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.
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.
The two files attached to this post give a summary of the Survey Project activity in 2019. One file is a summary of all data since the survey began, and the other is a report on 2019 activity.
Carroll Cave Conservancy 2019 Survey ReportAreas Visited – Carroll Passage to the Lunch Room
Time In – 9:30am
Time Out – 2:00pm
Participants – Bill Gee (trip leader)
Seth Colston
Hou Zhong
Permit number 1910-1
This was supposed to be our annual bat census trip where we count bats from the Lunch Room to the Mountain Room. One of the participants dropped out very early Saturday morning, leaving us no time to recruit a replacement.
Report:
CCC Annual Landowner’s trips into Carroll Cave
Observations and Lessons Learned
Four Fredericks, a local family that built our new road, and Danny Schupbach, a gentleman who provided great assistant during the construction of the shaft, and two of his friends saw Carroll for the first time. They made their trip to Thunder Falls, the Carroll Passage and Angel Pool Passage without a problem. They enjoyed their trip and were very complementary of our effort. Three other locals that had planned to participate were not able to make it this year.
