Derek - a quick comment from here in the UK to say thanks & show appreciation for your posting these videos/the kindness of sharing them with the wider world. Certainly plenty of time invested in not only editing the videos, but also your skill to enter these environments in the first place. Very valuable content herein - not only to those of us planning on visiting certain of these areas, but I imagine your work will also have historical significance in years to come (record/archive of cave conditions etc). Thanks for sharing/giving up your free time to create your content in the first instance. Greatly appreciated. All best Kris (climber & occasional caver)
Thank you for the close up @5:39 , looks a wall structure . We study what is left of the antediluvian world in our groups , and named that type of exploration #meltology #meltrix #meltedbricks # brickology
Hi Derek - love your videos! Can you explain the plastic sheeting and the shoe changes? I take it not to track environment from one place to the next? Do you guys sleep at all on your trip or is it 30 hours of exploring? Keep up the good work! What's the best way to get started caving?
The Snowy River passage is extremely unique. The floor is covered in a delicate calcite crust (secondary cave formation). We use shoe covers or clean shoes with white soles along with plastic tarps (aka Magic Carpets) to minimize impact to the formation we're walking on. We've done a few trips of 30+ hours without sleeping, but on this trip we bivied for ~3 hours. Recent trips have been over 40 hours with a 6 hour bivy.
Nice video! Could you please tell me what camera you used, as well as the light source, and have they been in many caves yet?I've been contemplating buying a new camera that I can take on some of my caving trips.Thanks in advance, Greg
Most shots in this video are taken with a Sony a7iii with Sony 28mm f2 lens. This is a great low-light camera but pretty expensive for dragging through caves. Shots taken while moving were made with the GoPro Hero 5 Session, but I’ve recently replaced that with the GoPro Hero 7 Black. I use high CRI Zebralights for lighting.
Awesome cave! The audio however, the annoying electronic music upstages everything! Tone it down, let more background mix in and I would enjoy it more.
@@DerekBristol there's always some sounds because there's people in there, as well as water movement. Being a western cave may not be much though. Lechuguilla was pretty quiet when we were napping but even there the cavers kept it noisy. Keep up the good videos.
Derek - a quick comment from here in the UK to say thanks & show appreciation for your posting these videos/the kindness of sharing them with the wider world. Certainly plenty of time invested in not only editing the videos, but also your skill to enter these environments in the first place. Very valuable content herein - not only to those of us planning on visiting certain of these areas, but I imagine your work will also have historical significance in years to come (record/archive of cave conditions etc).
Thanks for sharing/giving up your free time to create your content in the first instance. Greatly appreciated.
All best
Kris (climber & occasional caver)
Kris Lennox You’re very welcome! Thanks for the kind words.
Thank you for the great video production and look at this cave. Tremendous!
That is awesome. I can only dream of exploring a cave like that. Keep more videos coming!
Would love to see these older ones re-produced in your current style of more calm music and narration. Thank you for the inspiration and entertainment
Excellent video tour of a world-class cave!
Thank you for the close up @5:39 , looks a wall structure . We study what is left of the antediluvian world in our groups , and named that type of exploration #meltology #meltrix #meltedbricks # brickology
This is awesome!
Amazing Cave.
No question. A very unique world-class cave.
Awesome!
Hi Derek - love your videos! Can you explain the plastic sheeting and the shoe changes? I take it not to track environment from one place to the next? Do you guys sleep at all on your trip or is it 30 hours of exploring? Keep up the good work! What's the best way to get started caving?
The Snowy River passage is extremely unique. The floor is covered in a delicate calcite crust (secondary cave formation). We use shoe covers or clean shoes with white soles along with plastic tarps (aka Magic Carpets) to minimize impact to the formation we're walking on. We've done a few trips of 30+ hours without sleeping, but on this trip we bivied for ~3 hours. Recent trips have been over 40 hours with a 6 hour bivy.
For information on how to get started caving, refer to this webpage: www.derekbristol.com/getting-started
My bucket list more than Lech
Awesome!!!!
7:20 Netflix's Dark vibes
Music level to loud
The Never-ending Jingle... When does the music stop? I just want to hear you all and the cave.
Nice video! Could you please tell me what camera you used, as well as the light source, and have they been in many caves yet?I've been contemplating buying a new camera that I can take on some of my caving trips.Thanks in advance, Greg
Most shots in this video are taken with a Sony a7iii with Sony 28mm f2 lens. This is a great low-light camera but pretty expensive for dragging through caves. Shots taken while moving were made with the GoPro Hero 5 Session, but I’ve recently replaced that with the GoPro Hero 7 Black. I use high CRI Zebralights for lighting.
Thank you for the information!
Put me on the list
Hazel Barton controls access but I’ll check with her.
Awesome cave! The audio however, the annoying electronic music upstages everything! Tone it down, let more background mix in and I would enjoy it more.
If you mute your computer you'll be able to hear the sounds of the cave... i.e. total silence.
@@DerekBristol there's always some sounds because there's people in there, as well as water movement. Being a western cave may not be much though. Lechuguilla was pretty quiet when we were napping but even there the cavers kept it noisy. Keep up the good videos.
I wish they buried this song in that cave
We try to leave no trace.
Don't see the fun of it, sorry
I guess you had to be there... it is the most fun you can have below-ground.
I enjoyed the video after turning off the annoying digital music.