Second Trip, 31 January 1987 a continuing story on a Tennessee Cave exploring
We have the following teams in our survey: John Huggins, Bill Luchring, Jack Pace and Jeffrey Smith.
We started climbing at the point where Roger and John found the ring road on the last trip. , Finding that the passage continues in the southeast and with mines and a large hall in the cave is very high, we called this The Upper Room. It was a walk leads to the back and arun down, which was pushed by Jack and Buddy, it would be 1995 before we would have this card!
On the way back down, we mapped a high pass found going in a northwesterly direction through the best band room, so far in the cave. One place behind several large columns continued about 100 meters with soda straws covering the ceiling. The length of the cave was now 3729 feet long.
A nice treat at the end of every trip to this cave was a catfish dinner just down the road that we would changeClothing and only go the mile to the restaurant! They have large ponds, where they on the catfish. The ponds are water feeds from other caves.
Third trip, 20 February. 1988
Buddy Davis, Mark Gramlich, Roger Garratt and myself in the southeastern end of the cave slide since the mapping specified as the best way for the cave to continue. We took the dinghy to try and avoid, so wet stream in the entrance passage. We in paddedto the dry area on the first room with the two pillars and rocks the raft inflated. We could not quite on both sides of the passage at the same time, it was difficult to push our way up the stream. brushed Near the end of the deepest section of the raft against the sharp rocks and began to leak air. On the way back from there was useless, we gave up the raft idea and just decided it hard on future trips. They are only in the water for the first and last 20 minutes of each journeyand if you to the pages in the flat area you will get wet only up to a crouch, slip or step into the middle and your wet to keep the hips!
When you reach Davis were pit, the pit with the current number of leads to a review to navigate. A hole just before the pit on the floor and cause a short passage from flowing with the stream under a rock wall ended. Down-stream was blocked on the edge of the box. Finding no easy way around the pit, bordered Buddy on his way out of the slopingSims, who went around the right side of the pit a steep embankment and over a lip showed that on the left side went down to the stream that flowed across Davis Pit. That was very dangerous and on future trips, we brought rope to use as a safety line to keep the falling Form 10-foot pit. This current was much smaller than that flowing from the cave and the passage ended briefly with water dripping from the ceiling. We returned in 1993 to a 300-foot map page passage from thisstream passage.
Back in the Davis Pit we went right into a corridor with continued easy to walk about 200 meters to the top of a large room with rock slides, a good size stream. We decided that we should return to the main current level and asked how many caves we had to pass.
From this room was left a large, low room with crystals on the walls and floor, we called it the plaster room. After a brief investigation, we have decided to save it for anotherJourney. This turned to be mapped with 4343 meters, and many will wait to review a large cave.
Fourth trip, 26 March 1988
John Wallace was with us back because he was not to make the previous trip. I had John been with from the 70s, make cave exploration we look at one of the Dogwood City Grotto meeting in Atlanta. I had the cave after a trip to Alabama, where we half-day wasted one in search of a cave that I do not think was contacted. However, thatstirred up a new interest in caving and I wanted to see more wild caves. I rushed over with John every month for nearly 20 years before he was killed in a car accident unfortunate. John encouraged me to continue my cave map programming that one gift that he encouraged everyone he came into contact with, to work hard, do what they like.
Before the descent of the landslide, we mapped the large room on the left and found large paw marks on the mud walls in quantities offour as if a large animal was caught.
lead on the back of a page from this room, gave John a crawl with sticks and surface residue. This is John's Push on the map and could later for a possible connection to a famous cave on the side of the hill that we Speleology be checked
Return to the rock fall, we mapped down to the creek flows under a rock ledge. At the southern end of the room was a small pool with several small fish. It does not appear to be blind,as they would try to hide from the light behind the boots. The passage continues to the southeast, we took the upper level of the survey and followed Roger stay in the lower passage.
Blood passage was allowed for several red structure in the middle of this long, narrow passage. The lower level proved to be foot size dry stream bed. Once again we reached a junction, shown on the left lead to a low crawl, and returned to verify that the right result, continued for another trip.The survey was 5910 meters and the cave was still! There are some very long caves in the southeast, but most are under a mile long caves, we were very excited about a mile from cave to be explored and still excited.
On the way out buddy and I checked a lead down between the pit and the collapse. These lead to the stream with a possible connection and a good LED Walking up stream.
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