Weeknight Caving - Trip Report !

[L Roebuck]

Last night , July 26, was the perfect time for a weeknight cave trip. The main purpose of the trip to take Lauren on her very 'first' caving trip. Due to time restraints the cave we chose was Harrison Saltpetre Cave. Harrison is a local party cave which receives many visitors, some of which leave behind beer bottles, fireworks, graffiti, etc, but the cave a fine example of why groundwater and conserving cave's is important.

We geared up and after entering the cave we headed slowly through the main walking main passage and viewed the few formation areas until Lauren got her cave legs. Most caver's know the moment a beginner caver gets their cave legs since the transformation from wobbly to confident strolling is amazing and continues from that point on. Cavers who break-in beginners would be wise to pay close attention because it is always an amazing transformation! It was in that instant that Lauren transformed into a caver and loved every minute underground! So next was some bear walking, stoop walking, hands and knees crawl, squeezes, negotiating a climbdown and of course sliding in the mud. It was at the climbdown that Lauren took over as cave trip leader on the remainder of the trip and led the party out of the cave.

Here are a few caving trip photo's:

[Sharon Faulkner]

Sounds like a fun trip guys! Thanks for sharing photos.

[tncaveres]

Cool!
I am fixing to head to a cave that is near Normandy. Well almost. ;D
I have heard about this cave for the last couple of years but never been in.
Today is the day.
I will let yall know how it goes !!!

[L Roebuck]

Have Fun!

I hope you aren't disappointed because that cave is a small cave.
Still worth at least one trip to see it and say......"Been there, Done that"!

[tncaveres]

pretzlgirl said:

Have Fun!

I hope you aren't disappointed because that cave is a small cave.
Still worth at least one trip to see it and say......"Been there, Done that"!

That it was. I was dissapointed but like you said . Now I can mark it off as another cave done.
Do you know the name of that cave?

We ended up going to 3 caves saturday.
Lynn you might know the second cave we went too . [ Moderated to remove cave location. ] It has about a 3' tall opening that is about 20' wide. Once you get in it opens up BIG time. It only goes for a couple hundred ft though.
I have been there before but my caving partner had not so we went & took a look.
Do you know the name of that one?

Next one we went too was a well known one named B-cave.
There was already a couple of cavers there .
Bull Snook was the group leader there.
Never seen them while in there but seen where he had signed the register in the cave.

We only did the old portion of the cave.
We did 3 caves in 2 hrs & 15 mins

Sorry this was a little long.

[L Roebuck]

Thanks for the PM's tncaveres! Also that second cave has a chattanooga shale layer near the bottom of the cave. creepy!

[tncaveres]

Yeah there is alot of digging in that cave

I am going to a cave in coffee county either fri or mon.
I will pm you to see if you know the name of it.

[L Roebuck]

It has been modified so we suspect it may have been mined for saltpetre long ago.

Ekkk! .... cave digging in a layer of Chattanooga shale?

[tncaveres]

Yeah EKK