On Jul 13, 7:03*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:54:35 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:
in front and swallow your fear and push downward with your toes as you
passed through a place too tight to wiggle at all, only your toes
allowed you to push ahead. *

Don't people get stuck in places like that? I read recently about a
kid who was cut out of a tight spot with power drills.

Casady

People get stuck all the time but in general, if you can get into it,
you can get out of it with some effort. Mostly, it is a matter of
relaxing enough.
The worst is getting someone injured out. I was once on a trip where
we carried long term supplies into Great Expectations cave in Wyoming
because it was realized that if someone got a broken arm or leg they
would be in there for a long time. Since I injured my back and have
it recur at inconvenient times, my great fear is of having it go bad
during a trip so I don't do difficult trips anymore.
In a local cave with a very tight long twisting crawl, a caver died
after hitting his head and drowning. To get his body out, 20 cavers
used all kinds of equipment to greatly enlarge the passage to get the
body bag out. It took nearly a week.
Believe it or not, it is probably safer than boating on July 4.