OTE at the WIT hotel downtown Chicago Every Year I try to volunteer at least twice to do some sort of work to benefit someone else. This year I volunteered with a company called OTE (Over the Edge). This is a company with rope access technicians that rig ropes on top of buildings for people to rappel over the edge that raise money...
Hoopers Well Last day in TAG and we picked up everything that we had at Troy's house and made it out to Hoopers Well for one last drop. This 100ft drop is in Monte Sano State Park area and is a very popular pit near the road. A lot of cavers come here to practice vertical training which is a nice location to practice and a...
Trenton Well We woke up a bit later to make sure we were as fresh as possible for the days trip. One of the cavers stayed back to relax from the trip yesterday so we set out to go to a beautiful pit and go to Butler Sinks afterwards to enter Paul's Cave. Trenton Well We drop the entrance and made it down...
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...
