Trip date: 2020-02-15 Project manager: Rick Hines Trip purpose: Site Work and MCFPD Site Visit Areas of Cave visited: Campground Trip participants: Shannon Robinson, Martin Carmichael, Krista Bartel, Tim Delk, Kellen Delk Entry Time: 10 am Exit Time: 3 pm
The trip report: Krista Bartel, Martin Carmichael and I, spent the day Saturday working on the SkyCrapper. The goal was to place it up on bricks and attach the steps. It is now operational. Despite it being frozen to the ground, we figured it out. Our concern is that it will settle this spring so we made the steps self-supporting to prevent damaging them or the SkyCrapper. Many thanks to Krista and Martin for changing there “Fun” plans at the last minute to work on a shit house.read more
Participants – Bill Gee (trip leader)
Seth Colston
Kristen Godfrey
Hou Zhong
Morgan Carson
Time in – 9:40am
Time out – 7:10pm
Areas visited – Carroll Passage to the Mountain Room
The normal annual bat census trip in Carroll Cave is run in late October. Last year (2019) the trip almost did not go due to lack of participation. We wound up doing a partial trip with only three people. That trip only went as far as the Lunch Room. We documented the state of the guano gauges but did not get to count any bats.read more
Participants – Bill Gee (trip leader)
Seth Colston
Tyler Skaggs
Kristen Godfrey (trip leader)
Martin Carmichael
Ginny Friedrich
Rebecca Carpenter
Micah Bogart
George Tengelread more
The Carroll Cave Stream Flow Project is complete for 2019. The file linked at the bottom of this post contains all of the raw data, the processed data and full year graphs in both PDF and JPG format.
The data shows two major floods in the cave. One was in early May and the other in early June. The May flood reached just over 8 feet in Thunder River at the ladder, with almost 18 feet below Thunder Falls. The June flood reached about 3 feet at the ladder and 13 feet below Thunder Falls.read more
Project manager: Jim Cooley Trip purpose: Privately owned cave surveys Areas of Cave visited: Campground Trip participants: Jim Cooley, Bill Gee, Ken Grush, Seth Colston, Ginny Friedrich Entry Time: 12/20/2019 Exit Time: 12/23/2019
Cooley, Gee and Grush arrived before dark, Colston well after dark on Friday, 12/20. Ginny arrived 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning. We camped for up to three nights. Cooley replaced locks on the road gate and the silo. Both locks are set to the same combination. All the locks were lubed and some penetrating oil was left in the silo for future lock maintenance. read more
Dedicated to the study, conservation and preservation of the Carroll Cave watershed.
