Digs

[jonsdigs]

Any good digs going or good digging stories?

Jon Barker
28435RE

[ian mckenzie]

There are no 'good' digs.

[ian mckenzie]

Just kidding of course. We've alot of caves here that have been extended by digging. But I'm not a very good storyteller.

[Scott McCrea]

I have several diggs waiting for us to return. Since I started having kids, the dig trips have become rare. If anyone wants to come to NE TN to help, maybe that will motivate me get back at them. One dig has potential to connect to Mammoth and Lech!

[jonsdigs]

Yeah, we're working on that one too.

Here's a story I wrote as a eulogy for one of our late members, Walt Rubeck.

Eulogy for Walt

“You wouldn’t believe…!â€

[ian mckenzie]

A Canadian dig...
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[cob]

But now with methods that he taught
The moving-more-is-faster thought
He all our fellowship beyond bought
We’ll remember Walt

-Jon Barker
28435RE

wish I had met him....

[Squirrel Girl]

A Canadian dig...

Hardy, hardy, hardy, har, har, har........

I 'spose you use a blowtorch for digging, too, eh?

8)

[Scott McCrea]

I've used a blowtorch to dig before. Works pretty good. If you just need to shave a little bit off an odd angle spot, just heat it with the torch and smash it with a hammer and it shatters off about a 1/4 inch or so.

[ian mckenzie]

Hardy, hardy, hardy, har, har, har........

Well it is a 'dig' into the entrance of a 500m deep cave.

[jonsdigs]

Who, what, when, where, and how?

[Squirrel Girl]

Well it is a 'dig' into the entrance of a 500m deep cave.

Dang! And I suppose the water is about 1 degree?

[ian mckenzie]

Who, what, when, where, and how?

Members of the Alberta Speleological Society, primarily Jason Morgan (in the pic), have been working on Heavy Breather, which has now been bottomed but awaits full surveying. The pic is from last spring, an impatient snow-dig into the entrance which subsequently enlarged from the draught. The most recent trip (a month ago) was turned back by weather/snow so surveying the bottom will have to wait until next year. The cave has 30 pitches and some are quite wet in spring; and yes the water is cold...

Hopefully the full story will appear in an upcoming Canadian Caver.

[Phil Winkler]

Ian,

Is Paul Hadfield in your neck of the woods and still active? I knew him in Europe 30 odd years ago.

[ian mckenzie]

Funny you should mention Paul; I've just re-established contact with him after his e-mail address went dead some time ago. I'll PM you with his new contact info.