Category: Trips
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A True TAG Trip: Moses Tomb, Talley, Byers, Crownover Saltpeter, Sherwood Mountain Pot, Cagles Chasm
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By Bill Walker On 3-10-06, Adam Scherer and I drove up to TAG for a long weekend of caving. The most interesting aspect of the trip is that we had no plan for the trip. We didn’t know which caves we were going to do. We didn’t know where we…
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Jug Hole Tradition
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By Brian Williams Often times I am asked, “What is my favorite cave dive?” Usually the answer is the last safe dive I have returned from. But thinking back on all the dives in Florida, I would have to say one of my favorite spots is “Jug Hole” aka Blue…
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Stomping around Archer
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By Mike Gordon When Buford put out the notice that he intended to do a little stomping around the Archer cave area on Saturday I jumped at the chance to tag along. Buford grew up in that neck of the woods and is as familiar with the lay of the…
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A Day At Jennings
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By Cara L Gentry Photos By Simon Nielsen The rain was pouring down and I was frightened. It was my first night out on my own. I’d been kicked out of the home I had known since I was born. I was cold and wet and had no place to…
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Windy River Cave: A Frustrating Success
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By Brian Williams August 6, 2005: Windy River Cave, Van Buren County, Tennessee. Attempting to make a cave connection through a sump is difficult at best, but it’s even more difficult to find (coerce) the right cavers (anyone breathing ) to drag gear over a mile through cave passage alternating…
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Caving at White Cliff Cave
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By Kitty Markley 7/3/05 We finally got a celebrity into a cave. On Sun., July 3rd. Mike and I took local author Darlene Marshall to Whitecliff Cave. She had contacted the FSS in May and was interested in doing some research for her next romantic novel. The plot obviously involved…
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Archer Karst Trip Report
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Buford Pruitt, Jr. June 22, 2005 A week or so ago a friend called saying that she read about a lot for sale in newspaper classifieds that had the words, “cave on property.” She called me and, because it was in the Archer area and I knew that The Karst…
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Climax Sump Diving: To Hell Through Mud
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By Brian Williams Photos by Brian Williams, Cindy Butler The scene is 25 years ago. Three young cavers enter Climax Cave in South Georgia to check out the previously unexplored underwater passages and sumps. They carry single steel 72 cubic foot tanks, one regulator, some exploration line and a few…
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Warrens Ridge Dig
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By Buford Pruitt, Jr. June 16, 2005 A week or so ago, an old friend and work mate from the early 1970s named Brian Winchester contacted the FSS Board via the FSS website regarding a cave lead. He said it blew air and was close to Gainesville. Since I wanted…
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A Trip to Warren’s 4-17-05
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WARREN’S CAVE, ALACHUA COUNTY The trip into Warrens Cave last Sunday went very well. We all got to do pretty much what each of us wanted to do and no one got hurt. Wendy collected some loose trash from the Crossroads and made a list of the contents of the…