{"id":44,"date":"2025-07-27T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:49:26","slug":"your-first-cave-trip","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/?page_id=44","title":{"rendered":"Caving 101"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/?page_id=200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tezza-1046-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Case not smiling like a 19 year old boy\" class=\"wp-image-188\" title=\"Your First Caving Trip\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tezza-1046-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tezza-1046-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tezza-1046-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tezza-1046-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tezza-1046-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/?page_id=200\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"200\"><strong>Your First Caving Trip<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/?page_id=184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rose_cemetarypit-4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rose_cemetarypit-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rose_cemetarypit-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rose_cemetarypit-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rose_cemetarypit-4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rose_cemetarypit-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/?page_id=184\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"184\"><strong>Vertical Caving<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/?page_id=206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4082-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4082-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4082-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4082-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4082-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4082.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/?page_id=206\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"206\"><strong>Project Caving<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:58px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Caving in it of itself.. Has alot of content and categories and subcategories&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:62px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Holy Grail of info is the <a href=\"http:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tt-2.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tt-2.pdf\">Prospective Member Manual (\u201cTrainee Trog\u201d)<\/a> !! If you are to read any of the sources provided please please read this one !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:64px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Matthew and Gracie Go Caving.. the Movie? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;\">\n  <div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n    <iframe \n      src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VExBgUbKg9M\" \n      frameborder=\"0\" \n      allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" \n      allowfullscreen \n      style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\">\n    <\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caving in it of itself.. Has alot of content and categories and subcategories&#8230; The Holy Grail of info is the Prospective Member Manual (\u201cTrainee Trog\u201d) !! If you are to read any of the sources provided please please read this one !! Matthew and Gracie Go Caving.. the Movie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vpi.caves.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}