Post by etzkorn on Sept 18, 2007 16:15:10 GMT -5
Greetings from the Cave of a House also known as Bruce Goff's Castle where the windows besides the mass of 600 tons of rock are an architectural delight. ]http://brucegoff-castle-bandb.com
The Castle use to be directly accessing of a cave run which led to the National Landmark cave called Rich's cave located nearly a half mile down from the mountaintop noting a sizeable bat colony and Daniel's Boones signiture on the walls from before the turning of time into the 1800's. I have traveled the route from the cave opening (12 years ago) below to the backyard exit next to the castle. Also heard of a recent trip that exited another mile south by some high school teachers and students. Was on that run before the dummy sister decided to get on the right track to the castle. Besides the sizeable room where the bats hang out there are several other places to hang about and no we did not discover where Daniel Boone stashed his gold. Unlike the Cobden Cave this system requires no squirming close - belly crawling on the ground but consisting mostly of sliping between the cracks of the mountain walls and some steping over blocks. Anyways, about two years ago a team of cave mappers did thier task in both the Cobden and Rich's Cave and due to the loss of email and a solid computer crash I lost my emails with them. When exploring the Rich's cave they did not locate the bat cave exit to the mountain runs when I last spoke to them, but they were suppose to return for more exploring and had permission to enter in the winter from the national forestry that now owns and protects the system. They also explored my entries up on this property but at the time due to all the rain during the last 10 years my entry was plugged with soil. Drats the subject they teased me with that they had characters who like digging such a thing open. This winter during the big freeze the cave opening here was bellowing out out a lot of steam so I am wondering if the opening has again returned to being open again. Again during my trip to the top another opening lays somewhere I suspect on the property in as much as my sister stuck her head out before getting closer to the castle. I felt relieved after listening to her jive for several hours that she thought she remembered how to get out after a ten year previous journey.[
Other parts of the mountain are moving soil and its been a yearly trip with the dog during a good drenching as she gets in the water in a large crack in the soil and gets close to being sucked in and though she is preety smart and savy on the rocks I wonder a bit if the day will come I will have to go see if the storm spits her out the opening down below. Surely hope though I would not have to listen to her whining on the otherside of the basement walls.
I think the mappers were doing some of the work out of the University of Illinois (urbana campus) and that may be where the maps are located. They surely didn't make to much of an effort to keep me informed but I liked the examples of their previous work in the state.
The Castle use to be directly accessing of a cave run which led to the National Landmark cave called Rich's cave located nearly a half mile down from the mountaintop noting a sizeable bat colony and Daniel's Boones signiture on the walls from before the turning of time into the 1800's. I have traveled the route from the cave opening (12 years ago) below to the backyard exit next to the castle. Also heard of a recent trip that exited another mile south by some high school teachers and students. Was on that run before the dummy sister decided to get on the right track to the castle. Besides the sizeable room where the bats hang out there are several other places to hang about and no we did not discover where Daniel Boone stashed his gold. Unlike the Cobden Cave this system requires no squirming close - belly crawling on the ground but consisting mostly of sliping between the cracks of the mountain walls and some steping over blocks. Anyways, about two years ago a team of cave mappers did thier task in both the Cobden and Rich's Cave and due to the loss of email and a solid computer crash I lost my emails with them. When exploring the Rich's cave they did not locate the bat cave exit to the mountain runs when I last spoke to them, but they were suppose to return for more exploring and had permission to enter in the winter from the national forestry that now owns and protects the system. They also explored my entries up on this property but at the time due to all the rain during the last 10 years my entry was plugged with soil. Drats the subject they teased me with that they had characters who like digging such a thing open. This winter during the big freeze the cave opening here was bellowing out out a lot of steam so I am wondering if the opening has again returned to being open again. Again during my trip to the top another opening lays somewhere I suspect on the property in as much as my sister stuck her head out before getting closer to the castle. I felt relieved after listening to her jive for several hours that she thought she remembered how to get out after a ten year previous journey.[
Other parts of the mountain are moving soil and its been a yearly trip with the dog during a good drenching as she gets in the water in a large crack in the soil and gets close to being sucked in and though she is preety smart and savy on the rocks I wonder a bit if the day will come I will have to go see if the storm spits her out the opening down below. Surely hope though I would not have to listen to her whining on the otherside of the basement walls.
I think the mappers were doing some of the work out of the University of Illinois (urbana campus) and that may be where the maps are located. They surely didn't make to much of an effort to keep me informed but I liked the examples of their previous work in the state.