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#TRcaves | no. 3 Venturing into an ice cave, to g

#TRcaves | no. 3

Venturing into an ice cave, to get to a limestone cave. It’s crazy to think of how long these voids have been around and yet how few people have been in them.

Sadly, this one didn’t go. It ended in a heap of frost-shattered rocks with air blasting through the crevices — tantalizing us with a hint of the unknown that lies beneath.

#TRcaves | no. 2 Oh, the places you’ll go for

#TRcaves | no. 2

Oh, the places you’ll go for project caving. Hiking through fireweed to get up into the alpine and look for caves.

Caving has certainly taken us to some beautiful, obscure parts of the world.

#TRcaves | no. 1 An hour before midnight, after 7

#TRcaves | no. 1
An hour before midnight, after 7 hours of driving, we stepped out of the car and looked up into the night sky. There, we watched as the Aurora Borealis danced across the night sky. These are the unforgettable joys of sleeping under the open sky!

The impromptu sighting of the northern lights is something we’ve always dreamed of seeing, and a pretty spectacular start to the cave expedition.

#WR2023W | no. 5 In caving, you’ll only find pas

#WR2023W | no. 5
In caving, you’ll only find passionate people, for most struggle to find the intrigue in exploring dark, damp, muddy places. Without this intrigue, caves are a hard place to pretend to enjoy, given the harshness of the environment. Additionally, there is no fame or glory in doing so. However, those that are drawn in by the curiosity of the unknown keep coming back for more. Passionate, curious people can be hard to come by, but are rather abundant within caving, making for an incredible week with these 11 cavers!

And, of course, it wouldn’t be a Canadian cave expedition without a chainsaw (pic. 4)

Then, all the cavers returned to their corners of BC (+ Calgary) // Victoria | Squamish | Nelson | Vancouver | Penticton. Until next time WR! Getting psyched for a few other BC 🇨🇦 cave expeditions between now and then…

📸 @sdehaas | @instastuarty | @sara.fleetwood | @truenorthwins

#WR2023W | no. 4 Water-sculpted marble passages, w

#WR2023W | no. 4
Water-sculpted marble passages, with howling airflow, ice, voluminous voids, vertical drops, underground streams, and multiple entrances – all hidden within a subterranean labyrinth located in a remote part of BC, waiting to be explored. This cave had it all! After a week of exploration, we had mapped 1,966m of new cave passage, increasing the surveyed length to 7,500m.

The first photo is from a day the Stus and I attempted a photo trip in the cave, freezing our asses off by the entrance trying to get photos of the frozen water flows. Our original plans were quickly foiled when learning that microspikes are a terrible tool for walking on bullet hard ice.

#WR2023W | no. 3 After landing, building snow fort

#WR2023W | no. 3
After landing, building snow forts quickly ensued and packing down the snow for the camp kitchen escalated into digging a 6 foot snow pit. Even above ground, we clearly prefer spending time underground. But, digging the pit this deep proved to not be totally ridiculous, given the winds that week.

📸 @sara.fleetwood, @sdehaas, @instastuarty

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