Smelter tower in Panamint City Death Valley Panamint City is a high desert ghost town located in California's Death Valley national park in the Panamint mountain range. Panamint city was booming destination for mining prospectors in the late 1800s which rewarded these committed miners and families with silver and copper to prospectors and their families. Panamint City, Death Valley The revenue generating city...
Sunbeam cave is a Arizona cave that seems to get some traffic from the local caving community and other people with the damage that has occurred within this cave. This is a callout for protection for this cave and all caves for that matter for anyone who chooses to visit them. These caves play a significant role to research and the environment, as...
Chocolate drop is a mine feature where miners hit a weakness in the rock creating this collapse and the geologic feature we see today. The void has a rusty sulfur type smell and seems to have a lot of corrosion on the walls which appears to have created this weakness. There were multiple passages that continued but without proper equipment and gas meters...
Barbed wire cave is a horizontal cave located within the state of Arizona. The Length is around 1000 feet and sees a decent amount of traffic from local Arizona Grottos. The entrance has piles of old rusty barbed wiring, hence the name of the cave. Ain't Barbed Wire cave is a different cave that has extensive passage that is over a mile...
South Dakota Badlands The badlands is an interesting place as it is deposited material from millions of years of build up from the original baseline bottom of an inland sea almost 80 million years ago. South Dakota Badlands The sand, volcanic, and mud have spread out into this area so the action of wind and water eroded this geologic beauty as to...
Poachers Pit is another Arizona cave that has a couple hundred feet of passage and some downclimbing involved. If you know where this cave is located and youa re in the area, it is worth a visit. If you are interested in learning more about caving, please reach out to me or your local grotto. ...
Walter dropping into the third drop in Norsemans well, Alabama Last day of my weeklong trip in tag and we headed to Norsemans well for some high water waterfall rap fun in this remote system. It has ben raining all day and night and all day when we arrived at the parking spot for norsemans, so we headed out to seek the cave. We...
