(July 17, 2014 at 4:50 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(July 17, 2014 at 4:35 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I hiked the Mt. St. Helens lava tubes in high school and it was incredible to discover just how dark absolute darkness was. My friend and I would turn off our flashlights and there was just... nothing... it was wild!
Many years ago, my ex and I used to explore lava tubes down in the central Oregon area. One time, we camped out on a sandy cave floor almost a mile from the entrance. It was super spooky to wake up in the pitch black, having *no* idea what time it was, whether it was day or night... you get the idea. Neither of us slept real well.
I did that once in Santa Cruz. There is a cave that goes by many names (Beelzebub's Bunghole being the one my buddies and I used). Once I'd made arrangements to explore this one again with a friend on a Saturday and also had an invite to a party on the UC campus the Friday night before. Suffice to say I didn't get lucky enough to have another alternative so I spent the night in the cave. In one of the larger rooms there was a raised platform just large enough to sit up in, but off to the side of anyone's conceivable pathway. Slept just fine. Wouldn't do it now for multiple reasons.
