It is not the first time Neversink froze. I was in Alabama the winter of
1983-84. There was a hard freeze that lasted for days. I remember walking
up on Stephen's Gap and globe of ice covered branches around the entrances.
So much ice had accumulate on the rope from the night before that we could
not haul it and to rig a hauling system to lower the rope to the lower
entrance and pull it out. I remember Buddy Lane gardening the ice off the
wall of Valhalla and then making the rope sing. That summer one two cavers
were integrated into the rock, when the roof of alcove we all used to
protects us from any rock dislodge by climbers collapsed on them. Some
time it is not the freeze but the thaw that kills. And, yes, I remember.
While writing this e-mail, I traveled to the Southeast Cave Conservancy web
page. Steve Hudson, the owner of PMI, has died. No better friend to
cavers. No better caver.
Josh
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:03 AM, scott grimes scottgrime...@gmail.comwrote:
A fellow texas caver Rachel Saker, (from the aggie grotto) also dropped
neversink during the big freeze in alabama, I'd expect her to post pictures
to facebook sometime soon. Very cool looking!
scott
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:53 PM, jerryat...@aol.com wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2539778/Alabama-cave-freezes-time-explorers-discover-hundreds-glistening-ice-stalagmite.html?ITO=1490ns_mchannel=rssns_campaign=1490
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