OK so who's been caving?

[graveleye]

I just did a local cave Monday evening
http://www.my-mania.com/caving/spanishmoss.html

Going to do a couple more caves on Saturday.



Jeff

Thats looks like a really cool cave Jeff, bet that was a lot of fun...


so Ralph, when you going to crack that blowing hole?

[ian mckenzie]

Two weeks ago I was on Vancouver Island on a helicopter trip to the White Ridge (not much accomplished there tho). Tomorrow I'm off on a week-long heli trip to central British Columbia. On the September long w/e I'm joining others on a three-day cave camp in the south (Cdn) Rockies.

[rchrds]

Ice caves!

Here is a pic of an ice cave (or small arch, I suppose) at the base of the Eiger in Switzerland that we visited two weeks ago. Luckily, that was not the last caving we have done.


J

[rchrds]

Okay- here is some more recent caving- in Clarksville, no less!

haha!




J

[barcelonacvr]

Two weeks ago I was on Vancouver Island on a helicopter trip to the White Ridge (not much accomplished there tho). Tomorrow I'm off on a week-long heli trip to central British Columbia. On the September long w/e I'm joining others on a three-day cave camp in the south (Cdn) Rockies.

Take me in spirit would you!!! :) Have fun and BTW you have mail.

[barcelonacvr]

I am just getting over a DVT and a pulmonary embolism so I have been slow ,but I am still getting out.They will have to drag me out in a box before I stop heading into the underworld. Yesterday we went for a foray.


A Nice mine in the Madawaskan Highlands Northern Ontario .I am fortunate my caving partner is a gemologist as it makes for interesting mine tours.

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3221231


A Marble river cave we just started to survey


http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3221226


http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3221218


http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3221213


My caving partners blog with a good description of the cave and various forays we find ourselves on.

http://rockwatching.wordpress.com/

[JoeyS]

I went on the same trip Eve went on, Wenesday night (Swirl Canyon in Davidson Co., TN).
Going to Gross Skeleton Cave in Jackson Co., AL tomorrow.

[Evan G]

eramosakarst wrote:

I am just getting over a DVT and a pulmonary embolism so I have been slow

Those are similar to the signs of being at high altitude, been on any tall peaks lately?

[graveleye]

I went on the same trip Eve went on, Wenesday night (Swirl Canyon in Davidson Co., TN).
Going to Gross Skeleton Cave in Jackson Co., AL tomorrow.

hopefully that dead "thing" will have washed out by the time you get into Gross Skeleton... it apparently wasnt a skeleton yet, but it was gross though.

[JoeyS]

I went on the same trip Eve went on, Wenesday night (Swirl Canyon in Davidson Co., TN).
Going to Gross Skeleton Cave in Jackson Co., AL tomorrow.

hopefully that dead "thing" will have washed out by the time you get into Gross Skeleton... it apparently wasnt a skeleton yet, but it was gross though.

Someone on TAGnet encountered the same carcass. Maybe it will be in the swim section and I can use it to float my pack

[Ralph E. Powers]

so Ralph, when you going to crack that blowing hole?

Well, I'm going to be moving back east within a few days, just waiting for transport right now. Computer and clothes (AND caving gear ... for those last second spur of the moment trips) are the only things not packed.
The guys that were with me when we discovered the "possiblity" are going to have to take the initative. Good guys both of them and so they'll follow through with it. I'm just going to have to read about it in their e-mails AIM's and (hopefully) trip-reports on our grotto websites. They're excited enough so they should follow through with preleminary digs/rock expansions before summer is out. The window is closing rapidly on that mountian. Winter is coming.

[barcelonacvr]

eramosakarst wrote:

I am just getting over a DVT and a pulmonary embolism so I have been slow

Those are similar to the signs of being at high altitude, been on any tall peaks lately?

I wish that was the reason.In a nutshell, I fractured my ankle ( during a house move) sometimes DVT happens then. I told my doc but he seemed to not take it seriously and went on a holiday.While he was away it got worse so I finally was diagnosed and then treated for it by a surgeon I managed to plead with to get treatment .

Unfortunately again my doc did not pay attention to the fact that I was not approaching therapeutic blood thinner levels despite getting 2 weeks worth of tests back.Due to the low thinner level I developed the Embolism..fun WOW and pleurisy just to make it a trifecta.I am now being tracked by a specialist NOT my doc.I am already dealing with work injury problems and now this!!

Damn health getting in the way of caving ..grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I know the high altitude symptoms well as I was offered work In the Urals doing the mechanical for a gold mine.A LOT of the initial guys came back messed up from the altitude so I declined the contract.I guess I should have went seeing as I ended up getting it anyhow I missed 160k tax free a year!!

[Lost]

We dove to the end of the Wonder Tunnel 4 Aug 2006. 56min @ 93' 32% w/ 16 min Deco. We ran primary reel @ eye and 2 jump reels one @ Bone Room double line arrows and the other @ Wonder Tunnel double line arrows. We saw a blind crayfish in the room @ the end of the tunnel. We turned before we reached 1/3s just because we ....

well we .....

reached the end of the line.

A freind of mine with way more cave dives then me said to go to the next tunnel up the gold line after the bone room double line arrows to the Wonder tunnel jump less flow

No matter what way we went it was my all time best dive

[JoeyS]

Well we had a great trip to Gross Skeleton Cave (Jackson Co, AL) yesterday despite it taking about three hours to find the upstream entrance. We accidentally found a second cave upstream from G.S. that we explored a few hundred feet. Met some great folks from the Birmingham Grotto (Lee, Jerry and Gary) too. I managed to break my index finger while walking the dry creek bed looking for the Cave. My first caving-related fracture. Course, that didn't hinder my cave trip other than the throbbing and swelling. No dead animals but the water does smell awful in some places, due to the gases produced by decaying, stagnant vegetation I suppose.
This was my first swim-cave and it was quite different than the caves I've explored previously in TAG, in that I don't have any mud to clean off my gear this time.
Gary brought along some smoked salmon he caught in Alaska, cheese and a bottle of Merlot we feasted on after exiting the cave.

Today I/m typing with my 9 good fingers and keeping the ice on my booger-picker.

[Robert Sewell]

I am just getting over a DVT and a pulmonary embolism ...

Been there and done the DVT thing. Mine was caused by too much Calculus homework at an advanced age. (Long story)

I don't know about the PE, but the good news about the DVT is once you've recovered it most likely won't limit, much less stop, your caving. Just keep taking the daily aspirin (or whatever).