|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Now in 993 land ...
|
Nutty Putty Cave
I read a little tonight about John Jones and his ordeal of getting stuck and passing away in a crevice of the Nutty Putty Cave. I could not really picture how you could get stuck upside down in a crevice without a fall!? This is how I imagined caving:
 But then I saw pictures of the Nutty Putty Cave ...   Here more: http://utahcaves.blogspot.com/2008/06/nutty-putty.html I am not shy of taking some risk in my spare time activities, neither am I claustrophobic, but you'd have to pay me money to go in there! What do you think? Any cavers on PPOT? Cheers, George Last edited by aigel; 11-29-2009 at 12:19 AM.. |
||
11-28-2009, 11:09 PM
|
|
|
3.4 Bigger is better
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 1,497
|
Guess I don't understand the allure of doing something so dangerous when you have young kids. If he was single and nobody depending on him it would be different. My brother was all hot to get a Harley until in a two week span two guys he knew were in accidents on bikes. One died and one had a very long recovery. Both had kids. He is not getting a bike until all are out of school.
It very sad and he made a choice to go into a very dangerous place...Wouldn't find me in a cave like that...
__________________
Michael 88 911 Diamond Blue CE Carrera 3.4 HC3.4 member 2020 Honda Passport |
||
|
11-28-2009, 11:59 PM
|
|
|
Gon fix it with me hammer
|
Sucks for the guys family, and i'm sure it's a terrible way to go. But the very idea of go through caves so narrow... just does not compute with me.
There's a reason why our species is not called "the earthworms". It's quite simple, we aren't worms, we are designed to live on top of the earth, not in it.
__________________
Stijn Vandamme EX911STARGA73EX92477EX94484EX944S8890MPHPINBALLMACHINEAKAEX987C2007 BIMDIESELBMW116D2019 |
||
|
11-29-2009, 01:54 AM
|
|
|
I see you
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: NJ
Posts: 29,889
|
Different strokes fellas. Mountain climbing, Ice climbing.scuba diving, BASE jumping ,car racing......all have risks.
__________________
Si non potes inimicum tuum vincere, habeas eum amicum and ride a big blue trike. "'Bipartisan' usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." |
||
|
11-29-2009, 05:51 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 5,941
|
It's all about risk/reward no way do I see that one as computing. It's like banging a fat married woman the math doesn't work.
__________________
"Todd" 98 Tahoe ,2007 Saturn Vue 86 930 black and stock, 80 930 blue tracdog 91 Spec Miata (yeah I race a chick car) "life"ll kill ya" Warren Zevon |
||
|
11-29-2009, 07:22 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Oswego, OR
Posts: 6,056
|
Not all caves are that extreme. I went on a 4th grade field trip this Fall with my Daughter's class at Mt. St. Helens. We all toured "Ape Cave." Straight forward lava tube. It was tame.
Larry |
||
|
11-29-2009, 08:42 AM
|
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Ogden, Utah
Posts: 942
|
I've been to Nutty Putty. I wouldn't go back. And I didn't try to go into anything you couldn't push a fridgerator box through.
If your trying to earthworm through small spaces like that... Someone should be like chasing your ass.
__________________
Wrap me up in my old flying jacket, And give me a joystick to hold, to hold, And I'll soar once again o'er the trenches And thus shall my exploits be told. |
||
|
11-29-2009, 08:52 AM
|
|
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,943
|
Feel sorry for the guy but to close it off forever also do not agree with. Get his body out of there and leave it open.
Not a big caver but like said above, if you cannot get a fridge through it, I aint going.
__________________
2013 Jag XF, 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins (the workhorse), 1992 Jaguar XJ S-3 V-12 VDP (one of only 100 examples made), 1969 Jaguar XJ (been in the family since new), 1985 911 Targa backdated to 1973 RS specs with a 3.6 shoehorned in the back, 1959 Austin Healey Sprite (former SCCA H-Prod), 1995 BMW R1100RSL, 1971 & '72 BMW R75/5 "Toaster," Ural Tourist w/sidecar, 1949 Aeronca Sedan / QB |
||
|
11-29-2009, 08:57 AM
|
|
|
Gon fix it with me hammer
|
i believe they left him there because they deemed it to risky to get him out...
I suppose they can't start blasting just to get him out, that would defeat the purpose.
__________________
Stijn Vandamme EX911STARGA73EX92477EX94484EX944S8890MPHPINBALLMACHINEAKAEX987C2007 BIMDIESELBMW116D2019 |
||
|
11-29-2009, 09:04 AM
|
|
|
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Birmingham, Al
Posts: 945
|
One of the best reasons I know for carrying around 20 or 30 extra pounds.... you ain't bloody likely to get stuck in no caves 'cause you ain't got the energy it takes to be a spelunker!
Have a few friends that have been or are coal miners. At one point or another when I was younger they've tried to get me to work with them. No way, thank you. Don't care what the money is like. I'll keep my thrills above the earth, thank you.
__________________
"Living and Dying in 3/4 Time" |
||
|
11-29-2009, 09:54 AM
|
|
|
Now in 993 land ...
|
The opening of the cave sure lends itself to a couple of concrete trucks backing up and filling it.
  I don't think shutting it down is a good idea. Sounds like this cave kept the search and rescue team pretty busy. OTOH there were thousands of visitors every year. A compromise would have been to seal the dangerous areas, including the one with the body, but keep the easier stuff open and continue to control access. Now the adventure seekers will go elsewhere and keep some other S&R team busy ... George |
||
|
11-29-2009, 01:03 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: CA
Posts: 684
|
Quote:
|
||
|
11-29-2009, 01:39 PM
|
|
|
|
Virginia Rocks!
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Just outside the beltway
Posts: 8,497
|
Not that it's someplace high on my list of places to visit, but I'm surprised that they are sealing it off.
__________________
Rosewood 1983 911 SC Targa | Black 1990 944 S2 | White 1980 BMW R65 | Past: Crystal 1986 944 na Guards Red is for the Unoriginal
|
||
|
11-29-2009, 01:50 PM
|
|
|
Wandered off somewhere...
|
I went into a cave in Northern Iowa many decades ago with three other guys. First stupid thing we did is that we didn't tell anyone where we were going. The entrance looked a bit like the one above...just some rocks and a hole in the middle of a field. To get down into the cave itself we had to literally wriggle ourselves one by one down an angled tunnel about 30' long. We did have a rope to hang on to and to pull ourselves back up. The cave was pretty cool but when I think of what we did, and didn't do, I almost get a panic attack. Totally stupid and I would NEVER do such a thing again.
__________________
Mark... Porsche Boxster S 2012 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon..Crush Orange |
||
|
11-29-2009, 01:50 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
There are countless dangerous places out west where you can get yourself killed and never rescued or even found. They shouldn't close this place.
__________________
2022 BMW 530i 2021 MB GLA250 2020 BMW R1250GS |
||
|
11-29-2009, 01:58 PM
|
|
|
The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
Posts: 23,885
|
Quote:
__________________
"I want my two dollars" "Goodbye and thanks for the fish" "Proud Member and Supporter of the YWL" "Brandon Won" |
||
|
11-29-2009, 02:02 PM
|
|
|
Evil Genius
|
I've done much much worse.............now try putting caving underwater along with scuba gear on and you're way back in the cave.... Now THAT is a rush!
Interestest some of the comments here, but better to die doing something you love than pusssy out and sit in a rocking chair in the living room.........where you could still rock backwards to far and bonk your head and die........all while knitting a sweater. pansies. lifes short, live it to the extreme.
__________________
Life is a big ocean to swim in. Wag more, bark less. 
|
||
|
11-29-2009, 09:20 PM
|
|
|
3.4 Bigger is better
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 1,497
|
Don't have an issue with doing dangerous and absurdly dangerous like this was. I get a rush out of going to the track and pushing it hard and my odds of getting hurt there are about as low(very low possibility) as his were high (very high possibility) of not coming home. I have four kids and 3 grand kids that seem to really like me being around yet. My comfort level for danger is not that high due to really wanting to experience everything I can with all of them. His kids will never get to experience those things with their dad due to bad decisions. High price for them. Telling them Dad died doing what he liked doesn't seem to cut it somehow.
We had a discussion a few years ago about passing on and the oldest daughter read me the riot act about needing me around for some time to come How many more deaths before they close the cave if they would have not done it now. Seems the people from the area are not that sad to see it happen with all the trouble they have had keeping it safe.
__________________
Michael 88 911 Diamond Blue CE Carrera 3.4 HC3.4 member 2020 Honda Passport |
||
|
11-29-2009, 10:25 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryland
Posts: 31,436
|
Quote:
 I have and do interesting things, but it will never include a journey below the surface of the earth.
__________________
1996 FJ80. |
||
|
11-30-2009, 03:10 AM
|
|
|
Did you get the memo?
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wichita, KS
Posts: 32,346
|
Quote:
|
||
|
11-30-2009, 05:33 AM
|
|
BimForce the Third, Esquire
Little Red
Only Porsche
Only bike
1982 Porsche 911SC 3.0L warmed over
