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Cave Digging’s Price by Carroll Bassett 25 31 DigCon Registration Cover Photo: Helms Deep Area by Ed McCarthy Helms Deep area in Middle Earth(WV) by Ed McCarthy Caves.com Interview with me how you got into surveying. cave maps in my text books and things like that. So when Miles said Devin Kouts Devin: That's sort of interesting. I I should survey these caves and January 24, 2003 caved basically from age 12 to 17 map them, it sparked a latent inter- with the PSC, and then at age 17, I est in me, in doing cave surveying Aaron: You cave mostly went off to college and the service, and cartography. So it was within with Potomac and you know, life, and getting a job weeks that he took me to Twisted Speleological Club (PSC). and everything. I was gone from Fissure Cave for my very first survey Yes? caving for ten years. I came back trip, and that's where I learned to into it at age 27. survey was in Twisted Fissure. I Devin: Mmm, hmm. guess I had a natural ability for sketch because I was sketching fair- Aaron: How did you get involved ly well by the end of the trip, and I with them? think it was just three months later that I basically took over the Twisted Devin: I got started with PSC when Fissure survey. Nobody else I was a boy, and my father was a seemed interested in exploring the caver and a member of the PSC. cave, so I stepped up to the plate He had gotten into it through a cou- and kind of led up the troops who ple of his friends and at about the were interested in spending time in age of 11, my dad started taking me there. to PSC meetings here in Arlington and we got into caving with that Aaron: And that's a Taylor Run proj- group of people and at the same ect? time we were also caving with a lot of D.C. Grotto people. There's a lot Devin: That is how the Taylor Run of cross fertilization between the two project got started. That was in clubs. So, that was back is the late October of '94. And it was a discov- seventies, say 1978. ery that Miles Drake and Doug Medville had made, that particular Aaron: Wow, you've been caving cave, but after just a couple of well over 20 years then, huh? months of surveying in there, they Well, I happened to be living in the were having difficulty continuing the Devin: Yeah, what's it, something vicinity of the PSC, where they have project, you know, getting back up like 25 years now? their meetings. So I went ahead and there. So, I was young and enthusi- got a hold of them, and started cav- astic and I decided I'll go up there Aaron: Wow, that's great. ing again. It was in the first couple of and keep surveying. I was able to months that I was hanging out with marshal enough interest amongst Devin: Yeah. my old buddy Miles Drake, who I other people to keep the survey had known as a kid and caved with going. So that was where I learned Aaron: Has most of that been in when I was a kid. to survey, and then it turned into a West Virginia and Virginia? very big survey project. We worked Miles and I had been looking around in Taylor Run for a period of seven Devin: Um, yeah, early on it was at some different new caves and years, and surveyed something just mostly in West Virginia and Virginia. doing a little ridge walking and stuff. over five miles of virgin passage I did a little stuff down in Chiapas a I had done some ridge walking on across probably a dozen different few years back. I went to Belize last my own and gone out and found a caves up there. year, and worked down there on cave that was relatively unknown to some very large cave systems that anybody, and it wasn't a large cave, Aaron: Yeah, that's a pretty amaz- are being surveyed. So, I've been maybe 150 ft, but it was unmapped. ing little pocket of caves. broadening my horizons a bit. I Miles said, "Well, you know, when haven't been able to get down to you find caves like that, you really Devin: Yeah, it's a great exposure TAG, though. I really want to do do need to survey them, and not just of limestone up there, above Gandy that. go play around, but record what's Creek in Randolph County and it has there while you're at it." much more potential to it. It's a little Aaron: Yeah, that's a fun place to difficult to work on because you go caving. That's for sure. O.k. Well, as far back as when I first got have to basically camp out when you Well, I know you through surveying into caving, I'd always been very get up there. It's fairly remote. It's interested in cave maps, and I used in a big cave in German Valley. Tell Continued on Page 5 to doodle in high school drawing Caves.com Page 4 very cold in the winter time. You they're doing Breathing right now, and now I'm trying to return the favor can't work up there between and Cassel Cave at the same time. to all the people who supported me December and May and, so it's pret- on that. I want to survey for them on ty rustic. There's a lot more poten- Aaron: And in almost every case their projects. tial for a lot more cave up there. they've found quite a bit more pas- sage. Aaron: What are some significant Aaron: How is it that there's so recent developments in the Highland much cave so high up on the moun- Devin: Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're County cave survey? I know there's tain? notorious for that - they do a very been a lot of work over the past cou- methodical job and survey in great ple of years. Devin: Well, it just works out that detail, and there are some very that's where the limestone was. It's experienced people there, so they Devin: Well, the Highland County not down in the Valley. It's basically really know how to push a cave and survey has focused a lot on the on the flanks of Middle Mountain. they've always come up with new Bullpasture Mountain. If you look at There's a large exposure of passage. the way Bullpasture Mountain lays Greenbrier limestone that runs along out, it is in a very good position and the length of the mountain and if you Aaron: And so do you go on some it has some good limestone under it look at a topo map of the area you of the projects with them? such that it could offer up quite a big can actually see some very large system.
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