Reply #3: yeah, caving. Seriously.

[yellowdogintexas]

You get all your gear on and stuff, pack your bag and take of, walking through the woods or whatever to get to the entrance, and if you are lucky it is a walking in type not a crawling in type of cave.

Then you (again if you are lucky) stroll through the walking areas of the cave until you get where you are going.

sometimes you walk a while, then you crawl, then you climb, then you stoop, wrap yourself around a few things, slide under a few things, then you dig, wade, slide.

Then you turn around and do it all in reverse.

If you are doing cave survey, and it is a walking cave and you are doing the map, then it truly is leisurely walking, with stops to do the survey.

It is great exercise. When I was caving regularly, I could eat the world and stay at around 115 to 120 pounds, and I wasn't doing much else in the way of workouts or anything..just a good cave trip once or twice a month. You burn up a lot of calories just keeping warm in the cave.