Colin and Tama Tandum climbing out of Conley Hole. We woke up super early to make sure we fit two massive caves into our schedule for the day, Conley Hole and Mystery Falls. Conley Hole is a 161 ft drop into a large dome room with some interesting features at the bottom and mystery falls is a 270 ft drop into a HUGE...
Entrance to the Enchanted Forest It was a long drive from Chicago for us to Monticello Kentucky where we got a shady ass motel for the night to rest and prepare for our summer TAG trip. Noboru Sakabe, Adam Haydock, met up with Chris Parks at the roach motel to rest for a trip into Wolf River Cave and the attempt at our lofty goal of TAG pits. The...
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana Around 20,000 years ago the glaciers receded back into the Lake Michigan Basin and deposited these sand hills which rendered this massive amount of sand we can find today at the National Lakeshore. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana As the receded, there were points where the dunes created kettle ponds which can be found today in the form...
Shipwreck of the St. Albans After finding out that the St. Albains and the EMBA were at around 150-160 to the dirt I wanted to make sure I got out to these two shipwrecks this summer and after some equipments updates, I was able to get these last two dives in before the viz in the lake started going down. My Dive Buddy...
Entrance to Wells Cave Jorge and Rich Pagels were waiting around all day to do something since they are not vertical cavers so i wanted to make sure we were able to get something horizontal in before it got too late. I got back and Laura, Rich, Jorge, and myself got to Wells cave in good time. We rigged a hand line and...
Wilson's Pit Right after Easy Pit we made it over to the location where Wilson's Pit has eroded its way to the surface. This is a 100 ft pit where 30ft is on a ledge and another 80 ft is a free fall down a large borehole pit. Rappelling this pit was a nice because you pass stratified rock layers which was like taking an elevator tour back in...
