Re: Nutty Putty Cave (utah county, utah)

On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 8:01:47 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thursday, July 1, 1999 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: 
> > Still begging for info... I am most interested in sizes of rooms and 
> > any verticle sections other than "the big slide". I realize this is a 
> > small cave and probably not much info out there on it but i just want 
> > to be prepared.
> The cave was plugged in 2009 after an amateur caver brought his family 
> down in it. He thought he was going through the birth canal but actually 
> got stuck in a 'go nowhere' portion towards the bottom called ed's push. 
> His body was stuck upside down and the angle of his legs made it impossible 
> for them to pull him up and then out. It was a beautiful albeit highly trafficked 
> cave, and it's a shame that it's now basically a massive underground tomb 
> for a jackass that had no business being inside of it.
I concur completely with your last sentence.  I find it outrageous that the cave had to be sealed in concrete because a hotshot med. student couldn't read the cave map correctly!