| When: | 8/6/2005 |
| Where: | Grand Caverns, VA |
| Who: | drove up with Lisa Lorenzin |
| surveyed with Scott Wolquist, Lisa Lorenzin | |
| What: | 8.5 hours underground |
| went in around 11am; came out around 7:30pm | |
| 3 8" squeezes and a 30' drop with a cable ladder and rope to get to Kentucky | |
| BN survey |
Mud, mud, mud. Lots of mud. (Although Scott told us that is wasn't really muddy because we could still tell what color our coveralls were. Even so, it's the muddiest Lisa and I have been.)
Closed out 4-5 leads in the soutwest section (by finding that they didn't really go anywhere). Only surveyed 4 stations and probably <100'. Very interesting room, though, just to the left of the entrance to the southwest (or is it midwest?) section.
It was good that the trip was shorter than usual since Lisa had been sick about 36 hours prior to going underground, and she was bonking by the time we made it back out.
Josh and Aaron excavated some in front of and at the first squeeze. Really screwed up the floor in there so that it was much harder (couldn't slide) on the way out than on the way in. Not sure if it's worth going back through there. :(