>> Yeah - I want the looks of a warm summer but not the feel.<<
Closest I can think of to that would be alpine territory. It's always cooler than below.
>> Maybe I would be better off hoping for some kind of air conditioned suit :)
Those do exist. The piped bodysuits are damn expensive. Much cheaper, however, is tucking ice packs under your clothes. I've done it for summer events, because I am like a candy bar: I melt quickly in the sun.
>> Ooh... what kinds of caves? I don't think I've ever been in a cave, like a natural cave - I've toured old mines, and I guess that's a little similar. Damp, though, but so is everything in my country :)
I've been in a bunch of different caves. I like live, wet cave better than dead, dry ones but I will explore just about any cave that offers a tour. Small ones have less flashy features but the groups are small and the guides more willing to goof around or go off-script. Big famous caves have stunning features but you usually get a canned presentation.
The last one I visited had just been opened. At one point there was a naked vein of flint overhead. Bare nodules the size of a fist or two, just hanging out of the ceiling, like it was boiling with rocks. I left a note in the guestbook that someone really ought to look for where that vein transects the surface, because if any of that area is not ploughed -- and there were creeks and hills all through, so it's a chance -- then search for signs of old hunting camps. Last chance for flint before mammoths!
I've been to Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad Caverns, which are big famous ones with lots of pictures.
Some places have caves carved by wind and sand instead of water. Those are a very different experience, and they tend to have colorful walls -- they're often carved from sandstone, rather than the limestone of wet caves.
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Date: 2022-05-01 08:15 am (UTC)Closest I can think of to that would be alpine territory. It's always cooler than below.
>> Maybe I would be better off hoping for some kind of air conditioned suit :)
Those do exist. The piped bodysuits are damn expensive. Much cheaper, however, is tucking ice packs under your clothes. I've done it for summer events, because I am like a candy bar: I melt quickly in the sun.
>> Ooh... what kinds of caves? I don't think I've ever been in a cave, like a natural cave - I've toured old mines, and I guess that's a little similar. Damp, though, but so is everything in my country :)
I've been in a bunch of different caves. I like live, wet cave better than dead, dry ones but I will explore just about any cave that offers a tour. Small ones have less flashy features but the groups are small and the guides more willing to goof around or go off-script. Big famous caves have stunning features but you usually get a canned presentation.
The last one I visited had just been opened. At one point there was a naked vein of flint overhead. Bare nodules the size of a fist or two, just hanging out of the ceiling, like it was boiling with rocks. I left a note in the guestbook that someone really ought to look for where that vein transects the surface, because if any of that area is not ploughed -- and there were creeks and hills all through, so it's a chance -- then search for signs of old hunting camps. Last chance for flint before mammoths!
I've been to Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad Caverns, which are big famous ones with lots of pictures.
https://www.nps.gov/maca/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm
https://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.carlsbad-caverns.all.html
Some places have caves carved by wind and sand instead of water. Those are a very different experience, and they tend to have colorful walls -- they're often carved from sandstone, rather than the limestone of wet caves.