Tears of the Turtle Cave, 2024 expedition, part 2

Into the cave we go, after a few days that felt like a lifetime of mishaps

This long-delayed followup is the second post in a series that describes the 2 weeks I spent on an expedition to continue exploration at the bottom of Tears of the Turtle Cave, the deepest cave in the US, in the summer of 2024. Check out part 1 first, or just read this post if you only want to hear about what happened in the cave, and nothing before that. These 2 weeks were the second half of my month of caving I did early July through early August 2024. The first half I was on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, as I described in a previous post. We entered the cave at 6:46pm. The upper part…

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