Check out Fort Stockton to Van Horn, Texas 118+ miles
On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Mike Flannigan wrote:
Ah - the western states. Where the concept of
distance has a whole different perspective. If
somebody from NV tells you something is a pretty
good trek, you better listen.
Straight-line distances from Ely:
Ely to Baker Creek System - 39+ miles
Ely to Whipple Cave - 51+ miles
Ely to Leviathan Cave - 105+ miles
Mike
On 11/2/2012 1:49 PM, texascavers-digest-h...@texascavers.com wrote:
I started caving in Nevada and I can attest to the arid climate and
also low evening temperatures.
On a brighter note a number of of caves near Ely directly
correlate to to several Texas classics for example:
Baker Creek System - This is the longest cave system in the state
of Nevada, it is a river cave with an awesome mud slide and
scalloped walls to admire. Aka Honey Creek.
Wipple(sp?) - this cave is a great introduction to verticle caving
with a short (-150ish) entrance drop and a long borehole passage
that extends roughly halfway through the cave until it nearly
chokes and then the going gets a lil tougher. Aka Deep & Punkin
Caves.
Leviathan - This cave is a monstrous collapse and is also a
significant hike to get to and thinking about it I do not know of
any caves in Texas which can really compare... On another note
while hiking up to this cave you pass a large bomb which did not
detonate when dropped by the airforce.
I make no claim that these caves will be open and or advertised
during the Ely Convention I just thought I would give you all am
idea that there is definitely a reason to get underground at this
convention.
Herman
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