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Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby 2.0 » May 15, 2011 8:10 pm

BREAKING NEWS! On Saturday May 14th Dave Everton and the Indiana Speleological Survey (as featured in NSS News in Feb and March 2011) established and surveyed a connection between Guy Stover Pit cave and Binkley cave near Corydon Indiana (via a 200' tight muddy miserable waterfilled low airspace bellycrawl). This adds roughly a mile to Binkley, which is now over 26 miles in total surveyed passage. What may be more important is much quicker (although not necessarily easier) access to the furthest reaches of Binkley, which previously was an 8 hour round trip not including time spent working leads or survey. Now that this area of Binkley is more accessable, the long sought after connection to nearby Blowing Hole cave may be one step closer to reality. The official trip report is not yet out, but will be posted to the ISS page which can be found here: http://mypage.iu.edu/~deverton/Binkley/binkley.htm :grin:
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Re: Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby MUD » May 15, 2011 8:44 pm

:clap: Keep pushin, that Blowing Hole connection is waiting! :woohoo:

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Re: Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby self-deleted_user » May 15, 2011 8:52 pm

OH YES WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

CONGRATS TO THE TEAM!!!! *HIGH FIVES*

Now I am sadder I have not gotten my arse down there yet for those trips, haha. I follow the Binkly and Guy Stover reports though via Dave every week!

OMG I am so excited for you all! :D :D :D :D :D :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
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Re: Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby LWMM » May 15, 2011 11:32 pm

So how much farther until you connect it to Mammoth? :big grin:


But congrats, and thanks for the link to the maps; looks like a lot of fun!
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Re: Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby JR-Orion » May 16, 2011 2:53 pm

Wow, congrats!

I've read the book and thought it was a real page turner-
http://nssbookstore.org/index.php?mode= ... er=01-0642
Nice to see that exploration is still going strong.
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Re: Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby wyandottecaver » May 16, 2011 6:51 pm

Amy,

Joy was on the connection trip.....
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Re: Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby 2.0 » May 16, 2011 7:23 pm

Joy also had a quite memorable experience which involved a big gulp of water in about 4 inches of airspace. Glad that in this case, all's well that ends well! The passage is now referred to as "Joy's Gulp"
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Re: Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby self-deleted_user » May 16, 2011 7:53 pm

LOL yeah I heard about that - I've caved with her a few times and we're friends on fb, she mentioned it xD aww poor Joy. She has a collection of great cave stories though, I love talking to her!

<3 you all! I'm so excited for you!!!!!!!!!!! I really do need to get my arse down there and learn how to survey some weekend. Joy needs to tell me when she's going so I can carpool down with her! Anyone from Elkhart area going I can make it there to carpool down. Maybe weekend after Speleofest before SERA or something...ah I should email Dave. Unless you are he. I dunno who "2.0" is haha. Although I read in the report it's more laying in cold water surveying...which no wetsuit so I can't help with that.

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Re: Indiana's longest cave now roughly one mile longer!

Postby caveflower » May 18, 2011 1:06 pm

This little cave is a butt whooper. It makes you work hard for every inch of it. We were only a few hundred feet from all the action starting a clean up of the pit. Trying to make the entrance a little safer. I bet it was nice not having a bone and trash shower on the way out. I can't beleive how many bones and glass is in there. We had left to head home and we got the call from Tim, You should have seen my happy dance. :banana: :banana_yay: :banana: :banana_yay: :banana: :banana_yay:
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