![]() ![]() While no experience is necessary, a “moderate level of fitness” is required, advises the website, which adds that the smallest space “to wiggle and squeeze through” is about “the size of a manhole.”īy comparison, Vancouver Island, which boasts the highest concentration of caves in North America, has 1,800 known caves.Īmong the most accessible and remarkable are four wild caves at Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park, north of Qualicum Beach, B.C. “So, it’s truly an amazing place to experience caving for the first time.”Ĭanmore Cave Tours provides all gear to explore the cave (including helmet and headlamp, coveralls, kneepads, gloves, harness and safety lanyard), on either a four-and-a-half-hour tour ($135) or a six-hour tour ($175). “You’re actually going through the experience of what it’s like to explore inside a wild cave,” says Stenner. Rat’s Nest Cave features spectacular cave formations, such as creamy flowstone, delicate soda straws, stalactites and stalagmites, but it is not a “show cave.” It’s pitch-dark, with no lights, handrails or stairs – just plenty of places thrdeugh which to climb, crawl, squeeze, slither and, in one passage, drop 18 metres (that’s six storeys) on a rappel. But it’s in this totally alien environment,” says Stenner. And caving is a sport that shares a lot of similarity with those outdoor pursuits. ![]() “What struck me the most is I’d been mountaineering, rock climbing and those sorts of things. ![]() Myles Fullmer, owner of Horne Lake Cavesīut the subterranean trailblazer (and office worker by day) still vividly recalls the thrill of his first caving experience – the one that launched his “compulsion.”Īt Rat’s Nest Cave in the Rockies, near Canmore, Alta., Stenner had joined a tour with Canmore Cave Tours, which has provided guided tours of the four-kilometre cave for 30 years. You can sleep a long time in absolute darkness. We’d cave hard for 16 hours and then we would sleep for 16 hours. ![]()
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