....if General Discussion fell down that shaft.

It's part of a large cave system of passages and drops that reaches a total depth of over 3,000 ft.

...that made me sick just looking at the pic. One of you would need to carry my hysterical, vomiting body out of there. Oh, and I bite.

Holy F**k!

Mel's Hole is a supposed geographic anomaly discovered by Mel Waters on his land near Ellensburg, Washington.

According to Waters, the hole has paranormal properties, including a possibly infinite depth and the ability to restore dead animals to life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%27s_Hole

Is that still a thing?

unless they are in on it too!!

Go hike the Angel's Rest Trail at Zion Nat'l Park, Utah.







I don't know the people in these pics, but they obviously handled it better than I did.


I did it many years ago and I was literally traumatized by the experience.

I will never go back.

Beautiful pictures.

In my case, the deepest drop I've ever descended in a cave was only about 100 feet. But there's something about distances underground that seem much longer and deeper than they do in the world above. The free descent I made on free rappel from a small passage down into the big room in Lost Soldier's Cave in Sequoia National Park was relatively short but still very impressive to descend 100 feet down into a large space where your light doesn't reach the sides. I wasn't traumatized but awed by the beauty and mystery of the experience. Here's a pic I found online of that drop.

a series of over twenty{23, maybe } extremely steep switchbacks that precedes the climb to Angel's Landing. I just love Zion National Park. I feel that it's the Park that best represents the beauty of the amazing canyon country of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah.

I think Angel's Rest is up in Oregon

Yow!



Bake