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We very excited to present our very first guest review by Tamara Forster from San Francisco. Thank you Tamara!

Moaning Cavern sounds tame enough, a quick pit stop on the road between San Francisco and Yosemite, just another place to take little kids who, after three hours in the car, have begun mooning other drivers. But not so. This place, which looks from the outside like a standard run-down tourist trap, is a great stop for a little adventure.

First, a choice: You can rappel, or you can wriggle for several hours through dark, dirty, tight tunnels guided only by a borrowed head-lamp. Or you can take the stairs down to the bottom of the cave, snap some photos, learn about stalactites, and climb back up, but who wants to do that? I opted to rappel and, after signing my life away on various forms and watching a video concerning all the ways in which I might die, I found myself looking directly down into a small, boxy shaft which leads into a cave large enough to house the Statue of Liberty.

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