I made two visits to McFails, way back in the late seventies/early eighties. It was a little over four miles long back then. Still the longest known cave in NY at the time. Thanks for the memories!
Please show more of this cave if you can! I never got to enter before my spinal injury, caving here use to be a larg part of my life once a long time ago.
I actually had about 50 minutes of footage that I edited down to 9. I thought it was a bit repetitive. Some probably think the 9 minutes I left in was already too repetitive.
Did you venture into any of the larger dry rooms? Or maybe show more of the vertical stuff! Those who click on this want to see as much as they can. Alsp, did you visit any other caves in the area?@@DerekBristol
Most cavers are wearing AV suits that are nylon with a water-resistant coating over top of a ~3mm wetsuit. These cave suits are not fully waterproof. Boots are typically either wellies or canyoneering boots. Wellies are a better choice if the water in the cave is less than shin-deep, which is not the case in McFails. We typically wear neoprene socks in deeper water caves such as this.
I found that the orange gloves get even less flexible with time. I've decided I'm OK with buying a few pairs of blue a year, but I also do a lot less vertical work than you. As a different topic, and it might just be me, but it seemed like the color temperature was different than your other videos. Obviously there was a guy in front of you who had his light on high.
Most of my videos are recorded on a Sony a7iii; however, this one is mostly GoPro. They have very different white balance, dynamic range, and color correction. The GoPro is significantly lower quality, but a necessary evil in very wet caves with a lot of climbing and/or crawling.
Love it. Beautiful area and cave.
Best videos on the whole Internet
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Being well into geezeritis this is the only way I can enjoy a cave trip now, thank you for the share.
Nice.
Been looking forward to a new video
I made two visits to McFails, way back in the late seventies/early eighties. It was a little over four miles long back then. Still the longest known cave in NY at the time. Thanks for the memories!
It's grown another 3 miles since then. Geology at work.
Nice, I wonder if Skull Cave has been re-mapped. That was #2 in the 90's but of course closed.
As far as I know Skull has never been mapped again. It still is very much closed. Shame as it is a very interesting cave.
I love the peaceful edits, I am looking forward to the next video!
took my first trip there this year, beautiful cave
Thanks Derek, keep on exploring.
Awesome video!
Nice work & Video 👍
Please show more of this cave if you can! I never got to enter before my spinal injury, caving here use to be a larg part of my life once a long time ago.
I actually had about 50 minutes of footage that I edited down to 9. I thought it was a bit repetitive. Some probably think the 9 minutes I left in was already too repetitive.
Did you venture into any of the larger dry rooms? Or maybe show more of the vertical stuff! Those who click on this want to see as much as they can.
Alsp, did you visit any other caves in the area?@@DerekBristol
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Here’s a good video showing some more of the cave.
I can't believe how dry this is compared to July and August of this year!
Yeah... I was told this was almost unprecedented low water conditions.
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Very nice beautiful cave no information
Cable ladders!?!
Could you explain what kind of suits you are wearing? I'm assuming they are waterproof. How do you keep your feet dry?
Most cavers are wearing AV suits that are nylon with a water-resistant coating over top of a ~3mm wetsuit. These cave suits are not fully waterproof. Boots are typically either wellies or canyoneering boots. Wellies are a better choice if the water in the cave is less than shin-deep, which is not the case in McFails. We typically wear neoprene socks in deeper water caves such as this.
@@DerekBristol Thank you for the explanation.
Anything that so weather dependent and such a long days slog always makes me nervous. I'd much rather be a long way in than a long way out.
Thank you for the vid in this interesting cave- no formations?
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I found that the orange gloves get even less flexible with time. I've decided I'm OK with buying a few pairs of blue a year, but I also do a lot less vertical work than you. As a different topic, and it might just be me, but it seemed like the color temperature was different than your other videos. Obviously there was a guy in front of you who had his light on high.
Most of my videos are recorded on a Sony a7iii; however, this one is mostly GoPro. They have very different white balance, dynamic range, and color correction. The GoPro is significantly lower quality, but a necessary evil in very wet caves with a lot of climbing and/or crawling.