JaekCaves
Greetings fellow earthlings and welcome to JaekCaves! Your window into the world beneath our feet.
From uncharted passage crawls to breathtaking crystal cave formations, this channel is dedicated to the grit and beauty of extreme caving.
What to expect:
Learn about caves, their creatures, and formations.
Technical rope work and vertical descents.
Exploration of forgotten cave systems.
Gear reviews that actually survive the mud.
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If you've never gone out in the middle of the night to hunt for creatures with a UV light, well this is your sign. Seriously becoming one of my most favorite things to do on camping trips! 🙌🔦
P.s. They're also super fun to take into caves!
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Can anyone tell me what these are or how they form? I've never come across any formations like these in caves before! They were at the bottom of pools of water inside rimstone dams in only one section of a Tennessee cave. At first I thought they were soda straws (baby stalactites) that had fallen in and started to build up calcite, but some of them are so curved I don't think that's what they are, plus there was no indication that they ever existed on the ceiling above.
2 days ago | [YT] | 24
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Thanks to @ActionAdventureTwins for taking me to some truly amazing and awful places on a recent Tennessee trip! 😅 Best of both worlds right there. Incredibly huge walkthrough passages that go for miles and terribly tight pancake squeezes through water and mud. If that's not a caving trip I don't know what is! Just put out a video from this trip and working on more now!
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You never know what you'll find at the top of a 70ft unmapped canyon cave 😳. Just posted the full video! https://youtu.be/LIDKa5UgIng
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 22
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Had an awesome time at Karstorama in Kentucky over the weekend! Explored some cool caves, met some amazing people, learned some new vertical techniques, and finally learned how to properly survey a cave! The older I get the less I like going to big events with lots of people, but it's not so bad when you're surrounded by a bunch of fellow nature loving weirdos. 😅
1 month ago | [YT] | 31
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The best part about caving? 50% exploring the cave 50% exploring the area getting to the cave! Pretty sure we creek walked through one of the most magical hidden places in Kentucky to get to this cave. The waterfalls, moss, vines, thousands of mayflies or whatever they were landing all over us, it was an amazing adventure! And also the cave was pretty cool. 😅
3 months ago | [YT] | 43
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Some of you may not know, but I don't spend all my time underground! 😅 I'm also a rappelling/rock climbing guide in Hocking Hills, Ohio. Go check out Hocking Hills Adventure Trek if you'd like to rappel this 120ft waterfall yourself! It's seriously one of the coolest experiences in Ohio and no skills needed. We take beginners all the time! 💚
4 months ago | [YT] | 19
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Caves are living things. How do I know? Because I've been to the brain of a cave. 🧠
4 months ago | [YT] | 32
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Just your basic cave nothing to see here, keep scrolling... Wait, actually this one was pretty sweet! A drainage pipe that opened up into an underground wonderland! This cave had it all. Beautiful formations, slot canyon passages, tight squeezes that opened up to big rooms, multi-level passages that you could climb around in, natural bridges/arches, even came across a few pools full baby salamanders. These photos are screenshots from my GoPro. Full video is on my channel and I'm currently working on the second part that shows all the natural bridges and crazy obstacle course we went through after this!
4 months ago | [YT] | 28
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Here are some pretty neat fossils I've come across in caves in Kentucky! I recently read they found a new species of shark while exploring a famous cave out there. Although I haven't found anything that compares to that, it is still one of the coolest things about caving. Just seeing the history of the world through the geology beneath our feet. You just never know what you'll come across down there. And who knows maybe one day I'll make a major discovery! 🤞
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