I want no surprises on the trip my first caving tour through undeveloped areas but the Awareness sheet is less than comforting.
Accidents can occur and the removal of an injured person is extremely difficult.
It could take many hours or even more than a day. But those are only the risks. I am signing on to other cruel and unusual punishments that are clearly unavoidable. I realize that in sections of the trip I will be crawling or laying in pools of water and wading an underground stream where the water is 52 degrees as is the air temperature year round. In September 1883 Blanche Hiestand and her younger brother, Orris, discovered Marengo Cave buried beneath the hills of southern Indiana near the Blue River.