Thanks for another great adventure ! What a beautiful place. Hope no one has ever accidently fallen into any of those "holes" because they're just "out there" !
Thanks so much! Many more to come, I’ve actually got some of the best footage I’ve ever shot on the back burner… waiting till caving is treading again my numbers have been crappy
I went repelling in Blue Springs when I was in my twenties. The pit was about 3 miles into the cave. Its on private property near Monte Eagle. Native Tennessean here
Coalmont in Grundy Co says hello. This looks similar to one in Bersheba Springs and I know I’ve seen this one but can’t recall it exactly. There’s also a large creekin the gulf that ends in a large whirlpool and surfaces again a little ways before Collins river.
Still some of the best content on the web, and just getting better! Have you considered bringing a sine wave generator down into the caves and finding the resonant frequency of different chambers just as the ancients did in the Chauvet cave of France?
The intersection between Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia (colloquially known as the TAG region) has one of highest cave densities in the world with exceptions being some parts of Vietnam. The caving society headquarters for the US (The National Speleological Society) is based out of Huntsville, Alabama. Caves are a very very very big part of TAG’s geology/geography. The deepest unobstructed pit cave in the US, the Fantastic Pit (586 feet), is located in northern Georgia.
Have you been to the Airplane Cave in tifftonia outside of Chattanooga Tn Has a large pit also On prvt property on cash canyon rd only cave that had me worried.
Salutations Mineral Dude, Simply put.... an Incredible documentary, what an amazing film in such a beautiful place! I do have a question and I hope it doesn't put you off like it might some others; is there any chance that this pit might be an ancient tree hollow, driving down into the taproot, the passage walls water worn wood that has petrified after a certain amount of desiccation, which extend out from the main pit, the array of tunnels places where roots once were. It really could explain a lot, formations made by water erosion versus only growing centimeters in eons....but, I am asking your opinion, especially in this circumstance....8 feel we take too much reliance on science by the book, written by folks that suppose much, perhaps more than the layman. Great explore, and the climbs looked like quite the workout! Thank You for sharing such an exceptional location! Sending Cheers and Blessings to You and All Yours! CIAO!
Thank you!! I’m not against that theory although I don’t think I agree with it completely, unless the roots of ancient trees did something different than they do today I don’t think this particular one is a tree (side passages are half way up the pit… I guess you could argue that they are the limbs) however in California a lot of the caves out there are made from lava burning up ancient trees and leaving a hollow spade where they once where
@@Mineral_dude Saludos and Thank You for the reply! Shared your video! I agree with your surmisations! Consider that those roots served multiple purposes, besides providing anchorages and leverages to balance the tremendous weight above, the most important purpose was probably conveying water to the massive bulk of the trunk, branches and foilage above ground! I think it is those burned roots, the oils and moisture inherent causing a slow burn, the eventual cooled reduction of said fluids and rendered root pulp resulting in volcanic magma and lava, but in a purer ashless burn; volcanic glass or obsidian. Great Channel! Cheers!
Rope weighs a lot when you’re carrying it up a moutain… also most of our gear only runs 8mm-13mm (I mostly use 10 but I’ve been digging 9 recently because of saving weight)
Thank you for this!! Request, could you please stop and look at the formations longer? I'm grateful to you for pointing them out bc I wouldn't even know what they're called. But when you're watching a video, what probably seems to you like a long time of looking at something while filming it, goes by for me so fast as a viewer that I don't really see it. I love caves, but am too claustrophic to go into them even though they're all over middle TN. So thank you for letting us live vicariously!! That was truly incredible!
I knew you was somewhere around here! My buddy told me you said that 170 footer (different cave) is prettymuch your backyard, awesome place to live and hopefully by the end of this year I’ll kinda be your neighbor!
Where in TN. I live in TN & used to want to go cave exploring until I saw the movies Descent & Descent 2 ….. haha - changed my mind after watching those but still would like to know where in TN. Also, in Utah a few years ago, a guy got stuck crawling too far in a cave and they couldn’t get him out. They had to leave his body and then closed up the cave. There’s a movie, “The Last Descent” about this.
Cumberland Caverns offers some decent wild cave tours. I've been on them. Well beyond the easy bright-lit tourist trails. Would be a good taste of wild caving.
No kidding!! Got any recommendations I opened my personal battery fry box the other day and it was half full of water 😬 so I’m definitely in the market for a better dry box haha
@@Mineral_dude I ll post back tomorrow. I get hundreds a month with the chips & parts I get to build our controller boards. I ll throw you sum names. Rei has the waterproof pencils. Harbor freight has a few waterproof boxes with pressure valves that work well, I ve used them at water parks with great success, i line the box with a micro fiber cloth then put my phone n wallet keys, take them on the water park rides never leaked enough to wet my smokes when I use to smoke.
I love your videos man. I reckon they would be even better if you try to stick to one rule for the time being: When you're narrating/commentating, try to move your head slooowly.
This appears to be a large mining pit! At some point in our past, miners were out there scooping out whatever minerals or gemstones they found in that hole. Although it wasn't that big of a "sinkhole" before they scooped it out. This is manmade don't be fooled. The digging and scooping out of soil/minerals/metals/copper/gemstones has happened all over the landscapes on every continent. it's not that big of a mystery if you really think it through.
@@Mineral_dude Miners dig into hillsides and mountains. They dig all types of openings and caves in the mountains. They're looking for minerals and gemstones. To me, this particular spot looks like it may have been mined at some point.
Lol brother, caving and shorts don't mix well hahahaha. Laser pointer+ small packable disco ball and string,,,,,,,lol hahahahaha It would probably be pretty awesome looking,, laser that strobes. cool pits. Thanks for sharing.
@@Mineral_dude It would be pretty cool good video material Too bad you all don't live closer to here I know of and been in hundreds of caves here In Missouri. I have been giving you all shout outs on my channel Underground adventures is subbed to me cool fellow. We tubers stick together.
Guys why you don't try to go to Ecuador all together and fallow Food steps or one of the astronautas.. niel Armstrong tayos cave ... have good vacation and good videos ... and lot of battery 🔋 and food... hey I know all money all you guys get sponsors.. and all the support helping you guys... Not lot videos on details of the caves like you du... one on time life , . Is just and ideas 💡 🤔 I enjoy all your videos. ...
Thanks for the support! Overseas caving is in my 5 year plan, I run a buisness outside of this so I’m a busy dude most of the time, I really wanna go to salvania or Thailand first honestly
I couldn’t imagine being a cave man or something and walking up onto something like this, you’d think it’s bottomless!! It’s not like you could stand right up next to it cause of the pitch so you’d just think it went to the center of the earth, I bet they worshipped shit like this back in the day
@@Mineral_dude i watched matt carrikers recent video on the cave he is digging out. at the end of the video, he uses a drone to do a top-down view of the cave, and the hole entrance was pure black.
Oh and I was hoping that you would not tie off to that tree next to the pit thanks for having sense enough not to do that Trees next to pit are not secure...... I know that and don't even repell hahahha.
We work very different schedules so it’s hard to sync up sometimes, trust me she’s got a bunch of videos on the back burner ready to edit so you’ll be seeing more of her
66 year old here...living vicariously through you guys!
Same here. I wish I was of an age and fitness to do what these guys are doing. That looks awesome!
Another amazing adventure! You guys look like you have so much fun! Thank you for taking us with you.
Of course! Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for another great adventure ! What a beautiful place. Hope no one has ever accidently fallen into any of those "holes" because they're just "out there" !
Alot to look at down there, really cool! 😮 Thanks for sharing another awesome adventure.😎👍
Yeah I’ll have to make a short or something of the other pit we didn’t go down
This is so so cool! Thanks for sharing this.
Amazing. So amazing. Love seeing the world through your lens
Glad I could help out with some brain/eye candy :)
Beautiful pit
Really enjoying your videos thank you for your content
Thanks so much! Many more to come, I’ve actually got some of the best footage I’ve ever shot on the back burner… waiting till caving is treading again my numbers have been crappy
I went repelling in Blue Springs when I was in my twenties. The pit was about 3 miles into the cave. Its on private property near Monte Eagle. Native Tennessean here
Coalmont in Grundy Co says hello. This looks similar to one in Bersheba Springs and I know I’ve seen this one but can’t recall it exactly.
There’s also a large creekin the gulf that ends in a large whirlpool and surfaces again a little ways before Collins river.
9:44 Whew, this all looks super fun, but that makes me nervous, lol .
Still some of the best content on the web, and just getting better! Have you considered bringing a sine wave generator down into the caves and finding the resonant frequency of different chambers just as the ancients did in the Chauvet cave of France?
I have not…. But now I am!! 😂
Beautiful 프랑스!
Heck yeah, get sum. Good video!
I gotta take you here man!
@@Mineral_dude taken I will expect
The "flying" guy has a Superman shirt on, lol .
Check out Indian Grave Point cave in Dekalb County and Snail Shell in Rutherford..👍
Is that right before you cross the TN river up past the train tracks? I went in this a while ago, it’s insane! Went in at 10am and came out at 11:45pm
Matt Carriker wishes he had that cave system on his ranch.
but still to own the caves matt owns would still be fucking sick, id be throwing cave parties for sure
Awesome footage! i felt like I was ascending with you on that final ascent up and out! I live in Tennessee. Is this pit in Marion County?
The more caving videos I see the more I see y'all know one another x3 I could swear I saw you in a AAT video of Donnehue, no?
😮 Who would have known that this is in my home state
The intersection between Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia (colloquially known as the TAG region) has one of highest cave densities in the world with exceptions being some parts of Vietnam. The caving society headquarters for the US (The National Speleological Society) is based out of Huntsville, Alabama. Caves are a very very very big part of TAG’s geology/geography. The deepest unobstructed pit cave in the US, the Fantastic Pit (586 feet), is located in northern Georgia.
@@namuhtsuj4025 it’s actually located in Alaska. Fantastic is the second deepest unobstructed pit
I'm a proud Tennessean.
East Tn.
I appreciate the mention for the shoes. I know they were slippery AF 🤣
I appreciate the shoes!! Haha way better than crocs would have been
Nice but not near as deep as the pits in Ellisons cave in Georgia
Have you been to the Airplane Cave in tifftonia outside of Chattanooga Tn
Has a large pit also
On prvt property on cash canyon rd only cave that had me worried.
been there and been in the pit. I'm 63 now so it was a while ago.
What's the name of the pit?
Salutations Mineral Dude,
Simply put.... an Incredible documentary, what an amazing film in such a beautiful place! I do have a question and I hope it doesn't put you off like it might some others; is there any chance that this pit might be an ancient tree hollow, driving down into the taproot, the passage walls water worn wood that has petrified after a certain amount of desiccation, which extend out from the main pit, the array of tunnels places where roots once were. It really could explain a lot, formations made by water erosion versus only growing centimeters in eons....but, I am asking your opinion, especially in this circumstance....8 feel we take too much reliance on science by the book, written by folks that suppose much, perhaps more than the layman. Great explore, and the climbs looked like quite the workout! Thank You for sharing such an exceptional location!
Sending Cheers and Blessings to You and All Yours! CIAO!
Thank you!! I’m not against that theory although I don’t think I agree with it completely, unless the roots of ancient trees did something different than they do today I don’t think this particular one is a tree (side passages are half way up the pit… I guess you could argue that they are the limbs) however in California a lot of the caves out there are made from lava burning up ancient trees and leaving a hollow spade where they once where
@@Mineral_dude Saludos and Thank You for the reply! Shared your video! I agree with your surmisations! Consider that those roots served multiple purposes, besides providing anchorages and leverages to balance the tremendous weight above, the most important purpose was probably conveying water to the massive bulk of the trunk, branches and foilage above ground!
I think it is those burned roots, the oils and moisture inherent causing a slow burn, the eventual cooled reduction of said fluids and rendered root pulp resulting in volcanic magma and lava, but in a purer ashless burn; volcanic glass or obsidian. Great Channel! Cheers!
@@Mineral_dude those side passages, could branch off from the main taproot which drives yet deeper down!
Where is this?
I always feel uncomfortable when seeing the small rope size. I know they are strong. Is it better to have that rope size rather than a larger rope?
Rope weighs a lot when you’re carrying it up a moutain… also most of our gear only runs 8mm-13mm (I mostly use 10 but I’ve been digging 9 recently because of saving weight)
Looked like some of the rocks had been cut. Was this at one time a planed site for a silo or something.
@@stinkymccheese8010 lmfao 🤣
Thank you for this!! Request, could you please stop and look at the formations longer?
I'm grateful to you for pointing them out bc I wouldn't even know what they're called. But when you're watching a video, what probably seems to you like a long time of looking at something while filming it, goes by for me so fast as a viewer that I don't really see it.
I love caves, but am too claustrophic to go into them even though they're all over middle TN. So thank you for letting us live vicariously!! That was truly incredible!
Shorts, tennies? BADDLY underdressed!!😮
Anyone hear the sound? It’s deep!
What county in TN is this in?
I’m guessing Grundy, but apparently they’re in most counties lol
My backyard!! I live just above there.
What county is it in
I knew you was somewhere around here! My buddy told me you said that 170 footer (different cave) is prettymuch your backyard, awesome place to live and hopefully by the end of this year I’ll kinda be your neighbor!
Location?
Looks like Glory and Jeep side I think 🤔
Jeep Side is correct! I'm not sure what the other one to the left of it is called so it very well could be glory
WHAT - WOW!!!
Where in TN. I live in TN & used to want to go cave exploring until I saw the movies Descent & Descent 2 ….. haha - changed my mind after watching those but still would like to know where in TN. Also, in Utah a few years ago, a guy got stuck crawling too far in a cave and they couldn’t get him out. They had to leave his body and then closed up the cave. There’s a movie, “The Last Descent” about this.
Cumberland Caverns offers some decent wild cave tours. I've been on them.
Well beyond the easy bright-lit tourist trails. Would be a good taste of wild caving.
Sick video, cagle?
Hey nowww ya'll. ! Into the vooooid😅
Hell yeah!
Hey awesome video dude. Next time I'm inviting myself to come with.
New channel??? youre always invited haha
Need to start carrying decadent packs with you to preserve the paper logs and a waterproof pencil 😊
No kidding!! Got any recommendations I opened my personal battery fry box the other day and it was half full of water 😬 so I’m definitely in the market for a better dry box haha
@@Mineral_dude I ll post back tomorrow. I get hundreds a month with the chips & parts I get to build our controller boards. I ll throw you sum names. Rei has the waterproof pencils. Harbor freight has a few waterproof boxes with pressure valves that work well, I ve used them at water parks with great success, i line the box with a micro fiber cloth then put my phone n wallet keys, take them on the water park rides never leaked enough to wet my smokes when I use to smoke.
That is dessicant. Not decadent.
@@marilyn5208 yes that’s correct dam spell correct ☺️Desiccare is one company. Another plus is they can be baked 245 for 12hrs and reused 😉
@@Mineral_dude sorb clay Amelco Desiccant inc
Desiccare inc also has them
damn homeboys superman repel was dope hahaha
I love your videos man. I reckon they would be even better if you try to stick to one rule for the time being: When you're narrating/commentating, try to move your head slooowly.
Yeahh buddyy
I live here in Tennessee there's a lot of caves in the state
🌊🏰 The Great Flood 🌊🏰
Wes Supermaning that pit Auzzie style was cool
he's such a wildcard man!!! Wes is the mf'n man!!
Fargo well?
Off rooo oooo ooa ooooaaoaaape!!!!!
😂😂
This appears to be a large mining pit! At some point in our past, miners were out there scooping out whatever minerals or gemstones they found in that hole. Although it wasn't that big of a "sinkhole" before they scooped it out. This is manmade don't be fooled. The digging and scooping out of soil/minerals/metals/copper/gemstones has happened all over the landscapes on every continent. it's not that big of a mystery if you really think it through.
Haha no way dude this is a straight up cave, how do you figure it’s from people mining?
Tons of natural & man-made holes.
Not man made
@@Mineral_dude Miners dig into hillsides and mountains. They dig all types of openings and caves in the mountains. They're looking for minerals and gemstones. To me, this particular spot looks like it may have been mined at some point.
@@mywhorled that's your opinion.
Bigfoot lives down there
So many cryptid researchers feel they traverse the cave systems but no one ever finds them or any real signs of them.
TAG country!!!😀
What part of Tennessee? Near hawkins county? Can you look for missing Summer Wells?
Lol brother, caving and shorts don't mix well hahahaha. Laser pointer+ small packable disco ball and string,,,,,,,lol hahahahaha It would probably be pretty awesome looking,, laser that strobes. cool pits. Thanks for sharing.
It’s funny you say that cause I actually have a video I still need to edit where we have a cave rave, lights and all at the bottom of a pit 😂
@@Mineral_dude It would be pretty cool good video material Too bad you all don't live closer to here I know of and been in hundreds of caves here In Missouri. I have been giving you all shout outs on my channel Underground adventures is subbed to me cool fellow. We tubers stick together.
I just hope I never have to hear someone say “Oh MY GOD” six times ever again.
Oh my god 😧
You guys interested in going down a sink hole yo a cave system that has feral people living in it?
Bring it on
Too many "OMGs"..... Gone.
Guys why you don't try to go to Ecuador all together and fallow Food steps or one of the astronautas.. niel Armstrong tayos cave ... have good vacation and good videos ... and lot of battery 🔋 and food... hey I know all money all you guys get sponsors.. and all the support helping you guys...
Not lot videos on details of the caves like you du... one on time life , .
Is just and ideas 💡 🤔 I enjoy all your videos. ...
Thanks for the support! Overseas caving is in my 5 year plan, I run a buisness outside of this so I’m a busy dude most of the time, I really wanna go to salvania or Thailand first honestly
legend says there is a bottomless, and demonic cave under houska castle in the chech republic. with how this entrance looks, i could believe it.
I couldn’t imagine being a cave man or something and walking up onto something like this, you’d think it’s bottomless!! It’s not like you could stand right up next to it cause of the pitch so you’d just think it went to the center of the earth, I bet they worshipped shit like this back in the day
@@Mineral_dude i watched matt carrikers recent video on the cave he is digging out. at the end of the video, he uses a drone to do a top-down view of the cave, and the hole entrance was pure black.
No helmet, no lights!👎👎👎😢😢😢
why are there not more animal skeletons down there
Cause animals ain’t stupid
Oh and I was hoping that you would not tie off to that tree next to the pit thanks for having sense enough not to do that Trees next to pit are not secure...... I know that and don't even repell hahahha.
Your one of the rare people that actually understands geometry and physics with a little bit of geography (which is nature’s physics lesson)
...but, you didn't bring the WIFE?!?! 👎
We work very different schedules so it’s hard to sync up sometimes, trust me she’s got a bunch of videos on the back burner ready to edit so you’ll be seeing more of her
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