Thunder Hole 4th rappel The night before I closed my eyes at midnight and a minute later it was 7 am, at least that was what it felt like when the lack of sleep started to recharge it's empty bucket. Day Two, and we had a long day ahead of us as we had to hike up a large hill to a waterfall...
Driving into the night to go caving in TAG from Chicago has always been a great way to throw off your sleep cycle especially when going from work and driving straight to Huntsville with friends taking turns to drive. Once we got to Huntsville, we went to Troy Fugua's house to crash out for a bit before embarking on our trip. The first stop we are making is to visit Guffey Cave. We...
Toadpool Canyon, Nevada Not my photo Toadpool canyon is located in the Red Rock recreational area just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. There are three rappels that we encountered up to 35ft in length that all looked like they could have been bypassed and easy to go around. The canyon itself is pretty straightforward and ghosting techniques are used to minimize the impact...
Phil Goldman in Peachers Cave Sunday I woke up in my tent in a bit of a daze as I was up the previous night hanging out with my grottos cavers and the newbie cavers passing stories back and forth about the survey, past caving trips, and how their caving trip went in Buckner’s cave. They seemed to be in good spirits from...
Jamie Chang, Kevin Romanak, and Adam Haydock in the Diamonds In The Rough room in McIntosh Pit Kevin Romanak and I pushed a lead in a pit cave behind a auto body shop called McIntosh Pit a few weeks back that rewarded our efforts with one of the most decorated rooms in Indiana. We researched this room to see if anyone has ever...
Raymond's Cave Kentucky We got up early so we are able to get to Kentucky and on over to Raymond’s Cave and have time to drop the pit inside the cave and head back to Chicago. We get to the property, park the car, and realized we had to cross a field that was about a half mile to a tree line which was not to...
Chris Climbing out of Jager Pit Cave Indiana Chris was talking about going caving for a bit now and after our survey trip got moved over to the following weekend, we decided to go to the Lost Valley area where Jaeger Pit cave, Raymond Bliss cave, Lost Valley Pit cave, Haas Cave, Buzzard cave, and moonshine pit are located. We headed out early...
