Just wanted to make a quick note about our recent survey efforts in Kentucky's Webster Cave System (Breckinridge County). For the past several months, there has been a flurry of activity in the main cave. Serious exploration has been ongoing there since the early 1980s' but only recently have systematic efforts started to survey there.
To the uninitiated, Webster Cave is characterized by large (read very large) borehole. Lakes punctuate the three miles of main passage, many of which are very long and deep.
The condition's aren't always so warm and fuzzy, however. Miles of side leads, some of which lead to even greater expanses of unexplored areas, are not much fun!
Currently we have about 16,500 feet surveyed, collated over about 14 trips. The maps are slowly beginning to be drawn, and all indications are it is going to be a beautiful project when it is all completed. Below is a section of an early draft of the map, at 1:50:
We welcome all cavers to this project. It has been a worldwide effort so far with cavers from as far as Europe participating. If you're interested in joining the survey, give me a holler or check the WCCSG site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WCCSG/
Our next scheduled monthly trip is SEPT 17 (though there may be an interim trip on SEPT 11).
Additional images of the system can be seen at
http://www.pbase.com/darklightimagery/w ... em_imagery
http://www.pbase.com/darklightimagery/mulu_conquest
CG
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