Virginia girl survives cave ordeal

[Wayne Harrison]

Emily Bacon, of Ashburn, went into Glade Cave near Mount Solon in Augusta County as any Girl Scout should go anywhere - prepared.

She had been thoroughly indoctrinated into the proper way to explore a cave by experienced cavers.

She was wearing all the certified and compulsory equipment.


She was going into a cave that had been mapped and explored by hundreds.

Then Emily slipped, and the excursion became not one of exploration, but one of rescue.

By the time the 13-year-old was extracted from between two boulders 90 minutes later, she had learned that tingling and numbness from an arm and a leg going to sleep becomes pain.

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Emily learned that the cold of a cave, even in August, will penetrate several layers of clothing. The average temperature in Glade Cave is 50 degrees.

Finally, Emily learned that heroes can be found anywhere, even in a tiny town southwest of Harrisonburg.

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[wendy]

at least she has a good attitude about it

[Scott McCrea]

Geez, that's the second publicized rescue at Glade Cave in the last week or so. I don't know how often there are rescues there, but I hope this doesn't do anything to jeopardize access. Glade is a very popular Scout/camp/youth group cave. Cavers even go there sometimes.

[Scott McCrea]

Hmm, upon further investigation, this rescue seems to be the same one previously reported here two weeks ago. Slow news day I guess.

[Wayne Harrison]

You heard it here first...

... and second.