08.15.2011

County Fair
Rockingham County Fair Day 1
Molly Hinegardner, 4, tries to get 3-month-old Sophia, a Jersey-Holstein mixed calf, to drink some water at the Rockingham County Fair Monday evening. She is the daughter of Rachel Hinegardner of Edom.
(Nikki Fox/Daily News-Record)

04.02.2011

SEC
Chris and I led a sport trip in Shovel Eater Cave with Mike Broome and Lisa Lorenzin. I think it was their hardest vertical cave they’ve done. But I absolutely love this cave, it’s my favorite! Here are the two of them in the borehole above Germany Well (217 ft).

Below is Chris in the Acoustic Persistence Chamber.
SEC

SEC
Unfortunately, we ran into this little guy in the cave. An Eastern pip covered with White Nose (WNS). I sure hope he makes it to the summer, he’s got a few more weeks to go for the bugs to come out!!

03.05.2011

Billy Clay Cave
Shannon Gilligan, the Madison University Student Grotto president, in a highly decoatrated formation area in the lower level of Billy Clay Cave in Pocahontas County, W.Va.

Notice the little pipistrelle bat in the photo? He he is close up, unfazed by our presence.
Billy Clay Cave

01.29.2011

Cassell Cave
Doing a Cassell Cave trip with Brian Young and Meghan Moss. We had done the trip three years ago when I was sick and we weren’t leading. We were now on a mission to learn the thru trip — from Ody’s Pit to the Windy Entrance. It took us 13 hours, but we did it!

Cassell Cave
Here Meghan Moss rappels from a small window into a room.

Cassell Cave
And we saw this interesting little guy in the stream passage.

08.07.2010

Sawmill Well
Chris and I visited TAG, with our good friend Aaron Moses. Here is the view from the bottom of the 155-foot open-air pit named Sawmill Well.

Solution Rift
After bouncing the pit a couple of times, we did the pull-down trip in Solution Rift. Rappels (in order) are: 24, 18, 30, 23, 167 (Confederate Well), 31 and 36 feet.

We saw a bunch of cave critters!!!
Solution Rift