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PerfektNova t1_j9tzaft wrote

This pic is pretty great.

But if you're a earth porn enthusiasts, I recommend against Ruby Falls. It if full of stop here and watch a video, colored lights to make things look more exciting, and "once everyone is in to the falls room we'll start the light and music show". It is like going into a fake cave at Disney Land at this point.

A couple days before I was at Tuckaleechee Caverns and thoroughly enjoyed it. Maybe that tainted my trip to Ruby. But I'll definitely go back to Tuckaleechee and will never be returning to Ruby.

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concussive t1_j9tk0mf wrote

I’m surprised no one is mentioning that the falls is mostly dried up now and they use a pipe to pump water to the top for a tiny trickle of a waterfall. The pipe used to be covered by some fake rock wall but has begun falling off in recent years and no one cares enough to repair it.

It’s a real shame because it used to be such a cool experience as a kid but now when you get to the end you see the fake walls dangling off and an expose pipe. It’s turned into a really bad tourist trap in recent years.

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CleverDuck t1_j9tiq8b wrote

Most mammals can carry rabies, including those cute little stray kittens someone has rescued from the dumpster and is on the front page of reddit.

Bats get blamed, but they're also the second most numerous branch of mammals... so that's a pretty obviously numbers game. 🤷 Emergent diseases are typically out of tropical areas, too... and that's just "welcome to the tropics."

In North America, you're faaaar more likely to get permanently fucked up from a tick bite.

In the current era, Cavers are rarely interacting with bats when they're caving... because it's shitty to disturb wildlife. We know where they roost, and when they roost in given areas-- it's not rocket science. Not all caves have large colonies of bats.

Caving has far fewer injuries than most other "adventure sports," and faaaar fewer fatalities. You know what kills plenty of people? Skiing and scuba diving and whitewater.

Yes, caves can be extremely dangerous to people with zero basic experience (especially the drunk/high ones who only have handheld flashlights). But in my experience, it takes all of a year or so for the average person to become baseline competent at the activity in a recreational capacity.

Slip / trips are the single biggest cause of injuries in caves. We know because we thoroughly document these things in annual accident reports.

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Hope that helps clear up things. It's nice to not spread misinformation.

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