El Yoyo, Part 3: Going Up
I’ve gotten my fill of the pit’s bottom, and now I begin one of the most strenuous, terrifying and sublime climbs of my life.
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El Yoyo, Part 2: At Bottom
Having safely arrived at the bottom of my harrowing drop into El Sótano de las Huahuas, I take a moment to calm down, enjoy the atmosphere and contemplate why it is I do these things.
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Yoyo-ing is a subdiscipline of caving where the vertical dimension dominates the horizontal. Being a climber, I’d expected Mexican sótanos to be a piece of cake. Boy was I wrong.
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There’s a radical transformation that takes place for those who descend into the caves of southeast New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains — as if the world were changing before your very eyes.
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A first cave-centered pilgrimage to “The Guads” induces awe and reveals cosmic mysteries.
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A trip to Cave of the Domes, the only cavern in Grand Canyon National Park that’s open to recreational caving.
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Unusually warm and dry weather in northeastern Arizona enables a trio of intrepid canyoneers to explore one of the countless side canyons of Grand Canyon country.
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