Buggy Top Cave!

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Buggy Top Cave! This is a natural but easy-ish cave in the Cumberland Plateau. 2 mile hike each way to the entrance, 400 ft elevation drop then gain, so fairly easy.

Inside the cave:
You need TWO, I repeat, TWO sources of light minimum so you have a backup. Your primary MUST be a headlamp (you need both hands free ideally). I am going to check before we start, I am not going to let you go if you do not have a headlamp and a decent backup (phone light does not count).
Your shoes WILL get wet, so if you don't want to hike out in wet shoes, bring a second pair to leave at the entrance to change into for the way out.
Long pants are a MUST, no shorts. I'm not bringing enough bandaids for your scraped knees.
If you WANT: Swim trunks and a towel, there's about a 3 ft deep "pond" with a sandy beach. If you don't want to swim in freezing mountain cave pond, feel free to just hang out on the "beach"
This isn't equipment, this is an FYI: The cave is VERY VERY VERY wet and muddy. There's condensation dripping from everywhere, the rocks are coated in mud and slick, there's a stream running through it. There's loose and un-stable rocks. This is not for someone who is not surefooted.
We'll be going about 3/4 mile ("Guesstimate"?) into the cave, then back. Expect 2-3 hours inside the cave. About 10 minutes in, there's one spot where you have to take off your pack and push it in front of you on all fours, for about 15 ft. But it's wide just not tall, so not claustrophobic. But many other places you'll be on all fours scrambling up and down rocks. If you cannot do a pushup, pullup, or reverse dip DO NOT COME!!!. I don't want to be dragging somebody up a muddy rock because they can't lift their own weight

Outside the Cave:
It's two miles to get to the entrance, so about 1 hr. Expect 3 hours in the cave, then enough energy to get back out the 2 miles. Pretty basic trail, if you can't handle the rock scrambles on it, then you shouldn't enter the cave!
You want a backpack, with a sack inside it. In the backpack you want everything for the cave: Swimsuit and towel for the pond, knee/elbow pads if you want them, 2 lights, water/beer, camera if it's not waterproof be careful. In the sack, you'll drop it at the cave entrance. Spare shoes if you want them, water for the hike out, you're gonna put your wallet, keys, pocketknife, anything else you can't afford to loose in there and we'll shove it behind a rock at the entrance.

I really hope y'all come! It's not scary, I just tried to cover every detail that might come up. But really, just be physically capable, shoes with tread, and two lights and you'll be fine. I've been in this cave about a dozen times, I know it pretty well.