Photos

(photos taken by Barry Horner, Rocky Parsons, Devin Kouts, George Dasher, Jeff Stutler, Doug McCarty)

 

 

Cave Entrances and Features

 1.  Blue Pot (with Barry Horner)

 2. County Line (with Ralph Hubbard)

 3. County Line Closeup

 4. Threns Hole  

 5. Kuntzville Hollow

 6. Natural Bridge 

 7. Natural Bridge Closeup

 8. Shavers Mountain (with Rocky Parsons)

 9. Shavers Mountain 

 10 . Frosted Ash (with Richard Hand)

 11. Ginger Root

 12. Ginger Root Closeup

 13. Mint Spring Resurgence

 14. Mint Spring Cave  #1  (with Ralph)

 15. Mint Spring Cave #1 Closeup  (with Ralph)

 16. Mint SpringCave #2

 17. Leaf Bottom Sink (with Doug McCarty)

 18. Leaf Bottom Sink (with Bill Good)

 19. Insurgence below Leaf Bottom

 20. Insurgence below Leaf Bottom Closeup

 21.  Ralph's Sinkhole

 22.  Cripple Cave (with Jeff Stutler)

 23. Cripple Cave Closeup

 24.  Ramps Cave

 25.  Jumble Sinks

 26.  Jumble Sinks Closeup 

 27. G4

 28. G3

 29. G2 (with Rocky and Bill)

 30. Panther Camp Cave Dig

 31. Panther Camp Entrance (with Doug)

 32. G1 (with Rocky and Barry--the red arrow points to Panther Camp Cave)

 33. Three Springs Resurgence

 34.  Three Springs Run Cave (with Barry)

 35. Three Springs Run Cave #2

 36. Three Springs Cave #3

 37. GROSS Grotto Quarry Cave (with Jeff and Barry)

 38. GROSS Grotto Quarry Cave Closeup

 39. Four Point Cave (with Barry)

 40. Burke's Dig

 

Photos from Panther Camp Cave

1. Rocky  and Bill by the entrance.

2.  Rocky in the sloping entrance passage.

3. Doug surveying in entrance slope

4. Rocky and Bill in the first room.

5. Rocky, Bill and Richard in first room

6. Bill and Richard Stutler in the first room. 

7. Bill in the muddy crawl.

8. Rocky in walking passage.

9. Bill doing the first drop.

Second drop and the mesa

10. Jeff setting bolts at the second drop.

11 .Jeff doing the second drop.

12. Jeff in the room beyond the drop.

13. Curious Folding in the bedding plane

14. Doug sketching on the mesa

15. Formations

16. Rocky surveying off the mesa into the high lead

17. Bill climbing the second drop (taken from breakdown beside the mesa)

18. Doug on the breakdown and Bill climbing in the background

19. Rocky climbing out

First side lead

20. Bill in the first tight fissure

21. Barry's view into the second fissure  looking into virgin cave

22. Doug surveying beyond the second fissure

23.In the dome room looking back in the direction of the second fissure

24. Doug in the dome room

25. A spike at the bottom of the smaller dome Barry is about to climb

26. Barry chimneying up a smaller dome and then climbing into a high lead

27. Doug sketching in dome room

28. Barry coming back out the first tight fissure

 

Photos from January 2006 G1 dig

1. Barry at dig

2. Rocky and Barry

3. Bill going down for the squeeze in

4. Bill in the hole handing rocks to Rocky

5. Bill trying to wriggle through under a low-hanging rock

6. He pops through

7. He's in.

 

Photos from November 2002 dig in sink near Alpena (photos by Devin Kouts)

1. Barry digging/Rocky supervising 

2. Barry with Thor

3. Rocky looking at cave

4. Rick and Barry in the room

5. Rick Royer digging

6. Rick, Rocky and Barry

7. Pit behind the barn

8. Rick at lead

9. Rick in cavelet

10. Resurgence

 

Photos from August 29, 2003 (OTR)

1. Mist in Three Springs Run

2. Karen Wilmes and Barry Horner outside Three Springs Run Cave

3. Barry by Three Springs Run Cave

4. Bones in Three Springs Run Cave

5. Karen Wilmes in Four Point Cave

6. Rick Wagner in Four Point Cave

7. Barry Horner in Four Point Cave

8. Randolph County borehole

9. Karen Wilmes surveying in Four Point Cave

10. Karen Wilmes surveying in Four Point Cave

 

Photos from Shavers Mountain Cave

1. Barry rigging the cable ladder

2. Rocky coming down the cable ladder

3. Rocky digging

4. Ralph rappelling

 

Miscellaneous Photos

1. Bill getting suited up

2. Rocky heading toward Gnger Root

3. Bill and Jeff near the cabin

4. Barry by odd bedding plane fold near Two Springs

5. Rocky, Barry and Bob Alderson by Ralph's sink

6. Ralph setting dye trap

7. Rocky hard at work

8. The CCC Cabin

9. Barry and Rocky in snow by GGQC

10. Rocky and Bill in the snow on the road

 

Annotated photos from Two Springs Ridgewalk November 2004 (photos mostly by George Dasher)

 

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