McFails Cave - The Longest Cave in New York
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- čas přidán 26. 11. 2023
- McFail's Cave Nature Preserve is managed by the National Speleological Society (NSS). Visitation requires permission and comes with gear and group size requirements. The cave is closed from October 1 through April 30 to protect hibernating bats. This trip took place in June of 2023 during the Northeastern Regional Association (NRO) of the NSS spring caving event, hosted by the New Jersey Initial Response Team.
For more detailed information on caving techniques, caving gear, and cave projects, visit my website at: www.derekbristol.com
Caves are delicate and potentially dangerous places. For more information on wild caving, vertical caving techniques, and cave survey, visit the National Speleological Society website:
caves.org
To find a local grotto (caving club) visit:
caves.org/committee/i-o/grott...
White Nose Syndrome (WNS) is a disease that is devastating to bats. To learn more about what you can do to help, along with information on how to properly decontaminate caving gear, visit:
caves.org/WNS/index.shtml
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Love it. Beautiful area and cave.
Nice work & 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.
Nice.
Been looking forward to a new video
I love the peaceful edits, I am looking forward to the next video!
Thanks Derek, keep on exploring.
took my first trip there this year, beautiful cave
Awesome 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.
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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.
Very nice beautiful cave no information
Cable ladders!?!
McNice
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for the vid in this interesting cave- no formations?