ITAP of our underground campsite

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image showing ITAP of our underground campsite

Tychke on February 24th, 2023 at 15:50 UTC »

I know a lot of questions will pop up, so here is a little bit of extra information. Please read up before but feel free to ask for more info afterward.

We spent two nights underground in the past weekend. It is located more than three hundred km from home and we slept in an abandoned underground limestone quarry. We were here already a couple of times so we know what we are doing and are prepared.

It takes 10-15 minutes to walk from the car to the sleeping spot ‘inside’, so we pack our stuff in one or two bags and only have to walk once. We actually don’t need that much. We usually hide our stuff and then take an underground walk in the quarry before setting up and sleeping. It doesn't take much time to set this up as it's just an air mattress with a tarp underneath and our two zipped sleeping bags on top. I usually leave one candle lit overnight to get a sense of time without having to look at my phone. It’s kinda like my clock since those long candles stay lit for around 8 hours.

It's a constant 11°C in the whole quarry and definitely warmer than outside this time of the year. Usually, I get cold a couple of times during the night but this weekend, it was great. Can't really tell too much about where it is located to preserve these places so I won’t answer those questions and I hope other people commenting do the same. There is a lot of history in these underground spaces. The place got trashed already, graffiti in the region of the entrance and things disappeared from the place because it got known.

With regard to safety. I have a 5-gas detector, tested it in here and I don’t always have to bring it with me in these types of quarries since there are ventilation shafts, entrances/exits, and other holes enough to provide enough natural ventilation throughout the underground space to safely sleep there. And yes, there will be radon. Because we only sleep here for two nights and since people worked here day in, day out, it isn't that bad.

EDITS: Formatting

cfcnotbummer on February 24th, 2023 at 17:01 UTC »

Not for me thank you

Vladivostokorbust on February 24th, 2023 at 17:02 UTC »

I’ve seen an almost identical pic on Reddit before not sure if it was on r/itookapicture or r/camping.

Definitely the same place and even the bedding and candles. Perhaps a slightly different angle