La Salle Explorers

[hedge]

"So I assume you didn't tell her..."

Yeah, they know about the Goat Pen, but I don't think they really understand. But this place has always been like Twitter 10 years (at least) before Twitter existed...

[eCat]

from Tosh

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[Jungle Rat]

Tosh is funny but after awhile he gets old.

[Jungle Rat]

Sorta like Wizard

[10ac]

Wizard was funny?

[Jungle Rat]

True.

[T Dot O Dot]

Tosh's opening 10 minutes of video/funny reaction is good stuff

the segments afterward where he has to carry the show himself are absolutely horrible

[Jungle Rat]

Somehow I know this guy traces back to eCat.

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[Bklyn]

Definitely.

[sardis]

I see no danger in shitting on the Greeks, but I don't think it bodes well long term to foster angst with India...

http://news.yahoo.com/britain-india-dia ... 50576.html

[Bklyn]

They'll get over it.

[Jungle Rat]

Just like they got over The Sobotkas.

[AugustWest]

Rinjani mountain.

[AugustWest]

Fjallfoss waterfall in Iceland


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[AugustWest]

Mount Baker, WA

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[Jungle Rat]

[Bklyn]

...and that's how we will ultimately beat them.

[eCat]

got back last night from a weekend of caving.

We took the boys to Hidden River Cave. There was about 25 of us that went.

Hidden River cave is a cave that is close in length to Mammoth cave but doesn't have many branches off of it. Its been known about and explored since the late 1890s but by the late 50's so many chemicals were being dumped into it the water became toxic and they shut the mine down. It was shut down for over 40 years. The water was so toxic that the city above it - Horse Cave, which the cave used to be called, wouldn't allow parking on main street and the jewelry store couldn't leave gold out on the counter because it would turn colors.

So naturally we thought it was a great idea to bring a group of growing boys down into this and tromp around for 4 hours. They divide us up into 2 groups and I was the first group that goes in.

It was actually pretty fun. They set us up with two guides - a lead guide in the front and a rear guide to make sure we didn't lose anyone. We started out hiking in about ankle deep water thru the river and this went for about 1/4 of a mile, then we moved up above the water line and into the caverns. At some points we had to crawl on our stomachs because there was less than 2 feet of space.

Some of the boys parents came along. One parent in particular was an older guy - who just happened to be the assistant manager at Lowes (remember my refrigerator story? - luckily he doesn't know who I am ). Anyways - at one point along the way we had to crawl about 50 yards on our stomach and then crawl up thru a tight space that opened up into a wider cavern. So this guy was just in front of the rear guide and its his turn to come out of the crawl space into the open cavern.

Here is a picture of him doing it

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So at this point the guy is pretty out of shape to begin with- maybe late 50's, early 60's and he's got a pretty good belly on him - so he's been struggling to get thru this crawl space for 50 yards to begin with and now he has to go thru a tight spot and pull himself up. He can't get any traction and now he is stuck, so he fights for maybe 5 minutes and finally the front guide, the woman in blue who has already gone thru tells the rear guide behind him (you can't see him in the picture), to let the guy use him as traction for his feet, so the rear guide grabs his feet and tells him to push off. Whats funny is every time the guy tries to push off, he blasts a fart into the rear guides face and this goes on 7 or 8 times - and this in a crawl space with no air circulation, in a cavern with natural echoes. I'm literally biting my lip, wheezing like that cartoon dog Mutley, trying not to bust out laughing.

After that he was done, we almost had to carry the Lowes guy out he was so tired, so we get back, have dinner that night (and even if I'm bragging, I can make one kick ass peach cobbler in a dutch oven over a campfire) and he goes to bed. So the scoutmasters were sitting around the campfire later that night and I had them laughing telling them this story, but even funnier to me was the second group was about 5 minutes behind us, and all 10 of them had to crawl thru that guys farts. They were blaming it one of the kids in the front until I told them that story.

[BigRedMan]

Awesome.

[Bklyn]

and even if I'm bragging, I can make one kick ass peach cobbler in a dutch oven over a campfire

Seems like you and Mr. Lowes know all about the dutch oven.