Quicksand Fans

After reading Nessie's posting in this thread, I decided to submit a video I made back on July 25'th of 2007, of a patch of quicksilt forming a mouth around my waist, which is steadily chewing away at me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Pss90jDEI

i bet that felt great ,. whats the deepest you have managed to get in that?

ever gone under in one of your horizontal sinks?

gaz

i love it. any chance there's more?

Bon appetite!

gamwam wrote:i bet that felt great ,. whats the deepest you have managed to get in that?

ever gone under in one of your horizontal sinks?

gaz

Many years ago, in a separate spot on the valley bottom to the west of the slide, there was a bunch of soft silt spilled over the area from a different part of the hillside, and when it was quite soft, I was able to work myself horizontally under a fallen tree, and managed to lay back and totally submerge myself for the first time ever in the quicksilt! I had some scratches from my buoyancy grinding me against the underside of the fallen tree, but it was worth it!

arisumudvixen wrote:i love it. any chance there's more?

Here is another clip of the bog chewing at me, but it is only 9 seconds long, and took place just before the first one I posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_rT3ZKM5Q

And here is the video of me first sinking into that patch of mire (first for that day, because I think I had sunk into it on an earlier visit when it was softer, which made it this thick when I returned), with the video ending when I reach my knees. It was extremely thick stuff, which took long to sink into, and made interesting sucking and farting noises as I struggled! All these videos were taken July 25'th, 2007 on my previous camera (Olympus Stylus 770SW), which was in a lower resolution. Anyways, I had shot it as 4 videos, because I wanted to keep them below 10 megs for posting originally, but that has changed now that I am posting on YouTube. So, I merged the 4 short videos into one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ao6uo__je0