John 'n' W.Va
Active member
I didn't do serious MDing like I thought I was going to do in this cave. I was doing what I could to survive. It was a terrible thing to do to the Ace. Water is floating in the air and dripping off everything. I had the Ace's coat on with hand warmers tucked under it. The cave is 6 miles long, slippery, sharp jagged rocks, steep ledges and people have died here. I also found out there was no easy digging in this cave. I had to chip away at the soil.
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I had to do the crab walk through many parts of the cave, which was about to do fat boy in. The stream was cold and the bottom was still hard to dig.
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At the place called the "water course" there were pot holes that were over my head. I am standing by one with the water almost to the control box of my Ace. I got a good foil hit in one pot hole but it was too deep for me to retrieve. With the swift current I didn't see how foil could be setting in that hole.
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We found 3 people lost in the cave. They were on a ledge trying to cross a steep ravine. They said they were headed out of the cave. They were headed in the wrong direction. They were also ill equipped and didn't have much of a clue about caving. The one man didn't need a bowie knife and a revolver. They had a rope tied between them which was fine for mountain climbing, but not caving. When I go I go prepared. My buddy is the one who with 5 others mapped this cave. It has been mapped many times in the last hundred years that people have been coming into it.
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You are always excited to go into a cave but you are more excited to get out of the cave. I found lot of pull tabs, 2 cents and some can slaw. Why there were shredded cans I don't know. My legs and arms were wiped out. My buddy said lets go pick some blue berries. I said sure that sounds easy enough. It looked like an easy walk through a field.
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I didn't know he meant hike to the top of the mountain.
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I had to do the crab walk through many parts of the cave, which was about to do fat boy in. The stream was cold and the bottom was still hard to dig.
[attachment 63445 7-21-07MDcave.jpg]
At the place called the "water course" there were pot holes that were over my head. I am standing by one with the water almost to the control box of my Ace. I got a good foil hit in one pot hole but it was too deep for me to retrieve. With the swift current I didn't see how foil could be setting in that hole.
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We found 3 people lost in the cave. They were on a ledge trying to cross a steep ravine. They said they were headed out of the cave. They were headed in the wrong direction. They were also ill equipped and didn't have much of a clue about caving. The one man didn't need a bowie knife and a revolver. They had a rope tied between them which was fine for mountain climbing, but not caving. When I go I go prepared. My buddy is the one who with 5 others mapped this cave. It has been mapped many times in the last hundred years that people have been coming into it.
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You are always excited to go into a cave but you are more excited to get out of the cave. I found lot of pull tabs, 2 cents and some can slaw. Why there were shredded cans I don't know. My legs and arms were wiped out. My buddy said lets go pick some blue berries. I said sure that sounds easy enough. It looked like an easy walk through a field.
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I didn't know he meant hike to the top of the mountain.
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Going to post some of my wife's detector finds for you. She has an outstanding foreign coin collection that I'll post first, then her silver, and last her gold and silver rings - if I can find it all. She is like a pack rat and squirrels stuff away all over the house in pill bottles, paper cuyps, plastic boxes, you name it.
