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06-17-2024, 06:59 AM
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Cliffside Cave in China
Amazing drone footage of long abandoned remote cave in China. I can only imagine it had to be accessed by water carved passages within. Not going to be snuck up on in this cave.
https://youtube.com/shorts/b5SCW0AaI-k?si=_LUPdJ8a6tnGr6wm
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06-22-2024, 11:59 PM
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06-23-2024, 10:56 AM
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Reminds me of our southwest cliff dwellers.
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06-23-2024, 05:26 PM
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I can't figure it. Bringing down any necessities of survival on ropes every day, or every few days?
A big mystery for me is the fact that those wooden poles are still intact. This thing is not some thousand-year-old ruin. I've not had much experience in caving. Visited Carlsbad Caverns, and I and some other Boy Scouts once camped out at Sitting Bull Falls state park, a few miles away as the crow flies, where there are some caves to be explored. Sort of sketchy, stuff can go wrong. But I kept thinking about the Tom Sawyer's cave phenomenon, where there were underground passages that connected with other rooms. Perhaps 1 million years of water trickling through a mountain side would carve out passages to a place where the water escaped. At Sitting Bull Falls The main attraction is a small waterfall in the middle of the desert. Maybe 150 feet high and a cave in the rocks behind the fall, with a creek at the back of the cave disappearing underground. Sort of like in Tarzan movies. The cave was accessible by steps cut in the rocks. If the cave in our video were similar, there would be a full-time water supply. Groundwater running year-round. High enough at certain times of the year to flow out of the opening of the cave. That's my vote, underground passage access. Somebody found it by accident.
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06-23-2024, 05:30 PM
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06-23-2024, 06:47 PM
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I believe there were places where they entered on steps carved. And if they did things on ropes it looks like they would have gone to the top which is much shorter a route.
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06-23-2024, 07:45 PM
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This thing in China just looks so much more severe. At Mesa Verde they used ladders that would be pulled up. You couldn't make a ladder long enough to get up to that cave in the OP. And from above, looks pretty bad as well. It would be a fascinating place to explore. Then again, might be boring as hell.
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06-25-2024, 12:12 PM
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More Cliffside cave action from China. I'm guessing this must be a coffin. The other side looks to have soil and vegetation. Maybe a crude pathway was established. Perhaps the opening extends to the other side.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qQiGnrzo7DY?si=r6Dgo8JFgcxtVCCx
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