Caves, Caving and Hiking

Caves & Caving and hiking.

Not much caving this year because of wns.

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Hiking at Crockett Springs near Shawsville

Fun trip to Crossroads Cave with Susan Burr, Carl Cornett, Pat Sims, Dave Socky, Chris and Doug Feller.

Bottom Creek Gorge hike. Carl Cornett, Larry Moses, Aaron Moses, Susan Burr, Randy Michael and Doug Feller.

Randy and I hiked up Mill Creek out of Narrows, VA. We got the idea from Rick Shortt. Nice stream and waterfall.

Checked out Black Forest Pit and Hiked Cold Mountain Trail.

Susan, Randy and Doug on hikes to Peaks of Otter and to Price Mountain and Sulphur Spring trail 5.5 mile loop.

Randy, Pat, Susan and Doug hiking the 7.3 mile loop.

Randy and I hiking to waterfalls in the Smoky Mountains.

We had to dig logs out of the entrance to get in but the water level was actually down despite all the rain in the past week.

Susan Burr, Randy Micheal, Pat Sims and Doug Feller hiked the Iron Ore and Roaring Run Trails.

Brian Williams led canoe trip down the Smith River

Matt Lair, Dave Socky, Pat Sims, Susan Burr, Carl Alls and Doug Feller did the North Passage in Scott Hollow. It was almost a 7 hour trip.

Bob Alderson, Dave Socky, Alan Staton and Doug Feller did a bat count at Rufe Caldwell Cave.

March Grotto trip was a hike to the Devils Marbleyard.

Boy Scout trip to Tawney's Cave

Carvins Cove Hike

Randy Micheal and I hiked up the new Read Mtn. trail on new years day.

Grotto trip to the Big Slit section of Porters cave.

Phil Lucas gave us a tour of his own Water Sinks Cave.

We helped Cox Cable with a cave program.

Cole Frantz took Randy and I up in her glider.

This includes pictures of the Paxtons Cave Trip on 9/20/2008.

Another fun trip to Grapevine Pit.

The yearly girl scout - caving trips have dwindled down over the years from over 20 scouts to just 2 scouts this time - Jenny Feller and Caryn Martin.

Fun trip in one of my favorite caves.

Greenbriar County W-VA. Cavers: Carl Cornett, Todd Martin, Aaron Moses, Pat Sims, Susan Burr, Amy Faub and Doug Feller.

Franklin Pit, Parsons Cave, Blowing entrance to the Omega System, Spurlock Cave, Baileys Pit, Caines Cave and Millers Cave. Article at: http://blueridgegrotto.org/dump/dump062008.pdf on page 32.