Participants (riding with Rick)
Rick Hines
Jim Cooley*
Julie Swetnam*
Shannon Robinson*
Jay Kennedy*
Nick Kennedy*
Jamie Euliss
Rita Worden
Martin Carmichael
Jeff Page
Randy Bruegger
Greg Fry
Summary:
We finished anchoring the demo/practice cable to the silo floor and finished the installation of a waterproof LED light in the basement that was started on the prior work day. We got started on the installation of a new LED fixture in the silo. We repaired the roof of the school by replacing the torn section of the rubber roofing with a new 11’ by 12’ section of EPDM rubber. Jamie delivered a plaque made to honor Chris Danuser, Greg Fry and Ron Jaeger. We moved the picnic table and a steel wood rack to the Silo. The big effort was prepping the sky crapper for a move across the road to our land north of the silo. After cross bracing the sky crapper Greg Fry picked it up with his tractor and moved it to its new home. As we finished cleaning up and loading up Jay led Nick down the ladder for his first view of Carroll Cave. read more
The 2019 annual members meeting of the Carroll Cave Conservancy took place on 27 July 2019 at the Mid-County Fire Protection District station in Camdenton, Missouri. The meeting was called to order at 13:05 by President Rick Hines.
Trip report by Tony Schmitt
Participants:
Dan Lamping
Joe Sikorski
Derik Holtmann
Josh Hafner
Jeremy Weih
Josh, Derik and I arrived at the backdoor entrance around 3:45pm. We immediately started rigging the hole. Recently we have started rigging the hole a little different. Concern over the strength of the welds on the wall of the silo has lead us to start rigging with a figure eight on a bight with carabiner to the stainless hasp under the rescue hole. We then tie a butterfly with a large loop to the old eyelets welded to the wall. This allows for the rope to fall basically down the center of the shaft. We rappel in and climb out using our Croll on our frog systems as a safety while climbing the ladder. On camp trips such as these, we rig a pulley for hauling camp packs out at the end of a trip. We use a truck to slowly pull the camp packs up the hole. This works out very well, and is tremendously better than trying to haul heavy camp packs after several days under. read more
Project manager: Bob Lerch Trip purpose: Survey Areas of Cave visited: Convention Hall Trip participants: Dan Lamping, Bob Lerch, Joe Sikorski Entry Time: 7:30 PM Exit Time: 2:30 AM
Report written by Dan Lamping:
We went into UL2 to fix a blunder in the Land B4 Time survey, as side passage off UL2 that connects to Convention Hall. This was bad data at tie-in from years ago. There’s some pretty tough and demanding passage to negotiate the whole B4 loop. Both Joe and I having been there, but coming from the other way, had forgotten the climbs and tight meanders in the passage. It was tough enough going in that we considered heading out via Convention Hall, but the climbdown, which we’ve gone up before, was a bit too exposed and slick to try coming down. We reshot the bad survey shot and left. We went back out the way we came, which was easier than going in. We completed this and fixed another blunder further up the passage. This all in support of cartography for the U1 Sheet.read more
Dedicated to the study, conservation and preservation of the Carroll Cave watershed.
