Thanks. That photo replicates an iconic older photo of the same passage,
except without the caver on rope. The Big Room, or Subway Tunnel, is one
of the largest passages in West Virginia. The normal route in is a
160-foot rappel near a waterfall (named Suicide Falls because of deaths
when people rappelled it directly in the old days).
Mark M
On 2019-09-03 17:20, Barb wrote:
Wow! Awesome photo.
Barb and Don Coons
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On Sep 3, 2019, at 4:26 PM, mmin...@caver.net wrote:
Well, since you asked, last weekend Zeb Lilly and Brian Williams
connected McClungs Cave to Maxwelton by diving an intervening sump.
The resulting Great Savannah System is 40 miles long. Another cave
called Ludington is very close to connecting and will add another 9
miles. So, there will soon be another 50-mile-long cave on the books.
Cass is one of my project caves. The historic entrance has been closed
for years, but we now have a backdoor at the far end near the
downstream sump. (A through trip would be possible, but has never been
done that I know of.) We resurveyed Cass several years ago and made
several significant new discoveries. Bob Zimmerman published a
monograph on the cave in 2011: <https://www.wvass.org/>, but it is
already out-of-print. Cover photo attached. That is not the classic
drop near Suicide Falls, but rather a new drop from a passage accessed
by bolt climbing. The main passage is about 100 feet high. Terry
McClanathan is on rope and I'm holding the flash.
Mark Minton
mmin...@caver.net
On 2019-09-03 13:23, David wrote:
In 2000, I had the unique opportunity to go on a recreational caving
trip into Cass Cave. That trip was one of the most fun ever. (
But only to learn two weeks later, that one of the cavers on the trip
had later had a heart attack and died [ Sanders ? ] )
While in the area, I visited entrances to several caves.
I could only wonder what was below and the undiscovered passages
remaining there, as the potential for digging seemed enormous -
breakdown blocked passages, airflow, sumps, subterreanean
resurgencesc, springs etc.
What a wonderful place for a caver to live.
It will be exciting to someday hear the news of any connection
between
two caves.
D.L.
<WVASS Monograph 4 Cass.jpg>
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