I was at enchanted rock with a couple friends, it was a particularly windy day and very cloudy. The rock seemed wet as if it had just rained; however I have no memory of it raining. I was with a couple friends of mine and we decided to go on a path that wasn’t actually a path so we were on our own. The wetness of the rock make me get the chills when I touched it, it was a hard path with many up and down hills where if we didn’t step where we stepped we would fall. We finally made it to the top and decided to go into the caves.
We had all been into the caves before so we figured we didn’t need any gear. We entered the cave and at first it was easy but then it got so dark that you couldn’t see your hand right in front of your face. We needed to use our phone flash lights, so there we were, spelunking in a dark and wet cave with our only salvation being the light coming from our phones. We didn’t know how but the caves seemed to have shifted since the last time we were there. It was a tighter squeeze and the arrows pointing us where to go were pointing the wrong directions so we were on our own. After what seemed like hours on slipping on rocks in the cave and debating which way we should go we saw a glimpse of light. We followed it only to find that it was a hole and the top was 30 feet higher than where we were. So obviously we decided to climb up for 2 reasons: we wanted to leave the cave and we wanted to explore what was on the outside.
There were practically no places to put your hands and feet and if you fell it meant almost certain death. First Jake went up and successfully made it up this gave us a path we could take it make it to the top. Next, it was Eamon’s turn, he made it up rather easily due to his unfair height advantage, but right before he made it up one of his foot holdings broke. This made it a lot harder for me, a shorter specimen, to try to climb out of the hole, I had to go a different more dangerous route where the rocks were more loosely bound. You know how rock climbers will get in really strange positions to reach grips or hold themselves up? Well I had to do that the whole way up. With great struggle I made it to the top only to find our next obstacle. There was a steep rock we had to get on top of.
It was a rather smooth stone, and it was quite moist. On top of that the wind on that day was 30 miles per hour. Naturally, we started up the rock. We were crawling slowly on all fours because if we stood up we would get hit with a powerful blast of wind and fall down the hole and we moved slowly because if we moved any faster the wetness of the rock would cause us to loose our footing. Right as we almost made it to the top Eamon, the one at the bottom, lost his footing; for he was wearing old shoes with very little grip. He fell down the hole and we left him there, bleeding out, because we couldn’t have gone back for him without ending up like him. Jake and I walked back to my car without saying a word to each other and that dreaded rock, and have never been since. All in all is was a pretty fun day.
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