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Well, yes, I'm behind the viewfinder. I'd gone in ahead of the group slightly, dragging my Nikon EM, flash, flash cable and a few lenses in a small Pelican box. I'd been caving a bit for a few years by that stage. That  was the cave we often used for new groups - not very challenging, apart from the crawl, and long enough to make an interesting round trip.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 19th, 2007 at 02:20:25 PM EST
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Impressive... The one camera that I dared to take into a cave was my cruddy point-and-click camera which was by that time more than 12 years old and only kept together because of sport tape. I destroyed my watch while caving.

Do we have more fellow (ex)cavers on ET?

by Nomad on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 07:22:04 AM EST
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Well, the EM was pretty cheap, I was using an off-brand manual lens that was also pretty cheap and an off-brand flash. I think the case was the most expensive part of the set-up!
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 07:51:56 AM EST
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clearly in the Ex-caver group (twice the circumference now...)
by PeWi on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 08:13:03 AM EST
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Tried it a couple of times in my youth, but the person I used to go with got a severe attack of the fear and couldn't handle going underground, so we stuck to climbing for the next few years.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 12:27:47 PM EST
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