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Cumberland Valley Caver Published By Cumberland Valley Caver Published by FRANKLIN COUNTY GROTTO An Internal Organization of the National Speleological Society Vol. 16, No. 2 June 2015 2015 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR MEMBERSHIP DUES Todd Feasley REGULAR (NSS MEMBER) $10 637 Greenfield Drive NON-NSS MEMBERS $12 Chambersburg, PA 17202 FAMILY MEMBERS $ 3 [email protected] LIFE (NSS ONLY) 20 x Reg (717) 977-9180 SECRETARY VICE-CHAIR TREASURER Pat Minnick Glen Sarvis John Boswell 14220 Blue Mountain Road 21 Helen Avenue 203 N. Locust Point Road Waynewboro, PA 17268 Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (717) 765-0521 (717) 766-5003 (717) 609-4673 MEMBER-AT-LARGE EDITOR MEMBER-AT-LARGE Don Arrowood John Boswell Gordy Ley 5522 Montgomery Church Road 45 Manada Creek Circle 34 North Miller Street Greencastle, PA 17225 Carlisle, PA 17013 Fairfield, PA 17320 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (240) 347-6318 (717) 386 -5397 (717) 642-8970 WEB SITE: www.karst.org/fcg Webmaster: Don Arrowood [email protected] Franklin County Grotto meetings are held the 3rd Monday of the month. The location is at “The Cottage Pub and Restaurant” at 572 Wayne Ave, Chambersburg, PA 17201. The meeting starts at 7:00pm. Both grotto caving trips and smaller individual trips are planned at these meetings. All members are invited depending on their ability to safetly participate. You must attend at least one vertical training session in order to participate in vertical trips. Visitors are welcome. Contact any of the above individuals for more information or email [email protected]. The Cumberland Valley Caver is published four times per year by the Franklin County Grotto PA. All cave related articles should be submitted to the editor for publication. The contents of this publication are not copyrighted unless previously copyrighted by the author. Material from this publication may be reprinted by other official organizations of the National Speleological Society without prior permission provided credit is given to the original author and this publication, and the article is not changed in any way. Other interested parties must request permission in advance. Franklin County Grotto actively participates in a newsletter exchange program. All exchanges should be mailed to: John Boswell, 45 Manada Creek Circle, Carlisle, PA 17013. Information regarding exchanges should be coordinated with editor so the exchange list can be updated. Cover Photo: Terry McClanathan in Lost World Caverns/Grapevine Pit. Foto by Filer. 2 Table of Contents From the Editor ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Hundred Foot Pits of West Virginia by Terry McClanathan ..................................................................... 4 An October Weekend in TAG by Terry McClanathan ........................................................................................ 17 Quotes of the Quarter …………………………………………………………………………………………..………20 See the entire newsletter in COLOR on the website http://www.karst.org/fcg/fcgnewsletters.htm From the editor: This issue is pretty much the Terry McClanathan Gazette. It consists almost entirely of Terry’s update to the big pits in WV and a trip to TAG. Terry – you are one busy guy and I appreciate you taking the time to submit your write- ups! There have been other very interesting trips this quarter – Elkhorn Mountain Cave, Sites Cave, VAR trips including one to a long-closed vertical cave with beautiful decorations, and trips to the classic pits of TAG. Unfortunately, nobody submitted any reports for any of these trips so you won’t be reading about them in this issue. As of now, there is still plenty of space for these reports in the September Issue. Please, Members! Just take a few minutes following a trip and jot down some notes about the trip. We all enjoy hearing about the exploits of our fellow Grotto members. You don’t have to submit a long, elaborately detailed work of literature…. Just a paragraph and a few photos can fill an entire page. So pretty please, with sugar on top…. Type something up. I'd like to thank Terry (and only Terry!) for his support in getting this issue out to our members and friends. ~ John Boswell, Interim Editor 3 Hundred Foot Pits of West Virginia By Terry McClanathan, NSS 12103 It’s hard to believe that nearly a decade has nearly 71 miles of mapped passages. Within passed since I last reported on the number of this labyrinth there exists a profusion of deep hundred foot pits in the state. The original pits and high domes. ‘96 article had 23 entries. Ten years later the Of the 64 hundred foot plus pits/domes in second article, printed in the April, 2007 issue of the West Virginia Caver, recorded an the state, 43 are in Germany Valley. Pits are increase to 34 hundred footers. At the not just increasing in number, they are also getting a lot bigger. Nine of the 43 valley pits conclusion of that (2007) article I stated, are over 200 feet, whereas ten years ago “Who can tell if the next decade will be as productive as the last was. Nothing would only three topped that figure. Incredibly four make me happier than rewriting this article of these are actually over 300 feet. No other state in the east, or maybe even the west, ten years from now with a whole lot of has more than three pits exceeding this additions.” figure. This certainly puts West Virginia in a Ecstatic would be a more appropriate term rather elite position. than merely happy for describing the feelings Seventeen of the pits in this report had to be I now harbor towards West Virginia big pits. During the past ten years the number has attacked from the bottom up, including increased from 34 to 64. If you include the seven of the nine that are over 200 feet. In addition, ten of the others were accessed number of as-yet-to-be-climbed, but verified to be 100 foot plus, pits, then the number of either directly or indirectly by some form of new hundred foot pits has more than aid climbing or aerial acrobatics. A core of skilled climbers and belayers have been doubled. To put this in perspective, even that mecca for deep pits in the U. S., TAG, unrelenting in the pursuit of unlocking the has logged less than twenty new pits over secrets of these lofty heights. This group includes Derek Bristol, Chris Coates, John 100 feet deep within the same time frame. Harman, Peter Johnson, Mark Minton, Aaron Within West Virginia, once again most of the Moses, Dave Riggs, Bill Stone, Bob Alderson, activity has been in Pendleton’s Germany Carl Amundson, Yvonne Droms, Gilly Elor, Valley. The accomplishments of GVKS cavers Nikki Fox, John Groh, Abby Hohn, Zeb Lilly, have been nothing short of astounding. New Pete Penczer, Vickie Siegel, Yuri Schwartz, caves have been discovered, opened, Victor Ursu, Scott Walquist, and Corey explored, and surveyed. Old caves have Hackley.1 Without the hard work and been expanded dramatically, and significant dedication of these individuals the list of connections have been made. Caves in the hundred foot pits in West Virginia would be valley presently boast greatly reduced, and there would be no verified 300 footers. 4 The logistics of including a pit as a hundred footnotes, I’ve just provided a short synopsis footer I discussed at length in the 2007 on each pit that was in that article. More article so I will not rehash that here. The one detail regarding these pits can be found in area that might warrant a bit more The West Virginia Caver, April 2007, Volume explanation concerns measuring domes. Ten 25, number 2, page 3. Most of the new years ago there were only two high domes, additions are my tapings. Where this is not and both had pretty obvious measuring the case I will so indicate. Mark Minton, Pete points at the top. With the inclusion of so Penczer, Aaron Moses, Carl Amundson, John many domes in the current list, and not all of Harman, Rick Royer, Chris Coates, and Nikki them having definite ceilings, the Fox have been especially helpful in providing termination point is not always clear cut. I me with information regarding the belayed for Aaron Moses near the top of discoverers, climbers, and belayers for many Echo Dome in Shoveleater. The dome simply of the big domes. narrows to a crack without any ledges. At present no caves outside of Germany Aaron bolted up as far as it took to record a hundred feet, but the walls continued Valley can lay claim to having more than one upwards, finally narrowing to impassibility. entry on the hundred foot list. A couple like Cass and Organ offer multiple rigpoints to Another example would be the recently completed Perseverance Dome in Hellhole. essentially the same place, but I would not Peter Johnson and Derek Bristol, upon their count these as separate pits. For purposes of this report I will be listing pits in Shoveleater return to camp after finishing the climb, reported it to be about 535 feet high. At the Cave (SEC) separately from those in Hellhole top of the pit is a large flowstone ledge (large (HH). All the big pits in SEC were discovered prior to its connection to HH. There are here meaning spacious enough to stand upright on, relatively flat, and wide). When currently sixteen pits/domes that have been Aaron and I taped it the next day we used dropped or climbed in HH. Shoveleater has ten. Memorial Day Cave (MDC) has thirteen the breakover at the ledge in the manner compliant with measuring most pits. We got (eight pits and five domes) that have been 526 feet. Add the nine foot ceiling height explored.
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