THE DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF FIDDLER ON THE ROOF CAVE, NEVADA
June 28, 2021
Weakness in stone. It is quite the popular focus point with many outdoor stores.
looking for a weakness in cracks or faults is a good number of climbing routes.
Following down drainages made by watershed or weaknesses in stone is what most canyoneering routes originate from.
In Caving, most every cave is caused by solutional processes especially in weaknesses in joint controlled, watershed, or a fault.
Usually we are going down when we are caving, not in this situation.
This cave went up!
We had to aid climb our way up into the entrance of the cave.
We spent the day climbing up into this cave and to our surprise, the cave kept going up!
Greg was leading the first pitch and I led the second pitch up into a platform.
The cave continued to go up and to the right, which appeared to be another room.
It turned out to be a dome room so we headed back and Greg found another lead heading up
He was able to climb and found himself in yet another dome room.
The cave is now over 200 feet of passage and 160 feet high!
Could this be the highest in cave aid climb in Nevada?
We headed back out and a survey team will need to go back at some point to get the map completed.
We named this cave, fiddler on the roof since we were fiddling around just under the roof of the ridge
I recommend this cave if you want to practice aid climbing and climb into a cave.
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