the project where Rachel Saker finished leading to the top of it and we rappelled next to the water fall. We were in the cave for 3 days, 2 nights for a total of 62 hours to complete this project.
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Nice knowing the cavers have same humour no matter where your from in the world. Awesome trip, glad your trying out this sport.
Rachels sense of humor fits right in on this channel! 🤣
Awesome video!
@@feelinghealingfrequences7179 congratulations on sounding like a dumbass in public.
This place is amazing, you guys are fearless and the 74 year old man is inspirational! What a crazy adventure
Every single person in this video is such a badass it is legitimately hard to believe.
Rachel is a Beast!! That last climb down must have been grim!
Let's hope guys don't go shop for their own big girl attire.
Rachel is a badass. 💪💪
Awh, thank you. 🥹
Yeah I'll definitely 2nd that comment you're a badass girl, nice finish to that lead!
I concur. It's cool to see people have such drive and clear passion for their pursuits.
@@rachelhasbruises Big fan. You're a cutie.👍
i was going to say exactly that. she makes it look so easy. It has been said that Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.... Rachel is the Ginger Rogers of caving.
This is how my granddad went to school every day, uphill both ways
Barefooted in the snow lol
@@averageamericanadventures1384 *mud
@@rachelhasbruises in the ww2 trenches*
Best comment I've heard
There is a funny video on here about that same quote!
This cave is so beautiful want to go back. Only got to the King's shower. Your guys' pace and uplifting humor is nice. Great video this is how you record a cave! Thank you all for showing us this wonder.
When you want to go climbing but also spend a lot of time cleaning equipment afterwards then this is for you I guess
You forgot the part where we get to hang out in places no human has ever seen nor touched, but yes that's basically accurate. (:
@@rachelhasbruises First descentascentdescentascentdescentascentit'sunclearhowmanytimes.
@@rachelhasbruises It's like the glory of mountaineering on a new peak, but underground and swapping cold/snow for wet/mud!
@@Govanification but hey-- no frostbite! ;)
@@rachelhasbruises People we're on the moon before they were there. You guys are cool. :)
Loving this... You can tell that Ryan is inherently terrified haha
Ryan is both terrified and bored at the same time. I was half thinking the movie comment was a joke and then... movies. NICE.
@@matthewgough9533 *four* movies all told, iirc 😂
Props to Ryan for jumping full into caving though.
Great job on this series!
Thanks
While it is very exciting it is definitely NOT for ME but I was captivated with curiosity the moment you guys went through the gate. My bravest moment cave exploring was a guided tour of the Jenolan Caves in New South Wales Australia and they turned out the lights. BLACK as BLACK! And apparently there are many areas not yet explored!
Oooh mama! Been looking forward to this episode!
Today was pretty uneventful. I woke up like any normal day and went to work. The drive home was just as pleasant as the drive in. When I got home I patted the dog, watched some TV, and ate a sandwich for dinner.
At what point of the day did you have the joint ?
@@deiluxx wake and bake
Cleaning is always the most fun part of the caving trip.What wonderful dedication exploring. May the blessings be. From Tasmania.
This is awesome! I put off watching it because I'm not super into caving, but then got super excited to see you flying in to my city in the first few minutes. This seems like a super epic project and now I'm very interested in learning more about the history there.
Amazing! Thank you for documenting this whole other world!
12:00 Now we know why Rachel went exploring. 🤣 Was not expecting that!
This cave series has been epic, so cool
Damn Rachel is tough as nails. Working under those conditions for that long.
"it's not Gunna be a rescue it's Gunna be a recovery"
Lmfao
Keen to see some mud tests on the grigri regarding reliability of moving parts
Grigri eats mud like a champ. I have used it with absolutely coated rope and it still holds, it’s just difficult to let slack out occasionally
@@ethanreuter2888 says the guy who has definitely killed Grigris with mud..... 😂
so cool to see the old equipment used in the past
Looks like fun. You should keep up with Rachel and the project.
Great video, I could watch this all day!
Glad I caught wind of this video. Nice work.
Fantastic work! So amped right now! 🤘🤘🤘
Exploration videos are the best content ever.
Sooo awesome, but that phallic formation was very disturbing lol...Rachel you rock girl...
Rachel is an AMAZING CAVER!
Rachel is the work horse of this operation.
You know your partner is good when she even goes to the darkness with you! your guys are awesome.
Nice shooting. Congratulations to all for the efforts
Best in awhile looks fun
Wow amazing episode!
I hope it gets all the views and likes it deserve
I understand people have claustrophobia, and other things, and/or are just afraid of caves and all that.. but it's hard for me to fathom being terrified or unwilling to do something like this. My facinstion for caves and just underground tunnel systems far out weigh any fear I would have. Really want to get out there and so something like this one day.
You guys went into that deep cave
system and lived to tell the story
about your expedition, that is a blessing.
Thank you all.
The muddy wet ropes hurt me deep down in my soul 😣. Can’t imagine the lifespan on those
Don't cave 😂
I only had 48 hours up inside vertical cave. Digging to open a surface exit. Cartography of cave was laid over a USGS topo.
To locate a suspect sinkhole. Had catnaps on a ledge while tied to a natural anchor. Left when my water jugs was done.
Left the dig location clean apart from a pink PVC tube register station for visitor comment. Did you ever see it ?
This is nuts.
Well done.
I love this. It would be so fun, I have done several miles worth in a cave in Utah, but we were just winging it, so we went until we got the the drops, and couldn't go further than that. I would love to make a decent someday
Looks like their inside of what used to be a living organism. Serious work. Very cool and wild.
You guys are absolutely incredible !!! Extreme indeed
Totally surreal looking experience.
I’m stunned and amazed. Well done!
Jaw dropped right from the start!!
Wow You’ve just completed something I will never do but that is incredible to watch
The natural comedic timing has me cracking up
I used to live in Alabama when I was born, ive carved caves and repelled off Mt.Chehah but never repelled in a cave. Caved in Bangor cave and others though.
That's a cool looking cave, but not cool enough to make me want to go caving (: Glad you guys are sharing it via video.
11:00 2 burritos ! OMG 🌯 You maniac! I hear they go straight through you.. Hope you had a side passage for a good Bathroom setup ! Haha with the lady Present I just wouldn't eat until later 😂😂😂
Epic video! What an adventure!! I've never looked into big caves but this is awesome!!
Go meet up with some SPRAT folks who are Cavers-- most SPRAT stuff is based on caving ropework and techniques.
@@rachelhasbruises I know. Sprat and irata both. Being from the flatlands of the Netherlands I’ve been in some small caves but nothing with days of climbing and 400ft drops. Seems like a blast👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@@TheRopeAccessChannel ohh, but if you're already in Europe then you're not far from hugely vertical caves. The US doesn't have nearly the vertical extent of eastern Europe and Asia. (:
@@rachelhasbruises I asked a caver friend about this video and if he had ever done caves like this and he said the same. Plenty big ones in Europe! I’m going to look into it. Definitely something I want to experience 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Wow! I had no idea there were any alternative passages to the top of the Topless Dome! I also had no idea anyone had ever been to the top! I thought the only way to get to the top was to climb!
I dig the high wheel in the background of the setup room.
Hahaha, that's the spinning wheel of my Spinster Palace! 😂 Found it at an antiques / flea market in Alabama for like $30. I don't know if its actually functional or just a decorative piece but yeah-- I thought it looked cool. ((Sorry to anyone who actually spins / knits, I'm simply a poser))
@@rachelhasbruises high wheels are very beautiful, regardless of their functionality...but I spun for years on a louet treadle wheel, and only used a high wheel once (they were also called "walking wheels" back in their colonial heyday), so perhaps my admiration is a "grass is greener" kind of thing.
@@samuelfindley3490 oh that's awesome you spun! Yarn-based hobbies are on the "one of these years" to-do list :3 seems so relaxing and meditative
Seems even cooler when someone is spinning their own yarn!
I want to see alot more of this stuff
Epic & beautiful. 🙏🦾
Mushroom Forest Dome....wasn't that a level in Super Mario World?
Breathing lots of silica dust running that hammer drill in there.
10:45...finished that section, wash clothing..ironing..cook some meals...bring kids to school and you watch tv
Badass!!! Also...did y’all watch The Descent before or after?! 😸
Does a map of the cave exist? I'm really curious to see these weird pits and their development inside the karst system.
It's mapped but I'm not sure if the modern-ish (1990s) map is hosted publicly online.
Here's my "I don't know much about geology" explaination about the speleogenesis:
The main passage of the cave is a phreatic trunk with an active stream overprinting-- the trunk is at the elevation of the valley floor. If you pull up a geological map of the Mississippian limestone of northern Alabama, its in the St. Louis Limestone.
Then there's a few major rotunda rooms along that trunk (all in-line with each other) that go through the Monteagle Limestone (~200-ft thick layer). Unsure why we haven't found cave above those rooms even though there's 200-ft thick of sexy sexy Bangor limestone above them that could form beautiful cave. 🤷
Topless Dome is almost certainly unrelated to the development of the main borehole trunk passage-- it simply formed like any of the other big pits in Alabama do, but happened to intersect the (much older) borehole trunk.
The top of Topless terminates at the Pennington/Bangor contact. It punched straight through both the Bangor and the Monteagle without interruption because that hillside happens to lack the sandstone-rich Hartselle layer between the two thicc layers.
The floor of it hits the Monteagle/St. Louis contact and moseys just a little before joining the rest of the stream that wanders through the main cave.
@@rachelhasbruises That is dramatically more intelligible than the "Geologic Discussion" portion of the NSS regional books I read last time I was caving in that area. I'm pretty sure they proof those for accuracy and not the likelihood to induce sleep.
Caves seem like interesting venues for small music concerts.
Dope series Ryan !
Woa what are those backpacks? Have you done a gear review? I didn't see it in the gear buying guides. If they can survive a muddy cave I bet they can survive normal use.
The red one is a 45L Rodcle, which is my favorite even though it's too huge for most caves...
Caving packs would be pretty rough to wear in non-caving environments, though. They tend to be little to no padding and minimal adjustments (no shoulder risers, etc.)
The new Petzl Transport series (circa 2024) have more aboveground features but are still made of TPU material, which is extremely durable and can be weld repaired. I think Jenks sells those packs since he carries Petzl.
9:28 you forgot my 2 Big Macs.. Gonna have to go back
More cave! wow! . . . We want more of this! 🤣
10:56 I'd kill for a snicker and burito bro. I've been in my room, Shanghai, for straight 22 days...
Hello I like this video it is good and interesting for me to watch.
The world needs more badass chicks like Rachel.
thats really badass
Awesome cave video I would like to go caving with you I live in Knoxville Tennessee
Oh man, this would be so fun!
I don't know anything about climbing so maybe this is a dumb question. You seem to be going up where the wall is almost flat, how the f are you doing that? Not only climbing it but putting bolts in at the same time. How are you climbing that with basically zero holds? I guess the heavier guy holds Rachel in place or something but how is the guy then climbing up after her? I'm clueless haha.
I’m surprised you guys didn’t bring more glow in the dark stuff like I imagined people who explore caves do
Have had one of those armytek wizard pro headlamps fail on me
Amazing bravery...
I've been inside the dome but definitely not to the top. Looks awesome
Can we get a mini-series? The adventures of cave girl and gear guy!
16:00 The fact that they put it in a plastic bag, indicates that they wanted someone to read it eventually. In which case they really should have made some kind of tablet.
Great adventure thanks for sharing. Rachel, you are a gorgeous badass and I'd follow you anywhere except into one of these caves. Please be safe, all of you.
Rachel is a certified badass
Great video. There is a cave in Greece with a 408 meter (1338 feet) one rope drop.
On the mainland I assume? That's a massive shaft, even France doesn't have such deep vertical pits! Slovenia or Croatia had a cave with a more than 600 meter vertical shaft though, I can only imagine what abseiling that must be like!
You don,t know srt technics?Great cave.Cheers!
Those wet rope tests where well worth it!
Make sure that you all have peppermint oil and eucalyptus oil to add in water a few drops if You all can't breathe... And drink
Hello what would happen if I fell from the top to the bottom of the 400feet dop to the bottom please.
Cool video.
Ryan, are you coming to the NSS convention in Rapid City in June?
this shit is bananas.
...which is why some of us love it.
Have you contacted Derek Bristol about possible collaboration/expedition? Looks like you're getting sucked into caving thing as I did 40 years ago. There seems to be a lot of overlap between what you 2 are doing, and I love to see technology and technique being advanced. Mo' perspectives = mo' better!
Yeah, I was surprised about seeing his name come by as well!
Quality content
Dude Zebralight makes the best flashlights in the world.
My fellow men of culture i just discovered this hidden gem at 12:01
That waterfall would not let me sleep.. I'd be Peeing all night 😂
this is awsome
Awesome
Wow, this is incredibly cool to watch. One question: cave explorers bring outside microbes and bacteria with them into incredibly rare, isolated and sensitive (micro)biomes by simply being there. Is this something you consider before going in, and do you do anything to mitigate potential contamination?
Not in these caves. They've been open to the environment since forever by both water and physically passable spaces.
The microbe concern is more for places like Lechaguilla, which didn't have an opening to the surface until cavers dug into it, and wasn't formed by surface water draining into it (it's hypogene).
Zebra lights rock! Love my Zebra!
No thank you. I will live vicariously through you, but it is interesting cave exploration.