After Smith Creek Cave over by Great Basin, We made out way over to Ely and down to Whipple Cave which was quite the distance traveled after considering how far we had to go back home to! But, this cave was worth it!!! Whipple Cave, Nevada After pushing through some rain and more rain, we made it to a wet dirt road which was...
Day 3 and our last day out in the desert, the crew wanted to get a couple more caves so we stopped by one cave that was a gypsum canyon like passage. It was quite small in length but it had some nice corrosion residue and gypsum crust peeling off the wall. We headed over to another gypsum cave that was vertical with...
Smith Creek Cave, Utah After pushing the underwater passage as far as I could in the Gandy Warm Springs Beware Cave, we spotted the large cave entrance to Smith Creek Cave five miles from the cave itself on the dirt road. We made my way over to the cave via another more rocky dirt road until we got to the point where we could...
Day two of the crews desert caving trip and we went to visit 5 caves. Each of these caves were pretty close to each other and the caves were small but interesting enough fit 5 of them into our day. The caves are small but they have some interesting geologic features to them that make these caves great to visit. The first cave...
The deserts mystery is infinite and will always hold its secrets with a very steadfast determination to keep those secrets from being visited to all but the few who are lucky enough to visit them. This trip was to explore some of these fascinating places and and help responsible cavers develop skill sets, photo document, some of the caves, and to help preserve...
