cap n chris
Well-known member
Caving turns of phrase often result in a bit of eye-blinking.
The one which most commonly gets the mind squiggling is hearing that people have "done" a cave rather than visited it.
Presumably to do a cave infers more than a quick whizz around a classic route, e.g. to have visited most of it, hence leaving nothing more to do.
Or is it fair to lay claim to having done something by the merest action of popping in, albeit briefly, beyond the limit of daylight penetration?
Why can't we say we've visited a cave, rather than having to say we've done the cave?
The one which most commonly gets the mind squiggling is hearing that people have "done" a cave rather than visited it.
Presumably to do a cave infers more than a quick whizz around a classic route, e.g. to have visited most of it, hence leaving nothing more to do.
Or is it fair to lay claim to having done something by the merest action of popping in, albeit briefly, beyond the limit of daylight penetration?
Why can't we say we've visited a cave, rather than having to say we've done the cave?
