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2 The Windy Ci ty Speleonews, March 2013 Vol . 53
GROTTO ELECTIONS
The annua l grot to elect ions will be he ld
at t he May meet ing on May 8. Nominat ions
wil l be t aken at t he Apr il meet ing, and wil l
be opened fo r each o ff ice ju st pr io r to t he
vo t ing. The fo llowing Board members wil l
be e lect ed:
The Chairperson runs the grot to and
board meet ings and conduct s grot to co rre-
spondence.
The Vice-Chairperson is respons ib le for
programs at t he grot to meet ings and runs
meet ings in t he Cha irperson’s absence.
The Secretary keeps minutes o f t he
grot to and board meet ings.
The Treasurer is respons ib le fo r grot to
f inances and co llect s dues.
The Board Member at Large se l ls T-
shir t s, st ickers and o ther it ems, and rounds
out a six-pack o f beer .
The Editor is appo int ed by the five
e lect ed board member s.
To run fo r grot to o ffice, you must be a
Regu lar member o f t he grot to , t hat is , an
NSS member (o r membership pend ing) . All
pa id-up grot to members (bo th Regular and
Assoc iat e) may vo te in t he e lect ions.
ON THE COVER
This issue features a report by Adam Hay-
dock on his recent t r ip to Puerto Rico . The
cover photo shows some o f t he he l ict it es and
soda st raws in Cueva Sorbetos. Photo by
Adam Haydock.
IN THIS ISSUE...
MEET INGS AND MEMBERSHIP - - 3
PUERTO R ICO : J ANU AR Y 16-22, 2013--
4-9
2012 WCG T REASURY REPORT- - 9
TRIP REPORTS - - Blowing Ho le and Waynes ; Su l-
l ivan’s Tr ip ; May’s and King
Leo .
10-14
GROTTO M INU TES - - 15-16
SPENT CARB IDE - - 16-17
WCG MEMBERSHIP L IST- - 18-19
THE W INDY C ITY SPELEONEWS
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Vol . 53 The Windy Ci ty Speleonews, March 2013 3
MEETINGS Meet ings o f t he Windy Cit y Gro t to o f the
Nat iona l Spe leo log ica l Soc iet y are he ld on
the second Wednesday o f ever y mo nth at 7:30
p.m. at Aurelio's Pizzeria, 1455 W. Lake St .
(US 20) , Add ison, IL 60101, phone (630) 889
-9560. It is next to (east o f) Marcus Cinema,
which is just east o f IL-53 (Rohlwing
Rd. ) . You wil l find it in t he Southwest
co rner o f Centennia l P laza shopp ing center ,
just past t he Marcus Cinema. Exit I -355, just
o ff o f I -290 (you need not pay a to ll) on Lake
St . Turn east ( le ft ) on Lake. The next t hree
meet ings wil l be March 13 , April 10 , and
May 8 .
The bus iness and announcement s part o f
t he meet ing is fo llowed by a program on a
caving re lat ed topic. Board meet ings, at
which grot to bus iness is d iscussed, are
usua lly he ld on the four th Wednesday o f t he
mo nth at 7:30 p.m. and open to ever yone . The
exact dat es and locat ions o f t he board
meet ings wil l be announced at t he grot to
meet ings. The June Speleonews wil l be
assembled fo r mail ing dur ing the May board
meet ing.
The dead l ine fo r each issue o f the
Speleonews is t he weekend fo llowing the
grot to meet ing o f t he month preced ing the
mo nth o f is sue. All mater ia l mus t be
submit t ed in fina l fo r m via e - mai l, o r on CD
or paper at t hat t ime. The deadline for the
June Speleonews i s the weekend of May 11 -
12.
UPCOMING EVENTS March 23. NSS Board o f Governors meet ing,
San Jose, Ca li fo rnia.
May 3-5. Spr ing MVOR, Dil lard Mil l, Mis-
sour i.
May 24-27. Kentucky Spe leo fest , Lone Star
Preserve, Kentucky.
June 28-30. Cave Caper s, Crawford County
Fa irgrounds, Ind iana.
July 12-14. Karst -O-Rama, Great Saltpet re
Cave Preserve, Mt . Vernon, Kentucky.
July 21-28. 16th Int ernat iona l Congress o f
Spe leo logy, Brno , Czech Republ ic.
August 5-9. NSS Convent ion, Shippensburg,
Pennsylvania. Let ’s have a good WCG turn-
out .
July 14-18, 2014. NSS Convent ion, Hunt s-
vi l le , Alabama. A housewar ming Convent ion
at t he new NSS HQ.
MEMBERSHIP NEWS Our annua l Grot to membership list shows
a tot al o f 51 members o f t he Windy Cit y
Grot to, inc lud ing 39 regu lar (NSS) and 12
assoc iat e member s. The NSS members
inc lude seven li fe members o f t he g rot to .
This compares with 39 regular and 9
assoc iat e member s fo r a tot al o f 48 Grot to
members in March 2012 . All names and
addresses appear in t he membership list in
t his is sue.
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Br ian Voss
892 Spruce St .
Winnetka, IL 60093
(847) 224-5485
br [email protected] m
CHANGES OF ADDRESS
Tom Campbell, NSS 60588
1213 Frances Parkway
Park Ridge, IL 60068
(563) 321-2838
t jcampbe l l@gmail. co m
THE CARBIDE DUN
The fo llowing members, exp ir ing between
now and the next issue, are list ed be lo w by
mo nth o f exp irat ion. Pay at t he meet ing o r
send your payment to t he t reasurer , Sandra
Schumann, 2252A Baldwin, Pa lat ine , IL
60074. Note: Please make your check
payable t o Windy Cit y Gro t to. Dues fo r fu l l
membership is $15.00 per year .
Expiring in Apri l 2013:
Mar y Alksnis Evan Schumann
Todd Orwat Fred Schumann
Greg Schmit Sandra Schumann
Er ich Schumann
Expiring in May 2013:
Gerr y Wo lt er ing
Expiring in June 2013:
Alison Chambliss Paul Dinger
Terry Chambliss Doug Harr is
THE CARBIDE DUMP
The fo l lowing members have been
dropped fo r non-payment o f dues:
Co lleen Ling ler Jack JT Thomsen
4 The Windy Ci ty Speleonews, March 2013 Vol . 53
I called Pat Davis t he night be fo re to
make sure he had ever ything ready and al l his
gear was compact and set to go . We ta lked
about what we were go ing to do and the en-
counters we might have in Puer to Rico as
we ll as t he lack o f s leep we will get , t he
amaz ing locat ions we wil l be go ing to and the
car . I woke up at 3:30 am to cat ch my 6 am
f light to Phil ly, which connected to San Juan.
Pat was go ing to land exact ly a ha lf hour af-
t er me, which gave me t ime to get t he rent a l
and dr ive back to get him so we could go
st raight to t he rain fo rest . When I got to
Puer to Rico , I had ever ything as car r y-on, so
I went to get t he rent a l without a problem, set
up my gear in t he car and wait ing fo r Pat to
land. The t ra ffic was get t ing bad, and i f you
have been to Puerto Rico befo re you wil l un-
derst and how bad people dr ive out there.
Having sa id that , when we pulled the car
back into the rent a l center we had scra t ches
on ever y co rner o f t he car but I haven’t heard
fro m them about any o f t hat , cross my fin-
gers.
Once I picked up Pat we went to gather
some food and water fo r t he week and set up
camp on top o f a r idge in a far mer’s land. We
went over t he week and st ar t ed to prepare fo r
t he cascade hike by rout ing the t raverse and
d iscuss ing hazards we may encounter inc lud-
ing flash floods. We got to bed knowing this
was go ing to be a fast t r ip fu ll o f wake up
and go , eat , sleep, repeat….and it was…
Pat and I woke up ear ly T hursday morning so
we could get to t he water fa l l cascade hike
be fo re t he aft ernoon flash floods ro ll in. In
Puer to Rico fla sh floods can happen at any-
t ime but since we went in t he dry season the
threat o f flash f loods was min imized. We got
a r ide to t he bo t tom o f Rio Blanco which is
ca lled “E l Hipp ie” . This has a poo l o f water
with a canyo n r ight above the fir st water fa l l.
We ascended the jung le t ra il unt il we got to
t he drop in o f t he Rio Blanco . The bou lders
were large and s l ipper y….. ver y s l ipper y!
One wrong move and you can s l ip , crack your
bones, wash down the r iver over a water fa l l,
o r get keyed in with t he swift current in some
sect ions.
We wore 5.10 canyoneer boot s, which
have st icky rubber mater ia l t hat wil l give
good t ract ion even wit h s l ipper y cond it ions. I
wanted to be ext ra carefu l t ak ing Pa t up-
st ream as swift water is no t something he is
familiar with and this hike is no t fo r beg in-
ners. ( you have been warned) . We made it to
t he confluence o f t he Rio Cubuy and the Rio
Icacos, which had a ser ies o f large swif t wa-
t er water fa l ls and hydrau l ic bo ils surround ing
us. There were a lso some deep water swims
which requ ired t ravers ing at t imes to make
sure we had the r ight ang le o f approach and a
way down just in case something happened.
Some bou lder c limbs we had to use webbing
and work as a t eam to counterba lance our-
se lves so we could leverage each other over
t he boulders. I t was beaut ifu l t o be immersed
in t he ra in fo rest swimming in 65 degree wa-
t er with t he t emperature at a humid 75 de-
grees surrounded by waterfa lls and an amaz-
ing view o f t he ocean from where we were.
We kept go ing unt il we go t to t he main
water fa l l. This water fa ll you can see from the
road 5 miles away and accord ing to t he map,
t his water fa l l appears to be around 200 feet
o f e levat ion, with a 30 to a 40 degree ang le
at po int s. We had lunch and dec ided to f lank
the fa lls t o t he r ight . We found ourse lves
bou lder ing over s lipper y rocks and thick
vegetat ion that had sk in ir r it at ion proper t ies,
t ho rns, and smal l caver n like ho les in be-
tween these bou lders, one wrong footho ld and
you can go tumbling down into a ho le and get
stuck in a ver y hard to reach sect ion o f t he
jung le. “And this was go ing so well” I sa id
befo re we found ourselves in t his he l l ho le.
We dec ided to t urn back but rea lized ver y
qu ick ly that we lost our t raverse, so now we
had to negot iat e and p lan each st ep and we
mo ved ver y caut ious ly back down. One st ep I
took my foot went t hrough the shrubbery and
I caught myse lf be fo re s lipp ing into one o f
t hese night mares. Knowing the r iver is t o our
r ight we aimed in t hat direct ion to t he r iver
and found ourse lves ha lfway up on a bou lder
t hat act ed as a she lf over t he water fa l l. I re-
member saying to Pat , “how did we get so
lucky”! We found a spo t where we cou ld get
out o f t hat mess, get our bear ings and con-
t inue to ascend the water fa l l t o a sect ion ¾ o f
t he way up and had ano ther break to t alk
about what just happened and cont inue our
p lan. We cont inued back to t he r ight and
found the sect ion was too s lipper y so we
went le ft and WHAA…found a smal l t rail
t hrough the other side o f t he r iver . This sec-
t ion o f t he ra in fo rest fe lt like a highway
compared to t he le ft s ide.
We made a hast y c limb to t he top and me-
andered around the bend to descend back into
the water on top o f t he water fa l l. We d id it . I
rea lly was one o f t hose mo ment s wher e you
had to be there to underst and how the cha l-
lenge p layed out and the fee ling we had when
PUERTO RICO: JANUARY 16-22, 2013 BY ADAM HAYDOCK
Vol . 53 The Windy Ci ty Speleonews, March 2013 5
we made it over successfu l ly. We encoun-
t ered smal ler water fa l l cha l lenges bu t we
were able t o overcome those cha l lenges and
make it to t he p ipe l ine t rail in good t ime.
“Wow what an amaz ing hike”! Now that was
cascade route find ing, p lanning, and great
t eam work! We fo llowed the easy p ipe line
t rail t o t he top o f t he road where we walked
back down and got back to our camp. We
dr ied ever ything out and re -packed ever y-
thing fo r t he next sect ion o f t he t r ip ( t he
caves) .
I t can be a cha llenge to sleep in Puerto
Rico at night with t he ear -p ierc ing coq i frogs
a ll night long. They sound nice when there
are just a few but when there are hundreds o f
t hem surround ing your t ent all in d iso rder ly
and syncopated conver sat ion, it t akes t he
rhyt hm out o f your sleep process and into a
psychede l ic daze o f so r t s where you are not
sure if you are sleep ing or awake at t imes. I
am no t sure how many hours o f s leep we got
but we had to wake up 5:30 am At lant ic t ime,
which is 3:30 am Cent ra l t ime, so we could
get to t he other s ide o f t he is land to meet up
with cavers. We go t up, st ruck camp, and
st art ed meander ing our way down the moun-
t ain t o t he main highway. Mapquest was t ell-
ing me one way to get to Arec ibo . Pat ’s
Google Maps device was t ell ing us another
way to get t here, and with my exper ience be-
ing in Puer to Rico , I knew I had to t r ick my
GPS.
I t makes dr iving int erest ing when GPS
t ells us t o get o ff on a road and it is a com-
p let e ly d if ferent road than we are supposed to
be on. P lus t he GPS to ld us t o go down roads
that were not even there to get to a dest ina-
t ion!. Whaaa!!. . . We worked our way on the
highway towards San Juan so we can go west
and ran into a to ll syst em that we found to be
ver y confus ing. Not only do they charge a lot
o f money but t here are four different k inds o f
to ll syst ems where they wil l g ive you a card
i f in rep lacement o f g iving you change, or
you have to buy a pass t o go through the
to lls . I shou ld have just act ivat ed the to ll at
t he car rent a l and got t he insurance too.
We made it to Arec ibo an hour ear ly so we
had to chance to casua lly prepare fo r t he cav-
ing phase o f t he t r ip and o rganize ever ything
in t he car . Je ff showed up to t he meet -up lo -
cat ion and I fo llowed him to the fir st cave,
Los Chorros. Los Chorros has two beaut ifu l
ent rances but one o f t hem requ ires t he use o f
rope to ent er t he syst em.
We parked our car and Je f f st ar t ed to ex-
p la in t o me that last t ime Amer ican cavers
went into t his syst em they were get t ing shot
at . PLUS, parking our cars at any cave in
Puer to Rico , means t aking the r isk o f broken
car windows and the ft so we had to br ing our
va luables and ever yt hing e lse is put in t he
t runk. We came this far so there was no stop-
p ing us. We walked up the hi l l fo l lowing the
water fa l l ent rance and c l imbed up into the
mouth o f t he cave. A boa const r ictor was
we lco ming us at t he ent rance to t he cave,
a long with o ther snakes, crabs, t he “guaba”
sp ider (which is a large t ail le ss non poison-
ous sco rpion the size o f bo th o f my hands) ,
and po isonous sco rpions.
We go t into t his act ive water syst em with
the t emp ins ide be ing 75 degrees with 100%
humid it y and the water t emp at 65 degrees. It
fe lt rea lly war m ins ide this cave. We st ar t ed
our t raverse and the wall passages were l ined
with fo rmat ions fro m flowstone to st alact it es
and st a lagmit es. We had to wade in water and
go under some small br ie f low a ir sect ions to
where the cave opened up into walk ing r iver
cave passage. Bat s were flying a l l over t he
p lace as t hey squeaked fro m a ll d irect ions
and flew in a chao t ic frenzy yet t hey were
aware no t to run into anyt hing( it appeared) .
We meandered around breakdown and go t to a
sect ion where we had to climb up into an up-
per passage where water carved out t ube like
sharp fo rmat ions under our feet . It ’s st il l
amazes me how water has t he power to slowly
evo lve rocks into some o f t he most amaz ing
features over mil lennia. We cont inued down
the passages enjo ying the features o f t he cave
and came to t he sump. The sump has been
reco rded as a dive in t he past with d ive line
but I was not able to get too much more in-
fo r mat ion about t hat . I don’t be lieve the re are
any more reco rds ind icat ing where the sump
leads to but it is fa ir y evident t hat all t he wa-
t er is coming fro m this sump.
We st ar t ed our t raverse out o f t he cave
and went down ano ther couple s ide passages
which were even narrower than the previous
canyo ns and the to rrent s o f water rag ing
through these smal l canyo n passages have
creat ed a mosa ic o f we ll -de f ined and sharp
scu lptures which were amaz ing to see. I
could hear my c lo thes t ear ing as I wou ld pass
by so me o f t hese fo r mat ions but we walked
over smal l water fa l ls and made it t o t he other
ent rance. I t was nice t o see that our cars were
st il l one p iece too . We made it out of t he
cave and got back to our cars without inc i-
dent . Thankfu l ly!
We drove through a small t own in Ar e-
c ibo to get to t he locat ion where we would
park our cars and walk to t he second cave
(Cueva Sorbetos). The ne ighborhood had a
few murders happen a few days previo us, so
we had to park the cars and get into t he rain
fo rest qu ick ly without caus ing a d isturbance
in t he ne ighborhood. We walked to t he
Tanama River and crossed the unusua l ly clear
water to get to t he ent rance o f t he cave. At -
t empt s have been made to block the cave us-
ing concret e but main ent rance remains open.
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There is a smal l crawl in t he beg inn ing, but
once you pass t he crawl you are able t o st and.
We look up, around and at t he bot tom leve l
o f t his muddy cave, my jaw drops!. . . . . hang-
ing on the lower leve l a s far as I can see are
hundreds o f t housands o f whit e ca lc it e soda
st raws var ying fro m a few mil limeters to over
two feet in length!!
“We are fina l ly here,” I was think ing as I
st art ed my descent down into the lower leve l.
The passage is ver y s l ipper y and muddy but
we were able to get down to t he bot tom and
st are in awe at t he shimmer ing ca lc it e co l-
umns that were the s ize o f Par thenon co l-
umns, and the chande l ier rooms saturat ed
with these whit e soda st raw fo rmat ions. I
don’t t hink I have ever seen this many soda
st raws condensed into one cave l ike this ever ,
and I am no t sure o f any o ther place on ear th
t hat has t his k ind o f soda st raw co llect ion.
We cont inued to wa lk down the passage into
a breakdown room and into a large highway-
l ike co liseum passage with a st alact it e t hree
sto r ies high.
We viewed a p it t hat led to a sump, and I
was to ld that a dive was made into this sump
but it did no t render any favorable resu lt s.
We cont inued to t he end o f t he cave where a
breakdown mounta in has co llapsed a room,
but bu i lt a st a irway o f breakdown to t he top
leaving ano ther 50 ft to t he ce il ing. Wow!!
We t raversed back and took a s ide passage
route to more chande l ier rooms fu l l o f he l ic-
t it e soda st raw fo rmat ions that ext ended up to
6 inches from the main fo r mat ion, which
looked like ner ve connect ions. Aft er four
hours we exit ed the cave and washed o ff in
t he Tanama River . This cave far exceeded my
expectat ions and le ft me ponder ing how these
amaz ing syst ems exist in t he underworld o f
our planet .
We go t back to t he car and headed to a
ho tel t o eat and s leep r ight away to get ready
fo r t he next day o f caving wit hin the twin
g iant s, Evaporada and Humo. We actua lly had
a chance to s leep in a coup le ext ra hours to-
day due to t he fact t hat we got a hotel room,
two beds and c loser t o cave count ry in PR so
we d idn’t have to dr ive so far . We met up
with Tom Mil ler , Je ff Kruse, Kat r ina Kruse,
Richard, and Bro at a pastry shop near t he
Rio Camuy. We were really exc it ed to see
these two caves because I have heard they
have large passage rooms and we are go ing
into a sect ion o f Cueva de l Humo that is not
we ll vis it ed. We entered the property and the
landowners were a bit upset t hat we had a lot
o f cars with us but we were able to smooth
that over with t hem. We qu ick ly go t out o f
t he ir way and st ar t ed our t raverse around a
This page: Two cavers si lhouet ted just inside
the entrance of Cueva Evaporada. Next
page, clockwise fro m upper le ft : Entrance of
Cueva Evaporada f rom bot tom; Adam Hay-
dock next to soda straws in Cueva Sorbetos;
soda straws and stalagmites in Cueva Sorbe-
tos; soda straws and hel ict i tes in Cueva Sor-
betos; a large room in Cueva Evaporada; two
bats in Cueva los Charros; a passage in
Cueva los Charros. Photos by Adam Hay-
dock.
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r idge bend into the fo rest and down the s ink-
ho le.
We walked up on Cueva Evaporada and it
was breathing fog. It was beaut ifu l t o see the
ent rance o f t he cave syst em, but we went to
t he other s ide o f t he s inkho le where Cueva
de l Humo is. This ent rance was just a lit t le
bit smal ler but it must have been hundreds o f
feet from the bot tom of t he lip to t he top. We
a ll ent ered the cave and swit chbacked down
to t he bot tom of t he monster syst em, and
when we fina l ly go t down we looked back out
and you could see the head lamps o f other
members mak ing the ir way down to t he main
passage. Once at t he bot tom we would shine
our light on the ce il ing and thousands o f bat s
t he s ize o f smal l ger bils f lew hundreds o f
feet up above our heads. At t imes it looked
l ike the ce i l ing was morphing into some k ind
o f sc i- f i pheno menon, as you heard the wind
mo ve fro m the ir wings a lo ng wit h the
squeaky co mmunicat ion these amaz ing crea-
tures had. At t imes you can fee l t he a tmos-
phere change a l it t le o r fee l a s light breeze
fro m the bat s flying around. Cr icket sounds
echoed in t he lower sect ions o f t hese cathe-
dra l rooms that are able to fit 15+ sto ry
bu i ld ings. I pondered to myse lf how the bat s
could fee l our light shin ing on top of t he
ce il ing which wou ld st art t his mass mo ve-
ment o f bat s down the passages.
We st ar t ed our climb up into the main
ha l lway passage as we passed anc ient f low-
stones poss ibly hundreds o f t housands o f
years o ld. Ever ything was g igant ic in t his
cave and I cou ld only imag ine how nature
creat ed these mass ive rooms. We cont inued
down the main passage wit h a carbon dioxide
meter and went down slopes over some water,
into more mass ive rooms and cont inued to
t raverse down this mo numenta l passage . The
guano was thick and at some po int s it may
have even fi l led p it s ins ide the cave and cre-
at ed br idges t o get from one s ide to t he other ,
but we could no t confir m that .
We came to a rest r ict ion that had mult ip le
p it s and a t yro lean t raverse set up. The prob-
lem wit h this set up was that it had been
t here fo r over 20 years, most o f us d idn’t
have ver t ica l gear , and i f t he rope were to
break we would tumble down one o f t he 25 -
foo t pit s . It would no t have been good fo r me
to be injured in Puer to Rico at t he bot tom of
a p it . Not having my ver t ica l gear and my
own rope, I opt ed to not cont inue and nobody
e lse wanted to go fir st eit her . So we turned
around back out o f t he cave enjo ying the ge-
o logy o f t he cave and a ll t he inhabit ant s. In
some sect ions you could t ake a st ep and
worms wou ld pop out o f t he ground a ft er
each st ep, and other places we found sco rpi-
ons lurk ing around under rock she lves.
We c l imbed back out and went over to
Cueva Evaporada. Cueva Evaporada is on the
other s ide o f Cueva de l Humo and is par t o f
t he Rio Camuy syst em. These two caves are
at t he upper sect ion o f t he syst em which goes
fro m the Rio Evaporada through Cueva de l
Humo, and apparent ly we can exit Cueva de l
Humo into Cueva Ange les, which connect s to
t he tour ist sect ion o f Rio Camuy and down
into Sist ema Bocaza de l I nfier ni l lo , where
Ponor 1,2,3 exist , which eventua lly emerges
into t he Rio Camuy r iver .
We entered the cave which looked like the
top part o f t he ent rance had t eeth fit fo r a
mo nster , and as we were wa lk ing into this
beast o f a cave the views were ju st spec t acu-
lar fro m the ins ide out . One o f t he best views
I have ever seen ins ide a cave EVER. We
cont inued into this mass ive passage and came
into a large room wit h two eyes at t he ce il ing
the allowed light to shine in like a spot light
down into the ground leve l. The fo r mat ions
looked anc ient and the room echoed with the
rever b o f an opera house. We cont inued to
c limb up an anc ient flowstone into a moun-
t ain room, which appeared to end in break-
down. We t raversed back and up to t he r ight
to go to t he second ent rance, which is a s ink
ho le with vines and a large t ree growing out
o f t he s ink.
I t reminded me o f t he movie Sanctum , but
inst ead o f find ing a t ank we found a micro
ra in fo rest ins ide this s inkho le. I t was spec-
t acular t o find this locat ion, as we were able
to climb out o f it to view fro m the top and
crawl through s ide passages to view foss ils . I
was drank a l l my water and st ar t ed to dr ink
Pat ’s water and realized I was get t ing l ight -
headed from the high humid it y and t empera-
ture ins ide this cave. Luck i ly we were c lose
to t he ent rance, so we t raversed back and
s lowly took our t ime coming out o f t his
amaz ing cave.
Last day o f caving we checked out o f the
ho tel and went to t he pastry shop to meet up
with the rest o f t he cavers fo r t he day. Pat
and I had a conversat ion about swift water
t echniques. Pat was concerned about swim-
ming in t he cave so I made a flo t at ion device
out o f my backpack fo r him so he wil l be able
to float sa fe ly while t ravers ing this cave. Po-
nor in Spanish mean Los ing River and this
cave is known to have ext reme flash floods.
I t is a par t o f t he Infer il lo Syst em which is a
connect ion to t he Rio Camuy Syst em. We
parked our cars and entered into the cave and
qu ick ly saw a lo t o f garbage on the cei l ing,
inc lud ing a re fr igerato r and other heavy de-
br is only ver y st rong water could carr y
through this syst em. The cave was no t ver y
decorat ed but we were to ld t here were a
spr ink ler , a beach area, and a pond wit h a
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Rico’s water syst ems rea l ly are and how pow-
erfu l water is in genera l. We came back to
t he car ear ly and figured this is a hike we can
do fo r next t ime we co me back. We went to
buy red na i l po lish and at t empted to cover up
the scrat ches in t he car which turned out to
no t work too well, so we relaxed near a beach
rest aurant and went to t he El Yunqe North
d ist r ict to swim a bit and pack a l l o f our gear
up and s leep. We woke up pret ty ear ly and
made it t o t he a irpo r t pret ty qu ick ly just to
make sure we d id no t run into any snags get -
t ing there. We dropped o ff t he car and they
d idn’t say anyt hing about t he scrat ches o r
about any to lls so I hope it st ays like t hat .
We go t to t he a irpo rt and sat down c leaned up
a bit and had a nice lunch ponder ing just
what t he he ll happened and how fast t his t r ip
went . We got a chance to go to some o f t he
most amaz ing p laces in Puerto Rico , and now
we were go ing back to t he mainland where it
was 85 degrees co lder . This t r ip was one o f
t he most amaz ing exper iences I have ever
been on and I can’t wa it to go back next year .
The fo llowing persons were invo lved in
t he product ion, co llat ing and mail ing of t he
December Speleonews : Ra lph Ear landson,
Laura Lexander , Greg Schmit , Fred Schu-
mann, and Sandra Schumann.
2012 WCG TREASURY REPORT
Balance, January 1, 2012 $1,784.68
Income:
Renewals $515.00
Donat ions $5.00
BMAL Sa les $108.75
TOTAL INCOME $628.75
Deduct ions:
Speleonews $131.20
Web S it e Renewal $260.75
BMAL I t ems $124.05
P icnic $71.56
Bank Fees $4.95
TOTAL DEDUCTIONS $592.51
Balance, December 31, 2012 $1,820.92
- - Respect fu l ly submit t ed
Sandra Schumann, Treasurer
waterfa l l, so we were int erest ed in check ing
this out . We got about 500 feet into t he cave
to a locat ion where there was a p ile o f gar-
bage, a dead animal, chemica ls on the sur-
face, and drug bo t t les flo at ing around. From
the t ime we spent in Puer to Rico , we man-
aged to get some open wounds and on top o f
t he flash flood dangers and swimming pro fi-
c iency we dec ided to t urn out o f t he cave and
headed to t he commerc ia l sect ion o f t he Rio
Camuy at t he st at e park.
The commerc ia l sect ion was int erest ing to
be in because ever yone was c lean, we ll - r est ed
and exc it ed to t ake a t ro lley down to t he
commerc ia l cave. I t was a bit expens ive to
get in but it was ver y int erest ing to see this
sect ion, which turns out to be a very beaut i-
fu l sect ion o f t he cave syst em, and where we
would have washed out o f if we got caught in
a flash flood. We took this t ro lley down and
were t alk ing to people around us about where
we have been, which p iqued the ir int erest ,
s ince this was the first t imes in a cave fo r
many o f t hem. The t ro lley took up to t he en-
t rance, and it was ano ther nice ent rance
(pavement o f course) which took us around
and ins ide the large dome room. The light
ins ide the cave gave a nice overview of t he
s ize and mass t his room has which was an-
other nice aspect o f go ing to t he commerc ia l
sect ion o f t he cave. We made it around to t he
r iver po rt ion and exit ed the cave re laxing and
ponder ing how nice it would have been to
have a t ro lley t ake us down some o f t he other
sect ions o f t he syst em.
We made it back up to t he vis it o r center
and I soon found myse lf surrounded by a
c lassroom fu l l o f chi ldren ask ing me ques-
t ions about caving and the sect ions o f t he Rio
Camuy Syst em we have been into . Apparent ly
t he people we were t alk ing to were t eachers
and they wanted us to t alk to t he ir student s a
bit about our adventures and what caving is
l ike. Once we le ft t he locat ion we headed
back to t he El Yunque to live out t he las t day
o f our vacat ion, re lax a bit and t raverse t he
Rio Cubuy.
Last day in Puer to Rico and we were
pack ing up our gear fo r t he flight ho me and
think ing about how the he l l we are go ing to
f ix t he car fro m the scrat ches t hat showed up.
We dec ided to c lean up in a water fa l l sect ion
o f t he Rio Cubuy and t raverse downst ream
fo r a morning hike be fo re fix ing up ever y-
thing. We no t iced the clouds ro ll ing in and
d idn’t want to be caught in a fla sh flood com-
ing down this easy cascade hike. We mean-
dered a bit over boulders and smal l water fa l ls
t il l we got to a car pushed into the corner o f
t he cut bank in t he r iver . I t was an eye
opener to see this car co mpacted into box o f
st ee l. This made me wonder how wild Puerto
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go through the t ight squeeze wit h po r t ions
be ing be l ly crawl, a bit more on hands and
knees (st rong knee pads requ ired) , and a lit t le
stooping. About 40 percent o f t he group
turned around and backed out aft er about ha lf
way in fo r var ious reasons. Al l o f t hem are
good reasons and it was import ant (and a l-
ways wil l be import ant ) to be consc ient ious
o f your limit at ions. Never fee l pressured to
cont inue when you don’t fee l r ight , and I re-
spect ever yone fo r having the r ight st at e o f
mind by do ing just t hat . Lot s o f acc ident s
come fro m people who fee l peer -pressur ed to
cont inue. We cont inued on and the crawl
st art ed turning into a s lot canyo n. It cont in-
ued to get deeper unt il it opened up into the
main canyo n passage. That crawl appears to
have been an anc ient water fa ll t hat would
feed the main canyo n passage.
We maneuvered le ft , which was a bit s l ip-
per y, and the wrong move cou ld send some-
one down into the canyo n 10 -15 ft . be low.
We made it to t he confluence and checked
our bear ings. We dec ided to find the RPI pas-
sage, which proved to be a cha llenge, but we
were able to find a wet st ream passage which
we fo llowed up st ream unt il t he st ream got
narrow and deeper . We cont inued downst ream
and proceeded under t he main passage, which
we found out actually became the main pas-
sage. The passages were darker in co lo r and
the water made int erest ing keyho le cut s,
sharp she lves above us, and sca l lop like wave
cut s into t he rock which made the narrow ra-
vine passage a beaut ifu l scu lptured mosa ic o f
co lo r and st ructure. I was impressed with the
sca le and geo logy Wayne 's Cave has t o offer .
Aft er go ing through a few large break-
down rooms the canyo n got deeper and nar-
rowed even more. We dec ided to t ake the
high ground and fo llow the she lf unt il t he
canyo n cut in-between our t raverse. Aft er
care fu l cons iderat ion we dec ided to make a
descent from the she lf s lope with a guide line
o f webbing and drop down to t he bot tom of
t he canyo n which was about 5 -6 ft . from the
l ip o f t he bo t tom she lf sect ion to t he canyo n
f loo r . It was a good cha l lenge and we a ll
worked together to make sure ever yo ne was
able t o get down sa fe.
We cont inued down the canyo n into more
breakdown rooms. Some o f t hese ce i l ings
must have been 30-40 feet up with large
bou lders keyed into some o f t he narrow sec-
t ions which were qu it e int erest ing to see. We
entered a breakdown room and had lunch. It
BLOWING HOLE AND WAYNE ’S
Ind iana December 15-16, 2012
Blowing Ho le Cave is locat ed in southern
Ind iana, and is over seven miles o f r iver cave
and s ide passages that connect s to Bink ley
Cave, mak ing this cave a part o f t he Bink ley
Syst em. Dave E ver ton and I went into t his
syst em to pursue a poss ible sump lead and
shor t survey work. I was having neck spasms,
p inching my nerves, so I dec ided it would not
be a good idea to go swimming around in a
sump. We ended up do ing a t r ip t hrough waist
deep water , t hrough a water fa l l, and int o the
upper passage. The geo logy changes fro m
mud- banked r iver passage to walk ing on
rocks with sharp wave- like rock passages,
s leeper rocks underwater fo r your shins to
bang into unless you have a wa lk ing st ick,
and dark coat ed walls t hat eat up light but
g ive the at mosphere o f t he cave a unique per-
sona lit y. I love r iver caves so I had a lot o f
fun t ravers ing through the r iver syst em,
t hrough the water fa l l and into the upper pas-
sage. I am ver y surpr ised that t his cave goes
fo r over 7 miles ; you can ser ious ly take a
kayak through a good port ion o f t his cave. I
wore a 7mm wet su it , boot s, and gloves as t he
water was 54 degrees. Due to my neck I took
o ff so me o f my s ide light s on my he lmet and
was no t able to get t he best pictures I wanted
but t he t r ip was fant ast ic and it was great to
have a day wit h a good fr iend .
On December 16 fo r me was a t r ip into
t he histo r ic Wayne’s Cave, Monroe County. I
woke up fee l ing a lit t le bet t er and will ing to
g ive Wayne’s a sho t knowing I might have to
t urn back due to my neck. Phi l Go ldman was
able to t alk me through it a bit and I came to
rea lize t hat it is ju st muscu lar pa in and not
an actua l injur y so I was ext ra caut ious and
mo ving s low. I met up with Phi l Go ldman,
Molly Go ldman, Dor ian Goldman, Noboru
Sakabe, Scot t Smemo, Liz Davis, Pat Davis,
Meghan Davis, and Laura Sanga i la. We a ll
le ft together and go t to t he property a round
10 AM. We went t hrough a br ie fing and en-
t ered Wayne’s cave at 10:30 with the he lp o f
webbing used as a gu ide l ine. We a l l knew
that t his cave was a bit more advanced with a
chance o f get t ing lost , so we paid ext ra at t en-
t ion to where we were on the map. We soon
found out t hat we walked r ight by the famous
crawl passage and into a few dead ends, so
t aking it s low was impor t ant . We st arted to
TRIP REPORTS
Vol . 53 The Windy Ci ty Speleonews, March 2013 11
was 1:30, and we d iscussed that we would be
back at t he crawl exit by 3:30. The dec is ion
was made to t urn around to give us t ime to go
back to where we st art ed and look fo r t he fo r-
mat ion rooms as we l l a s g ive us t ime to get
back out o f t he canyo n. One at a t ime we
c limbed out o f t he canyo n; ever yo ne d id a
fant ast ic jo b in c limbing out as it was a cha l-
lenge. I went la st as I knew my shoes had no
t ract ion and if I were to s lip I d idn’t want to
creat e more anxiet y fo r t he c limb out fo r eve-
r yone e lse. Unfo r tunately I d id s lip and
made sure I immediat e ly ro lled like a cat
with my legs fac ing down so my feet , knee
pads, hands, and a ro ll on the ground all took
just a smal l po rt ion o f t he fa l l as I opposed
fo rces to t he walls wit h my hands and feet
and it worked great . Pract ic ing how to c limb
is a lways import ant as we ll a s lear ning how
to fa l l ( I t hrew those shoes out as t hey were
no use anymore) . I quick ly go t back up and
thrust ed myse lf t hrough ever yt hing and got to
t he top.
We t raversed back to t he crawl in good
t ime. We had an ext ra hour to spare so we
went looking fo r t he RPI passage and fo rma-
t ion rooms and found that we were bas ica l ly
go ing in c irc les. I was to ld t he map was a bit
confus ing but we went back to t he water pas-
sage and I got in t he water to see if it could
be pushed and made the dec is io n to t urn
around s ince the water fe lt like it was a round
53-55 degrees and hypo ther mia cou ld set in.
We ended up mak ing the dec is io n to exit and
took our t ime in t he crawl. We made it out at
exact ly 3:30 pm where the others ce lebrat ed
our exit with caver cheer . We were ver y c lose
to Camp 2 as I realized once we got back and
could have kept go ing but conservat ism over-
ru led that idea. Plus we can a lways come
back and keep pushing on. I want to t hank
Danye le Co t t rell, Chr is Parks, and Dave
Ever ton fo r t he ir support as well fo r t he map.
I am espec ia l ly proud o f each member o f our
group fo r coming together as a t eam, work ing
through cha llenges together and enjo ying a
great histor ic cave while pract ic ing no -
impact caving.
- - Adam Haydock
SULLIVAN ’S TRIP
Sullivan’s Cave Januar y 12, 2013
Lawrence Count y, Ind iana
A t r ip to Sull ivan’s cave was dec ided
upon and qu ick ly took shape as people st ar t ed
to chime in on the ir int erest to go into this
cave. We p lanned fo r a 10 to 12 hour t rip in-
s ide the cave and coordinat ed e ffo r t s to en-
sure we had a fant ast ic exper ience in t his
cave.
Phi l Go ldman, Mo lly Go ldman, Dor ian
Goldman, Laura Sanga i la, Scot t Smemo,
Adam Haydock, Laura Oliver , Noboru Sa-
kabe, Tom Janas, Bob Lippo ld, Jo rge Barrera,
and Pat Davis a ll coordinat ed to be on the
road head ing south by 6 am cent ral t ime. We
stopped to meet up with more member s o f t he
group and a lso meet other member s as we
were dr iving on the highway to get to t he
cave as fast as we can. The convo y entered
the Sull ivan property and we had ever yone
together .
The group gathered the ir gear , t ied the
hand l ine into t he 7 - foot drop and we went
t hrough our int roduct ion br ie fing. We a l l en-
t ered the cave at around 12:30 Cent ra l t ime
without any problems.
We st art ed to fo llow the beaut ifu l s lot
canyo n passage and inst ead o f fo llowing up
with some o f our int ent ions the backbreaker
was above us we cont inued to fo llow a c rawl-
ing passage wit h so me water unt il we st ar t ed
to get into a mis-o r ient at ion o f le ft and r ight
hand passages. We cont inued to meander t he
s lo t canyon passages which had so me int er -
est ing rock st rat if icat ion and st ream passages
be low. I t was easy to get t urned around in
t his sect ion as I t hought we were mak ing a
c irc le back to t he ent rance, and other fingers
were po int le ft and r ight as t he way to go.
This is when caving beco mes int erest ing !!
We dec ided to t urn around as t his passage
was no t t he way to t he back breaker and make
a t raverse back to where we saw the “ho le in
t he ce il ing”. We soon found ourse lves in t he
end less crevice which was in it se lf int erest -
ing as we were confused where we were once
aga in. We o r ient ed the map got our bear ing
and I det ermined there are only a couple o f
passages in our area where we are fac ing in
t hat part icu lar bear ing. We back t racked our
posit ion to another smal l confluence which
had ano ther confluence just to t he southwest
o f t he passage. I st art ed e liminat ing opt ions
and got a sense o f bear ing, d irect ion aft er
Noboru gathered info r mat ion on passages
around us. It became evident t hat we have to
go through a chosen un named passage which
d id no t look famil iar but we ended up back
the back breaker .
Bob’s shoes fe l l apar t so he had to exit
t he cave, good dec is io n Bob. We can a lways Wayne’s Cave. Photo by Adam Haydock.
12 The Windy Ci ty Speleonews, March 2013 Vol . 53
go back with bet t er shoes. We were a t t he
Backbreaker connect ion fo r a ha lf hour due to
complicat ions wit h t he rusty lock but man-
aged to get back on t rack and went
southbound to t he T -Room.
We went into t he Merry-Go-Round Room
and go t to see the water fa l l flowing s ince
there was a lo t o f snow melt . We cont inued to
complet e a t raverse back to t he T -Room to
pursue the Mountain Room. It was a pleasant
surpr ise t o have nice wa lk ing passage a ft er
hours o f const r ict ion fo r t he group go ing to
t he Mountain Room. We made a crawl to a
dead end but found ourse lves go ing into the
Mountain Room, and wow what a nice s it e to
see! Large breakdown creat ing a high ce il ing
up to 64 feet was a nice exper ience.
We found the lower st ream passage that
was light ly flo wing as we entered the lower
connect ion passage to t he Y -Room. This pas-
sage has so me int erest ing sca l loped water cut
rock fo rmat ions wit h breakdown to wa lk
over . The ce il ing passage became larger and
so we went fo r higher ground and came up to
t he r iver passage.
The lower r iver passage is a nice large
highway l ike condu it t hat was up to wa ist
deep 54 degree water. Some member s o f t he
par ty st ayed back as we t raversed to the Y -
Room, where we could hear rapid water exit -
ing fro m the north. This was a bit more o f an
observance ca ll s ince the pour -over had some
decent push to it , reversa ls were in t he cut
banks and if t he water leve ls were st rong
enough than they can sweep you o ff your feet
and t ake you downst ream. Noboru crossed the
r iver and we fo llowed a ft erwards. Luckily t he
f low not to st rong and min imal s leeper rocks
underwater to st ep over but it will be wise to
have a hand line t ied on to t he fir st person so
i f someone does get swept o ff t he ir feet t han
leverag ing them back to sa fet y wil l be eas ier .
Laura O. , Laura S., Phil, Dor ian, Noboru,
Jo rge, and I made it across and found a mud
s lide to our le ft but chose to t raverse across
t he st ream aga in to t he fina l sect ion where
were no more mud banks but r iver .
We dec ided to t urn back to t he rest o f the
group and we made it back to t he c limb out
connect ion back into the Mountain Room and
d iscovered that t he water in t he st ream was
st art ed to flood rapid ly. Ever yone st ayed
ca lm and co llect ive as we a l l c limbe d out
back into the mounta in room and back into
the main walk ing passage.
We dec ided to look fo r t he Grand Canyon
Room, yet we were not able to find the r ight
passage lead ing to t he sect ion but rather we
made it to a breakdown room while on our
way to t he Spira l Room. We had a d iscuss io n
and dec ided to slowly turn back out of t he
cave so we could get t ime to eat , relax, and
get some s leep fo r t he next day.
As we made it back to t hrough the Back-
breaker and out o f t he cave, we got t he exit
and no t iced that a ll t he water fa l ls were f low-
ing wit h a beaut ifu l shimmer and unique
sound. There is so mething about cave water -
fa l ls t hat t ease t he imag inat ion as t o how
some o f t hese passages wit h sharp contours
have deve loped over mil lennia o f eros ion and
t ime. It is a pr ivi lege that we get to observe
the water works o f today that cont inue the
const ant and evo lving nature o f eros ion that
scu lpt amaz ing pathways to connect new geo-
graphica l sub landscapes o f our Midwest re-
g ion.
We le ft t he cave at around 10:30 and
ce lebrat ed a wonderfu l day wit h caver cheer
and good vibes.
- - Adam Haydock
The above photos of Sul l ivan’s Cave were
taken by Adam Haydock.
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MAY ’S AND K ING LEO
May’s and Januar y 20-21, 2013
King Leo Caves, Ind iana
Laura Oliver Noboru Sakabe
Chr is Parks Laura Sanga ila
Ken Redeker Tom Campbel l
In ce lebrat ion o f t he Mart in Luther King
Jr . ho liday and the Monday vacat ion day that
st at e workers rece ive, I dec ided that would be
a good t ime to go caving. Our group set out
fro m Chicago on that Sunday the 20 t h and
headed down to Bloomington, Ind iana.
May’s Cave
We arr ived in Bloomington around noon
and proceeded to meet Chr is Parks, our Ind i-
ana caving counterpart . The Chicago cohort
cons ist ed o f myse lf (To m), Ken Redeker , No-
boru Sakabe, Laura Oliver , and Laura San-
ga ila .
I had made ar rangement s with t he land-
owner be fo rehand and he knew we would be
ons it e and to ld us t hat we could park by the
bar n and animals. As a s ide no te, I ’ve been
to ld not to ask permiss io n fo r t his cave
unless you’re rea l ly go ing. The landowner o r
at least t he caret aker (Mr. Orman) was ver y
k ind and s imply request ed a few pho tos fro m
the t r ip as he has never actually been in t he
cave, a po lit e request t hat I am happy to fu l-
f il l . As far as find ing the cave, we had a
rough map to t he park ing spo t . It was a lit t le
dece iving at fir st due to t he descr ipt ion o f
t he bar n and such that t he map leads yo u to a
Bloomington “subur b” wit h rather large and
nice houses. Could there be a barn and cave
here? Well, a ft er some s leuthing, we discov-
ered a long dr iveway that leads to t he back o f
t he houses and the “bar n” and park ing area
next to some horses. It ’s about a 10 -15 min-
ute walk fro m the cars t o t he cave which is
s it uat ed just to t he no r thwest . You could
a lso get access to t his cave from other park-
ing areas. As it was be low 32 degrees out-
s ide, t his wa lk was co ld.
The cave ent rance is beaut ifu l and soon
a ft er ent er ing you come to about an 8 - foot
water fa l l w it h a slipper y so mewhat broken
wooden ladder to ascend into the water fa l l.
We ascended and to ent er t he cave. This
cave is most ly smal l wa lk ing o r stooping key-
ho le passage with few turns. There is a small
st ream under foot at all t imes and you walk
upst ream away fro m the water fa ll. Small rat
ho le crawlways o ff t he main passage t end to
lead to small muddy enc laves about 4 feet
deep and 10 feet long. One such ho le is
marked wit h a bit o f rope fo r a hand l ine as
t he crawl is about 2 feet above your head.
This crawl in par t icu lar is s l ight ly wet , t ight
only at t he end, and leads to a smal l muddy
room. The main passage o f t he cave ends in
crawling passage that is t oo small t o pass.
The cave must have been heavi ly vis it ed
at one t ime because there is a lo t o f gra ffit i
present in t he cave. As it is c lose to a road
and ver y easy once you ascend the water fa l l,
I can imag ine this t o be a loca l secret par ty
spot . On the br ight s ide, t here were many
bat s in t his cave. I est imate t hat in t his small
cave we probably encountered eas ily we ll
over 100 bat s.
In tot al we were underground in t his cave
about 2 hours. The walk back to t he cars was
freez ing as t he t emperature had dropped and
the warm sun o f t he aft ernoon was no longer
out . By the t ime we got back to t he cars, our
cave c lo thes were frozen. Next t ime, I sug-
gest br ing ing your change o f c lo thes t o t he
cave ent rance. There is p lent y o f room to
change there.
K ing Leo Pit Cave King Leo Pit Cave is locat ed about two
hours south o f Bloo mington in t he Orchard
Ridge area o f t he Crawford Upland. The en-
t rance p it is a 47 - foot drop locat ed on the
s ide o f a gent ly s lop ing r idge a short walk
fro m the parking area. Even though this was
Ken and mine’s second t r ip to t he pit to -
gether , it took just a lit t le bit o f searching to
f ind the ent rance aga in. Once we found it ,
Ken r igged the drop while I went to get No-
boru who was st il l o ff searching fo r t he en-
t rance. The p it was blowing war m a ir t hat
fe lt rea lly nice as t he ambient a ir t emps were
at or near freez ing. Need less to say, we were
a ll anxious to get into t he warm cave. No-
boru was the first to descend, t hen myse lf,
and fina lly Ken. Ken had st ayed back to snap
some pho tos o f t he descent . I t hink he got a
pho to o f me descend ing the p it t hat is ident i-
ca l t o one he took the year be fo re.
I ’ve read that t he 47 - foot drop can be fr ee
c limbed us ing a be lay o r hand l ine, but I
don’t recommend it . There were lo t s of bat s
hang ing in t he p it and we were carefu l no t to
d isturb them. I mmediat e ly a ft er t he ent rance
p it , t here is a ser ies o f domep it co mplexes
which requ ire you to first sk ir t a smal l p it
be fo re ent er ing a smal l do med room. We
rest ed in t his do med room befo re ent er ing the
240- foot crawl. The crawlway in King Leo’s
is actua lly a t ight canyo n passage with sev-
era l leve ls. You need to st ay at t he top o f t he
r idge and most ly be lly crawl unt il yo u can
f ind the connect ion to t he main boreho le pas-
sage. The crawlway has a few twist s and
turns, but nothing too bad. There are no ex-
t remely t ight sect ions, but it ’s p lent y o f work
to crawl t hrough with maybe 1 -2 ft . ce il ings.
Once you reach the end o f t he crawlway,
which beco mes fa ir ly obvious that you are
no t go ing to be able t o cont inue crawling in
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front o f you, drop down to t he lower leve l. It
took us about 1 .5 hrs. to get to t his point in
t he crawl as we were navigat ing as we went
as to not miss t he c limb down (and I am a
s low caver /crawler . Noboru was eas i ly t he
fast est o f t he group. )
At t his po int , we went back just a lit t le ,
maybe 15 feet o r so to find a ho le where we
could r ig a hand line to he lp with t he c limb
up. Turned out we wouldn’t need it , but it
he lped menta lly. At t he bo t tom of t he crev-
ice, you can exp lo re just a lit t le crawling to a
s light ly larger room that you would think is
t he cont inuat ion o f t he cave, but it isn’t .
You need to go back to where you drop down
and find a connect ion in t he midd le leve l o f
t he canyo n ( there is a smal l black ar row on
the ce il ing near t his po int ) . Pass t hrough the
connect ion and drop down to a short hands
and knees crawlway. Aft er a short crawl, you
pop out into a huge beaut ifu l bo reho le.
Emerg ing fro m this crawl onto a breakdown
p ile , you can see that t he bo reho le runs in
bo th direct ions. The boreho le is about maybe
20 feet wide wit h ce i l ings rang ing fro m 15 -20
feet t all. At some po int s, t he ce iling is as
t all a s 40 feet . This passage is marked by
roof co llapse and scat t ered breakdown piles
and is about 2000 feet in tot al length. Aft er
t he crawl, I found this large boreho le to be
ver y reward ing.
From the ent rance o f t he bo reho le, you
can go in e it her d irect ion. To the no rth, t he
bo reho le goes about 1000 feet and ends in a
breakdown p ile . To the south, t he bo reho le
a lso cont inues fo r about a 1000 feet and ends
in a large bit o f flowstone and breakdown.
As we had a check in t ime to make, we were
a bit hurr ied to exp lo re t he bo reho le and then
exit t he cave o r at least make it out o f the p it
so t hat we could ca l l and check in wit h our
sur face contact . We d id no t plan fo r t he two
hour dr ive to get to t he cave fro m Blooming-
ton and had thus ly shor t ed ourse lves o f ex-
p lo rat ion t ime. We went no rth in t he bo re-
ho le f ir st which cons ist ed o f ver y p leasu rable
wa lk ing passage that a semi t ruck could dr ive
in i f it cou ld go over t he occas iona l break-
down p iles. Upon reaching the end of t he
no r th passage, we headed back down south in
t he bo reho le to see the flowstone at t he south
end. We reached the south end qu ick ly and
took some pho tos by the flowstone.
By the end o f t he pho to shoot , I was t ired
enough to fee l l ike head ing out even without
t he t ime crunch so we made our way back to
t he large breakdown p ile in t he midd le o f t he
bo reho le which connected to t he crawlway.
We t imed the crawl on the way back and it
took us 45 minutes to exit t he crawl and get
back to t he domepit co mplex next to t he en-
t rance. Once there, we took a break because
we knew we wou ld make it out on t ime to call
our surface contact . Aft er a br ie f res t , we
dec ided to frog out t he ent rance p it . It was
freez ing co ld out side and I was glad I had
le ft a stocking cap by the ent rance. We a l l
went back to t he car to change into war m
c lo thes and winter jacket s be fo re de -r igg ing
the p it . Upon subsequent ly returning to t he
vehic le a ft er de- r igg ing, a ll my gear (cave
su it and boot s) had frozen. We quick ly
bagged and threw the frozen gear in t he t runk
and st ar t ed the heat er fo r t he dr ive ho me.
King Leo Pit Cave is a ver y enjo yable
cave past t he crawl and wil l provide you with
3-4 hours o f caving fun.
- - Tom Campbel l
Top: Exit ing May’s Cave. Photo by Noboru
Sakabe. Middle: Noboru Sakabe begins his
descent into King Leo. Photo by Ken Rede-
ker. Bot tom: Tom Campbel l at the end of the
King Leo borehole. Photo by Ken Redeker.
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The fo llowing is a summar y o f grot to and
board meet ings over t he past t hree months, as
report ed by Secret ary Greg Schmit .
GR OT T O M EE T I N G , DE C E MB E R 12, 2012:
Officers present: Ra lph Ear landson, Phil
Go ldman, Tom Janas, Greg Schmit , Fred and
Sandra Schumann. The Cha ir ca l ls t he meet -
ing to order at 8:00 PM with int roduct ions.
The December Speleonews is co llat ed and
mai led.
Photo Show and Tell: Three cand idat es o ffer
pho tography fo r review in a compet it ion pr io r
to t he bus iness po rt ion o f t he meet ing.
Board Member at Large: Announced 50%
off pr ice o f t he “Bat s” towel on d isp lay. Pins,
badges, and st ickers ava i lable a ft er t he meet -
ing.
Editor’s Report: The Ed ito r request s more
t r ip report s fo r publicat ion in t he Speleonews .
The next is sue wil l be fo r month o f March.
Submiss ions dead line wil l be t he end o f Feb-
ruary. Co llat ing wil l be at t he March member-
ship meet ing.
New Business: Grotto equ ipment invento ry is
d iscussed and reviewed.
The Grot to Board meet ing wil l be hosted by
Phi l Go ldman at his home in Mount Prospect .
The meet ing wil l be evening o f Januar y 2,
2013 and wil l be outdoors. Dress war mly.
Agenda wil l be t he Grot to Archive and other
bus iness as brought up by o fficers.
Announcements: A Holiday par t y wil l be
host ed by Fred and Sandra Schumann this
Saturday December 15th at t he ir home in
Pa lat ine. Member s encouraged to br ing a grab
bag g ift and so mething to share.
Wit h the except ion o f Bero me Moore Cave,
a ll Perr y Count y, Missour i caves wil l be
c losed this winter o r unt il fur ther no t ice due
to t he Whit e Nose Syndrome found in t he bat
populat ion there.
Histo r ic Su ll ivan cave t r ip is schedu le d fo r
Januar y.
Some members are p lanning a t r ip e it her to
Arkansas caves o r a Cave Research Founda-
t ion survey o f Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
A ver t ica l t r ip to TAG caves is p lanned fo r
March 23. The t r ip wil l no t inc lude Echo Pit .
A lecture ser ies and exhib it opens in t he mid-
d le o f March 2013 at t he Fie ld Museum,
downtown Chicago . The subject o f t he exhib it
is t he grot to cave pa int ings within Glasgow
caves.
Meet ing ad journed at 9:30 -PM.
GR OT T O M EE T I N G , JAN U A R Y 9 , 2013:
Officers present: Ra lph Ear landson, Phil
Go ldman, Tom Janas, Greg Schmit , and Fred
Schumann. The Cha ir ca lls t he meet ing to
o rder at 8:30 PM with int roduct ions.
The Vice Cha ir obtains t he floo r and present s
t he monthʼs program ent it led “Check List Es-
sent ia ls”. The program is an info r mal d iscus-
s ion amo ng members concer ning caving check
l ist s and t r ip preparat ion cons iderat ions . The
d iscuss io n is moderat ed by the Vice Cha ir .
Editorʼs Report: December Speleonews is
publ ished and ava i lable. The Ed ito r request s
ar t ic le and t r ip report submiss io ns fo r t he
March issue. Dead l ine wil l be t he last week-
end in Februar y.
Secretaryʼ s Report: December meet ing min-
utes are reviewed and approved.
Board Member at Large Report: New sweat
shir t and toboggan hat are ava ilable a ft er t he
meet ing. The hat is pr iced at $18.00.
Greg Schmit will host t his monthʼs Board
meet ing at his ho me in Brookfie ld. The meet -
ing wil l be t he evening o f Wednesday Januar y
23rd. Meet ing agenda wil l be t he Gro t to ar-
chive and the out reach program. Other bus i-
ness as int roduced by the Board.
Special Report: Allen Goodcave provides an
o ral report on the effo r t s o f t he Missour i re-
g ion Youth Group Lia ison Co mmit t ee. His
report is a summar y o f a web seminar
(webinar) provided by that commit t ee. S ince
the d isbandment o f t he North Country Reg ion
o f t he N.S.S. our reg ion has no coordinator
ass igned. The co mmit t ee is encourag ing our
Grot to and others to provide vo lunteer coor-
d inat ion o f programs like youth t arget ed cave
t r ips, youth direct ed presentat ions, and other
s imilar e ffo r t s. Grot to members are also en-
couraged to deve lop po licy on youth outreach
and caving info r mat ion as necessar y. Grot to
members and o fficers are asked to cons ider
vo lunteer ing as a reg iona l coordinator fo r our
Midwest region.
Announcements: Federa l Fish and Wild l ife
has dec lared the grot to scu lp in an endangered
spec ies. This animal has only been found in
Perry Count y Missour i. Because o f t his o rder ,
Perry Count y caves wit h t he except ion o f
GROTTO MINUTES SUBMITTED BY GREG SCHMIT
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Berome Moore Cave, wil l be c losed unt il fur -
ther not ice.
A rope pract ice sess io n wil l be host ed by Phil
Go ldman. Time and dat e to be announced on
Facebook and Yahoo mai l.
A t r ip t o Salt s Cave is p lanned fo r Januar y
26th. A Cave Research Foundat ion survey
t r ip is p lanned fo r Februar y 18th. A t rip to
“T AG” is p lanned fo r e it her March o r Apr i l.
A “First Timer” cave t r ip to Berome Moore
Cave is p lanned fo r lat e Apr i l. A t r ip t o Co ld
Water Cave is p lanned wit h dat e and t ime to
be announced. Missour i MVOR is t he fir st
weekend in May. Vo lunteers are requested fo r
t he “Over - t he-Edge” event at t he Wit t Hotel,
Downtown Chicago , on May 5th.
An e ffo r t to dive the unexp lo red sump in
Buddha Cave is in t he works. A connect ion
between Buddha and Chr ist ian Caves is to be
revis it ed.
Trip Reports: Boy Scout t r ip in Bucknerʼs
Cave, and Wayne’s Cave (Phi l Go ldman)
The Cha ir ad jour ns t he meet ing at 10 PM.
B OA R D ME E TI N G , JA N U A R Y 23, 2013:
Officers present: Ra lph Ear landson, Phil
Go ldman, Greg Schmit , and Fred Schumann.
Board meet ing agenda and d iscuss ion is cen-
t ered on invento ry and d ispos it ion of t he
grot to archive. The archive is current ly at
Fredʼs p lace o f emplo yment and await ing fur-
t her dec is io ns on it s future.
Officers present engage in a genera l d iscus-
s ion on opt ions and procedure. Officer s and
members present agree to send our invento ry
l ist ing a lo ng with it s index to other int er -
est ed grot tos. We will t hen wait fo r a re-
sponse. I f list ed grot tos ind icat e t hat t hey
want t he mater ia l, t hen we wil l post t hose
it ems to t he request ing grot to organiza t ions.
I t is expected that t he request ing o rganiza-
t ions wil l pay the post age and hand l ing cost s.
Officers open d iscuss io n on out reach po licy.
The subject o f t his d iscuss io n can be found in
t he web seminar report submit t ed by Al
Goodcave at t he Januar y 9th membership
meet ing. The seminar it se l f is a report fro m
the Missour i Reg ion Youth Group Lia ison
Commit t ee. No mot ions o r dec is io ns are made
a ft er t he fi ft een minute d iscuss io n.
Officers open br ie f d iscuss io n on poss ib le
cand idat es fo r nominat ion and e lect ion in
May.
Officers open and then defer d iscuss io n re-
gard ing Speleonews publ ishing.
- - Respect fu l ly submit t ed
Greg Schmit , Secret ary
10 YEARS AGO IN THE SPELEONEW S
On Saturday, March 15, 2003, long - t ime Cave
Research Foundat ion cavers Rick Toomey and
Elizabeth Wink ler were marr ied at t he CRF
Hamilton Valley center , out side o f Mammoth
Cave Nat iona l Park. Rick and E lizabeth now
l ive in Tucson, Ar izona, where Rick has been
a Cave Resources Spec ia l ist at Kartchner
Caverns fo r t he past two years.
Jenny and I actually ar r ived at CRF on Fr i-
day, and the fest ivit ies were a lready in fu l l
swing. This was the "rehearsa l d inner " and
bache lo r par ty ro lled into one, and ther e was
p izza and other goodies. In add it io n to us,
WCG was represented by Fred and Sandra
Schumann, and Alan Wellhausen. Former
grot to member Kr ist e Lindberg, now o f
Bloomington, Indiana, was a lso there.
By the t ime the 2 p.m. ceremony began, over
100 cavers, family members, and fr iends had
converged on CRF. The s ight o f so many
cavers dressed up in su it s was qu it e unusua l.
I t was a beaut ifu l day, wit h t emper atures
around 70 degrees. The ceremony it se lf was
s imple and last ed around 20 minutes. The
best man was Rick Olson, a cave natura list
fo r Mammoth Cave, who m I 've known in CRF
fo r over 15 years.
Fo llowing the ceremony, t he rows o f cha irs
were moved, and t ables were set up for t he
recept ion. I t was cat ered by none o ther t han
WCG's Alan Wellhausen, who has been cook
fo r many CRF exped it ions. The food, which
inc luded kabobs, was exce l lent . Champagne
f lowed free ly, and par t ying cont inued into
the night .
The next day. Rick and E lizabeth and the
wedd ing par ty go t into t he ir finest once aga in
fo r some actua l in-cave wedd ing pho tos in
near by Diamo nd Caver ns. A good t ime was
had by a ll. Congratu lat ions to t he newlyweds!
(Apr il 2003)
20 YEARS AGO IN THE SPELEONEW S
(The fo llowing is fro m a report by Russ ian
caver Evgeni Ananiev, who vis it ed and caved
in t he U.S. in October and November 1992
and st ayed wit h severa l WCG members. - -ed . )
I t began with the beaut ifu l o ffer o f Henr y
Gilsdor f t o vis it New Mexico . He inv it ed me
to go caving at Car lsbad Caver ns Nat io na l
Park, and maybe Mexico wit h one t eam fro m
Colo rado . However , t he day befo re he ca lled
Harvey Du Chene in Denver and go t t he pr in-
c ipa l agreement fo r my par t ic ipat ion in t his
SPENT CARBIDE
Vol . 53 The Windy Ci ty Speleonews, March 2013 17
t r ip . I t was a unique chance, and I dec ided
to go. When I took part in t he WCG Hallow-
een par ty I heard many good words about
Lechugu i l la Cave fro m Kathy S isson, and I
sure could no t keep my ba lance.
Four people t ook an act ive par t in my p repa-
rat ion fo r t his t r ip: Henr y, David Anderson,
John Hein and Jack T ho msen. T hey he lped
me with gear , shoes fo r caving and food…
We t rave led in Harvey’s t ruck a lmo st 12
hours be fo re ar r iving at Car lsbad Caver ns
Nat iona l Park on November 7 at night . I fe lt
an ag it at ion because I never went caving to-
gether with Amer icans in an unknown cave,
t he first be ing Car lsbad Caver n, be fo re. The
f ir st st range thing fo r me was the way which
things were done. Our caving began with
descend ing to 750-foot depth us ing the fast -
est descender - -speed e levato r! Okay, it ’s
Amer ica ! But aft er only 5 minutes o f wa lk-
ing, you are ins ide the beaut ifu l wild cave
with stone flowers o f aragonit e bushes and
o rgan music o f l imestone st alact it es and st a-
lagmit es. In t he case o f spor t caving this
cave isn’t d iff icu lt , ju st severa l p it s inc lud-
ing the 220- foot pit in t he st ar t ing po int o f
wild caving, but it is one o f t he mo st beaut i-
fu l caves I ’ve seen!
The main goa l o f our exped it io n was the
study and geo log ica l descr ipt ion o f survey
st at ions o f t he Far East part o f Lechugu il la
Cave. One o f t he mo st beaut ifu l p laces in
t he cave is, fo r sure, Nir vana and the fit ure
o f Buddha-- t he Pear l o f E mpero r’s T hrone
Room. Imposs ib le t o be lieve that t he only
creato r o f it is - -Nature! Sixt y miles o f vir -
g in beaut y: end less and unrepeatable. Frag-
i le aragonit e bushes, snow whit e gypsum
fo r ms, purp le l imestone st a lact it es and st a-
lagmit es, t he t hinnest se lenit e cr yst a ls. I t ’s
su ff ic ient fo r one o f t hem to make the cave
unique. I t ’s t oo much fo r a s ing le cave - - five
unfo rget t able days. (Februar y 1993)
30 YEARS AGO IN THE SPELEONEW S
A new organizat ion, Bat Conser vat ion Int er -
nat iona l, was recent ly est abl ished fo r t he
spec if ic purpose o f bat conservat ion. The d i-
recto rs are Dr. Mer lin D. Tut t le , who gave a
t alk on bat s at a WCG meet ing a few years
ago , and Dr . Rober t E. St ebbings.
Bat Conser vat ion Int ernat iona l came to my
at t ent ion, when I rece ived a f lyer in t he mai l
descr ibing the majo r t hreat s to bat s and what
t his o rganizat ion hopes to accomplish. Be-
s ide the we ll-known threat s o f d isturbance,
habit at dest ruct ion, and pest ic ides, t he f lyer
ment ions another t hreat . In t he t ropics many
large fru it . bat s are eat en by humans, c reat -
ing a lucrat ive t rade that t hreat ens bat popu-
lat ions.
While member ship does not inc lude a fancy
publ icat ion, it is de f in it e ly a worthy cause.
Regu lar membership is $25 per year , and stu-
dent memberships are $15. All member ships
are t ax deduct ible. (Februar y 1983)
40 YEARS AGO IN THE SPELEONEW S
(The fo llowing is fro m a report by Gar y K.
Soule on the commerc ia l izat ion o f Squ ire
Boone Caver ns, fo rmer ly known as Boone’s
Mill Cave. - -ed . )
I ment ioned so me info r mat ion on Squ ire
Boone Caverns, in t he southern par t o f Harr i-
son County, Ind iana, in a previous t r ip r eport
and thought t hat fur ther info r mat ion might be
most int erest ing. Wit h this in mind, I have
co rresponded with the owner and learned the
fo llo wing.
The cave it se lf is t o open in t he lat e spr ing o f
1973. Pr io r to commerc ia l izat ion, t he cave
had one low, water - fi l led, t rough- like en-
t rance. A new, higher ent rance has been
blast ed through 23 feet o f so lid rock. Aft er
go ing through about 125 feet o f wind ing pas-
sage, t he tour ist wil l ent er Recept ion Hall, a
chamber t hat is 120 feet across, 70 feet wide,
and 73 feet high. To cross t his chamber , I
underst and the co rporat ion is present ly bu i ld-
ing a 57- foot - long st ee l br idge that will be 50
feet above the chamber floo r . Lot s o f cascade
fo r mat ions and st a lact it es and st alagmit es are
in t his upper sect ion, and r imstone fo rma-
t ions are featured in t he lower sect ion. A
st ee l st a irway and cement wa lks will br ing
the tour ist to t his lower sect ion. Near t he end
o f t he tour , one wil l ent er t he Rotunda Cathe-
dra l, with a co lumn fo r mat ion st ret ching from
f loo r to ceil ing. The he ight is 80 feet , and the
fo r mat ion is c la imed to be 3 mill io n years
o ld. (Februar y 1973)
50 YEARS AGO IN THE SPELEONEW S
Discovered severa l years ago by members o f
t he Cent ra l Ohio Grot to, t he ent rance o f
Flut e Cave is locat ed among bou lders 200
feet south o f t he Third Ent rance o f James
Cave. The ent rance room was exp lo red and
mapped by COG in 1954 as a poss ible route
to t he “o ther” s ide o f Forty Fathom Pit in
James. But ne ither t he ir exp lo rat ions in Flut e
no r t he ir e ffo r t s in James per mit t ed them to
reach the “other” s ide o f t he p it .
Recent d iscover ies in James ind icat e t hat
Flut e is a par t o f t he main cave syst em on
Ba ld Knob. Wit h this in mind Bob Thren,
Herbe in and Herr exp lo red Flut e dur ing the
summer in 1962 while J im Rodemaker and
Ted Wil l mapped Raccoon Ramble in James
ant ic ipat ing a connect ion between the caves.
Both e ffo r t s d iscovered new cave but d id no t
est abl ish a connect ion. (Apr il 1963)
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