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Spelunking / Rock Climbing Spelunking is the recreational sport of exploring wild caves. Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural rock formations or man-made rock walls.

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Old 09-29-2012, 01:49 PM   #1
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There are some caves we tend to 'borrow' when we go hunting up in the White Mountains. We've used them to get out of bad weather and even camped out in them two or three times. The last time we went, we noticed some bear scat and a few small bones so we think a bear had been using it. What would you do if you found an animal in a cave you were exploring?


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Old 09-29-2012, 04:31 PM   #2
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Hi...


Exactly the same thing that I did when I found the last one...!!


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Old 09-29-2012, 05:01 PM   #3
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Took my cub scouts out to Bobcat Cave, a lava tube, in the Snake River Plain. Why was it called bobcat cave? Dunno unless someone saw a bobcat in there once.

This cave had been stumbled on to 3 or 4 times without anyone remembering how to get back to it. It was loaded with native artifacts dating all the way back to the Clovis era. Finally, someone was able to find their way back, gave the Anthropology dept at Idaho State U the coordinates and all those artifacts are now in the ISU museum of Nat History.

Anyway, in we go, 2 leaders and 8 cubbies and right off the bat, Benjamin makes a flying leap at something trying to catch it. Luckily he missed and momma bobcat made it through the rock tangle to her babies. In addition to the petroglyphs and pictographs on the walls, the boys also got to see a real live den of bobcats, complete with 3 little faces hissing and momma growling and hissing. And Benjamin went home unshredded but undaunted feeling next time he would catch that ole bobcat.

In answer to your question, other than Benjamin, the rest of us left those bobcats alone, minimizing our impact on them.


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What would I do? Uh.....RUN!!! LOL seriously, I believe in live and let live even in the wild. I do not want to go up and shake a bear's paw like some loopy people do. I've seen people at the Great Smoky Mountain NP, grab their kids and run toward the bear to take their kids picture with the "cute little mommy bear and her cubs". Really people? Are you insane? I have a very healthy respect for anything that could tear out my neck and let me bleed to death.


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