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...
Bone room in Iron Hoop, Alabama We head out from Raccoon mountain and make our way to the walmart in Scottsboro to meet up with Derek Reneer for a trip into Iron hoop cave for a nice casual trip through the cave. It has been raining for some time now so Derek allowed us to jump in his Durango which took us to...
Martin Spring Resurgence, Tennessee After the day before I was quite tired and looking forward to a day of diving orcestwell spring (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); and Maritn Spring. After Orcestwell Spring I made it over to Martin Spring for a dive into the cave resurgence of Martin Spring High Hole. Martin Spring Resurgence, Tennessee The viz was great and at around...
Surprise Pit. Justin, Melissa, Molly, Cindy, Phil, Walter, Ah, and I wake up at a decent hour and head over to the parking lot of Surprise Pit. It took a while to get to due to the road conditions but we were able to get over there in good time and made the typical hike up the mountain to the beautiful waterfall entrance...
