Laura Oliver, Bob Lippold, Karlene Hanko, Brian Hansaker, Andrea Bolks, Steve Scoutaris, Jose Valdez, Hector Soreno, Nellie Colon, Sara Hughes, and Adam Haydock in Suicide Cave Indiana 28 cavers answered the call to cave at Spring Mill State Park Saturday morning around 930 AM. Some slept in heated rooms and others braved the cold but we all collected ourselves that morning to embark...
Phil Goldman in Green Eye Pit 1 Indiana We set out for the usual drive down to Indiana’s karst country with the objective of having an incredible beginners trip with the Windy City Grotto for what will turn out to be a memorable weekend for 28 cavers. I woke up around 6 am to meet up with Phil on the road as we...
Northern Cavefish Amblyopsis Spelaea and Crayfish Cambarus cryptodytes together Upper Twin Sunday morning we woke up early and got right down to the property where we would enter Upper Twin cave. We were able to obtain permission through the landowners of the private property to access the cave. Upper twin cave feeds into spring mill state park so we made sure we...
Entrance to Seitz Pit Laura and I headed out to Indiana to meetup with Chris Parks for a weekend bonanza that included a visit to King Leo cave which is home to the contortionist breezeway that spits you out into the highway passage, the multi drop Seitz pit, and Upper Twin for a nice cool Sunday swim. We stayed at Chris's house Friday...
Inside port stern quarter Milwaukee Carferry Sunday morning my dive buddy Mike Apke picked me up at around 7 am to make one last shipwreck dive trip for the season in Milwaukee. I wanted to get out to the car ferry for a long time so finally this weekend we got some time to make a two dive trip on this shipwreck. Mike...
Fantastic Pit Ellisons cave Looking down a 586ft pit on rope and knowing that we are about to drop deep into the center of a mountain is an experience that few words can describe. One word did come to mind when the drop was named and that word must have been Fantastic! Steve Scoutaris, Noboru Sakabe and Adam Haydock rented a car to take a weekend trip down to the...
