Nutty Putty Cave (utah county, utah)

[ther...@my-deja.com]

Well it appears my trip is going to be postponed for another week
according the latest wheather forcast. That just leaves me more time
to beg and plead and beg some more for info this small cave.
I have a map of the cave and about all i know about it is that south of
the main entrance is fairly flat and the only gear you need is lights,
helmets,food, first aid kits etc... west and then north of the main
entrance si the big slide wich is apoxiatematley a 30 degree angle
along with a 15' drop. I also understand that most of the cave is
fairly small. Any other info about this cave would be greatly
apreciated.

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[ther...@my-deja.com]

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.

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[shin...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, July 1, 1999 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, ther...@my-deja.com 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.

[Mike S Goodmann]

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!

[shin...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 3, 2023 at 2:17:34 AM UTC-7, Mike S Goodmann wrote:

> 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!

Having been in the cave once I can see how somehow who doesn't understand, recognize, or doesn't have a chaperone to explain the scale of the map, if they had one, against the actual size of the cave. A huge amount of the cave is full of squeezes and chambers that even short/thin amateurs would have had trouble in, so I would otherwise understand someone getting a bit confused where they may be at. This guy was at 15 stone, 6'1" tall. Then the local and then even national media sensationalized it into a ticking time bomb story, which it ultimately was

The cave was on SITLA land, which those guys can't be bothered to manage anything, and they had already had rescues in the past with it with some boy scout troops. Factor in the Utah culture and angle of the family and they had a cement mixer up there practically the next day and capping the mountain with a bronze memorial

It's odd to me that they wouldn't let things settle then go in later for recovery, but they dynamited the system of tubes he was in. A lot of families would want something different I would think. It was also odd to me the wife (while pregnant when it happened) went on to marry another guy not long later (big Utah thinking cap)