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Anonymous Sat 06 Jul 2013 21:36:59 No.155014 View View Reply Original Report

Any of you /out/ies into caving?

I went on a few caving trips with a some friends over the past year and I'm really starting to like it. I've only done some well known horizontal caves in N. GA so far. We plan on making another trip pretty soon. I normally hang out in CO, and I'm planning on getting more into caving as something to do in the off season of skiing. I will probably check out a local caving club and eventually get some equipment to do vertical caves.

Please share any stories advice or caves that would be worth visiting.

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jul 2013 21:39:49 No.155015 Report

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jul 2013 23:13:27 No.155059 Report

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jul 2013 23:38:47 No.155065 Report

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I do a lot of caving in the TAG region and live on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. Do you have a copy of any of the cave surveys out west? Perhaps we can do some trading.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 02:50:29 No.155132 Report

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>>155065
>Do you have a copy of any of the cave surveys out west? Perhaps we can do some trading.

No, sorry. I haven't joined a grotto out there yet. I'm fairly new to it.

The trip me and a few friends are planning on making soon is to Pigeon Mt. WMA near LaFayette, GA. If you have any info on locations and/or maps some of the horizontal caves in that area (or any others in that part of the state), I'd greatly appreciate it.

I already have very detailed maps of Pettijohns, but I don't have any maps for any of the others there. I've been in the entrance of Anderson Springs, but I don't have a map of it (I'll probably make a trip into it if it isn't raining anyway).

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 03:45:05 No.155147 Report

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Maps are pretty pointless. They are usually hard to read and don't usually represent the true nature of the cave. How can you explain 20k ft of passage on a sheet of notebook paper. Check out Ellison's Cave on PM. Avoid the drops and you can still do some really cool horizontal stuff. Anderson Spring Cave is cool too but def avoid when raining. Join the SCCi. They have tons of caves in the region and worth it. The NSS isn't relevant anymore and won't help you to go caving. Check out Limrock Blowing. Are you going to KOR next weekend, Sewanne Cave Fest for Labor Day, or TAG for Columbus Day?

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 04:45:05 No.155177 Report

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>>155147

thanks

>SCCi

I would join it, but I live in CO, I'm just been visiting GA this summer.

I'll def consider checking out Ellisons.

I've had decent luck with the detailed maps I've found of Pettijohns, but i am a good map reader in general. The 'normal' maps I've used of larger caves have indeed been shit. They need to have a lot of detail to be useful IMO. (or a map of a small cave)

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 04:51:49 No.155181 Report

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>>155147
>KOR next weekend
>KOR

what's that?

I prolly will be going caving next weekend...

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 11:38:27 No.155272 Report

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>went caving once
>only guy not fucking scared shitless
>literally pulling people out by myself
>mfw, my best friend in other group gets stuck behind fatty

still, was fun though.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 17:15:18 No.155462 Report

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KOR is the KY Karst-O-Rama.
TAG is the TN AL GA Fall Cave-In
They are caver get togethers where you can meet lots of other cavers and make connections for future trips and attend led trips.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 18:59:26 No.155592 Report

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No way. Seriously claustrophobic, buried alive scaredy cat. Also Ted's Cave.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 19:43:58 No.155635 Report

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most of the natural caves around here are tourist traps but lucky for us the brick and glass companies didn't do a good job of sealing thier old mines.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 20:38:45 No.155667 Report

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>>155014
UHHH ACHTUALLY IT'S CALLED SPELUNKING

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jul 2013 20:53:04 No.155674 Report

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>>155147

Maps are quite useful, especially in more complex maze caves. Ive done some survey work in a cave in Texas, current survey i think is over 5km. The original map of the cave, despite being not that accurate, is enough to navigate the maze of passages pretty well. The new survey is quite nice, and ive done some of the drafting of it for my own research purposes. The final map, when its drafted by someone who properly knows how to draft a map, will be quite impressive.

>>155667

If you call a bunch of people who go into caves regularly spelunkers instead of cavers, they will likely never speak with you again. Has a very negative connotation, of people who go in to caves, and fuck shit up, and cause land owners to heavily secure the entrances to their caves and not let anyone in ever again.

But yeah. In general, don't trespass, and find other people to go with. Once you get into a good caving community, people will take you to the really cool, hard to get into kind of places.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jul 2013 04:43:06 No.155969 Report

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jul 2013 19:39:12 No.156288 Report

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Anonymous Wed 10 Jul 2013 22:27:13 No.157610 Report

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>>155592

>ted's cave

This. Fuck the goblin thing, just the claustrophobia scared me shitless.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Jul 2013 23:20:23 No.158236 Report

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>>157610

I ran into a cave goblin once (for realz, it was super creepy yo). I broke one light, lost another, and then the cave goblin stole my final one, leaving me to die. Luckily, I had an e-sig with hash oil in it and I was able to use the light from the e-sig to navigate out of the cave.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jul 2013 04:20:07 No.158427 Report

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>>156288
>Dark and muddy
>Dark

It's a cave. Doesn't that go without saying..?

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jul 2013 21:21:04 No.158876 Report

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>>158427

You have too much faith in people.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2013 01:49:59 No.159111 Report

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>>155065
This reminds me of Climax cave (giggedy) you pretty much have to cross a point just like this to get through.

>>155462
Never heard of KOR, makes sense we'd have our own group with all the caves around here. Are they pretty accepting of noobies? I've only caved a few times, but love it.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2013 03:03:37 No.159170 Report

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>>159111
>Climax cave

Is that in South GA? What's it like? I've heard it's like over 5 miles long. How accessible is it?

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2013 04:22:41 No.159222 Report

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Any cavers in connecticut? We only have a single cave here but new York has many good ones.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2013 04:53:30 No.159237 Report

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>>155014
Unfortunately CO is about the worst place to be a caver right now. Three years ago the USFS closed all caves on National Forest land in Colorado because of paranoia about White Nose Syndrome. There are only a handful of caves that are on BLM or private land that are still accessible.

The current closure expires on Aug. 1, but they renewed the closures on the last day for the last day in 2011 and 2012, so I doubt this year will be any different.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2013 05:45:50 No.159261 Report

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I know. It's total BS too. Most of the caves have little - no bat population, especially some of the really cool maze caves in CO. The closure is literally the USFS being over-regulatory cunts for the sake of being over-regulatory cunts (gotta keep up that shitty reputation they've got I guess). I also wouldn't be surprised if they also faced political pressure from enviro-nazis in CO. Basically every time somebody wants to make a trail or do anything in FS property really, these huge groups of non-outdoor hippie types pile in and loudly state that no one should be allowed to touch, see, or even travel near the more interesting places. They think that all NF land should be wilderness and as many things as possible should be totally banned, including hiking and camping (hurrrr, distubs teh enviro-mit). I haven't been to any meetings about caves in CO, but I can just imagine these same people going bat-shit insane about the fact that people were allowed in any caves ever, and then pressure for people to be banned from ever seeing caves in any way for any lame excuse possible.

I don't believe white-nose has even been spotted in CO yet. Plus, white-nose isn't known to be spread by people.

It seems to me that white-nose is just a lame excuse that's being used by asshats to try to destroy something they don't understand (and/or fear).

>tl;dr: fuck the USFS, fuck retard hippies to

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2013 09:09:19 No.159334 Report

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Does anyone know where i can get a map of Ellison's Cave? (in Pigeon Mt., GA)

I want to check out some of the horizontal stuff in it like this guy suggests: >>155147

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jul 2013 10:42:48 No.159358 Report

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KY, not too long, and pretty accessible. Can't remember how you get in, but I think it's public land. I remember a church near ots entrance would let us park there to hike up to it about a mile away.

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