by sscheinfe » Oct 16, 2012 3:14 pm
This is a bit off topic, but...I have been trying to find a few caves my teacher took me to in 7th grade.
They were in the general vicinity of New Paltz, NY...
One of them, we pulled off a main road into a filed of sorts which was sort of in someone's backyard. There was a hole in the ground with a wooden ladder, and about 8 feet down and we were in. It was partially flooded, and was kind of circular if I recall correctly...it was walkable for us 7th graders, just knee high water, with a few cravasses to crawl off the main loop.
The other one, we had to enter through a kind of crack and crawl down slowly...I don't remember more than that...
The third one was in a little valley near an old museum in someone's house...we walked to it, and it was sort of in the side of a hill...we walked until the beginning of high water, then walked back out...there were fall leaves everywhere, it was beautiful.
Some of it may have been near High Falls, NY or Rosendale, NY, all in the general vicinity of New Paltz. We drove through New Paltz then across some bridge and around a ridgeline near a river. This was 20 years ago, so not much more detail than that....
Any hints/leads would be great!!
-Sam