OK so who's been caving?

[Eve]

How did you manage to break your finger while walking?

[JoeyS]

How did you manage to break your finger while walking?

Slipped on some rocks in a dry creekbed and tried to arrest my fall with my hand. I have to wear a splint but i don't like it. It's my writing hand.

[Hatch]

I was behind him when he fell and saw it. His feet just went to the right and he fell on his left side. It was my 13th caving trip, so I guess something was bound to happen. At least he "self rescued" by making the through trip un-assisted.

[kvart]

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[mgmills]

Slipped on some rocks in a dry creekbed and tried to arrest my fall with my hand. I have to wear a splint but i don't like it. It's my writing hand.

Bummer - I've seen several falls in TAG area streambeds. Those rocks sometimes look dry but they have that "slime" layer on them. Also remember to watch for snakes in those dry streambeds.

Gross Skeleton is one of my favorite caves. This time of the year the water does sometimes get a little stagnent in places. Did you guys climb up the breakdown to the big room (between the two swim sections)?

I didn't go caving but did get on rope with some other cavers at DeSoto Falls near Mentone, Alabama at the Dogwood City Grotto picnic.

I learned that if you haven't used your ropewalker in 3 years the best place to ressurect it is not in water over your head under a small waterfall. Rigging onto a rope while floating in the water is not as easy as it sound. Took me forever to get on rope correctly every thing kept getting tangled. I should have stuck with my frog

[graveleye]

I'm sorry we had to miss that picnic. I've been so busy I cant even get to know my own grotto..

[wendy]

This Gross Skeleton Cave sounds really cool. Some body take me sometime.

[JoeyS]

Slipped on some rocks in a dry creekbed and tried to arrest my fall with my hand. I have to wear a splint but i don't like it. It's my writing hand.

Bummer - I've seen several falls in TAG area streambeds. Those rocks sometimes look dry but they have that "slime" layer on them. Also remember to watch for snakes in those dry streambeds.

Gross Skeleton is one of my favorite caves. This time of the year the water does sometimes get a little stagnent in places. Did you guys climb up the breakdown to the big room (between the two swim sections)?

I didn't go caving but did get on rope with some other cavers at DeSoto Falls near Mentone, Alabama at the Dogwood City Grotto picnic.

I learned that if you haven't used your ropewalker in 3 years the best place to ressurect it is not in water over your head under a small waterfall. Rigging onto a rope while floating in the water is not as easy as it sound. Took me forever to get on rope correctly every thing kept getting tangled. I should have stuck with my frog

No we didn't go up the the breakdown to the big room. We got a really late start because we had some trouble finding the cave and didn't get in until 3 PM. Did I miss some good stuff?

[Hatch]

Gross Skeleton is one of my favorite caves. This time of the year the water does sometimes get a little stagnent in places. Did you guys climb up the breakdown to the big room (between the two swim sections)?

By the time we got to the breakdown that led up to the big room, we had been hiking around the valley and streambed and the cave for about 5 hours. We took a vote and skipped the big room this time since our guide said it would take an hour or two to fully explore the passage up that way.

We'll be going back later this year or next year, so we'll check that out then. It's probably a good thing, since by the time I got back to the house at 10pm my legs were cramping badly and my right hamstring was locked up so bad I had to hobble into the house. Doing all that rock-hopping in the streambed really worked the entire set of leg muscles. Even my adductor muscles are worn out.

[Grandpa Caver]

It's probably a good thing, since by the time I got back to the house at 10pm my legs were cramping badly and my right hamstring was locked up so bad I had to hobble into the house. Doing all that rock-hopping in the streambed really worked the entire set of leg muscles. Even my adductor muscles are worn out.

There's a cure for that...MORE CAVING!

BL