Participants – Bill Gee George Tengel Shawn Paxton Rebecca Carpenter Josh Hutchinson Kent Melchiors
Time in 9:15am, Time out 3:45pm
This is the annual summer trip to download data from all of the data loggers in the cave. The loggers only hold about 7 months of data, so we visit them every 6 months or so.
I drove to the silo campground Friday afternoon, arriving about 4:00pm. After parking the camper, I started the lawn mower. The grass was not all that high except right nround the camper. I mowed in front of the silo, around the picnic table and around my camper and truck. I also ran a string trimmer. My string trimmer is a small battery-powered device that just does not have the power to deal with tall grass such as what is under the picnic table.read more
The Stream Flow Project is complete for 2020. The ZIP file linked below contains all of the raw data along with graphs.
There was only one major flood in Carroll Cave during 2020. That flood occurred on 12 January. The stream level at the ladder reached about 12 feet, and below Thunder Falls it reached almost 21 feet. Other minor floods happened throughout the spring, and there was one minor event in October.read more
Participants – Bill Gee (Trip leader) Krista Bartel Martin Carmichael Kayla Heady Sandra Galloway
Time in – 9:15am Time out – 2:45pm
Areas visited – Carroll Passage, UL2, Convention Hall, Thunder Falls
This trip was the annual data logger collection trip. The goal was to download all data from every logger, and to change the battery in the rain gauge logger.read more
Carroll Cave data logger and rescue cache inventory
Permit numbers 2008-01 and 2007-02
Data logger participants – Seth Colston Kristen Godfrey Kayla Rosen Kayla Heady Martin Carmichael Tyler Skaggs Melissa Shippy
Rescue Cache inventory – Jay Kennedy Nick Kennedy Rita Worden Bill Gee
This trip was originally planned to be just a data logger service trip. The goals changed and evolved, especially in the two weeks leading up to the trip. Even on Saturday morning no one was completely sure who was going to be there and what the teams would be. By the time everyone got there we had three goals: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
Dedicated to the study, conservation and preservation of the Carroll Cave watershed.
