Re: Favorite Indiana Caves
Posted: Apr 12, 2009 4:54 pm
Interesting! I have heard that rumor a number of times over the years. I have been to Camp 4 a number of times but it's been a few years. We didn't really look that hard for anymore going passage but that was before we heard the continuing passage rumor. Also heard one story of another entrance back there but don't know. It seems as though some of the old timers(60's & 70's) liked their chemical persuasion quite a a bit.
Rumor? Hey now you young whipper-snapper, better watch it or Grandpa here will 'larn you a thing or two.... No rumor about it, fact. Plus believe it or not, beer was our only(main) vice back then, regardless of the BS some people may tell you about the 60's.
You don't happen to recall which newsletter do you? A time frame? I and a few others are curious to read about the report!
Windy City Grotto Newsletter, Richard Blenz, Jerry Estes, Denny Fox, myself and a few others were mapping, using a transmitter of Dicks that could be followed by those above ground (did not work too well as I recall) We had been in a long while (two days?) and were getting due to come out. Either Fox and I or Estes and I cut to the right (Going in) on an upper level, cut under a break-down pile or boulder and there it was, fairly circular in shape and about 4-5' high, very damp floors and walls. Blenz was yelling (grumpy old ^%^&*) about getting out on time so we had to cut and run (run? yea right, after a long time in Wayne, no one ran) more like drag ourselves out.
Was the same year as a double rescue in Waynes and Salamander, around 1960 or so, as I recall, a year or two after Dick bought the Buckner property ("Buckner Hotel" was still there).
I think the year before we dug out Queen Blair entrance and almost drowned (ANOTHER interesting story)
Remember it like it was just yesterday...........when carbide lamps were king......
P.S. Is Blenz still kicking?