
Caves & Caving and hiking.
Not much caving this year because of wns.
Click on the yellow boxes to see the pictures...
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
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.
Pocahontas County West VA. Aaron Moses, Susan Burr, Pat Sims, Cole Frantz, John
Semones and Doug Feller.
Susan Burr, Carl Alls, Amy Faub, Paul & Melanie Stern, Chuck Waller, Sunny and
Doug
Trip report at:
http://blueridgegrotto.org/dump/dump052008.pdf on page 22.
Phil
Lucas led a great trip into his own Helectite Cave. Thanks Phil!
Caving Fun pictures were taken by Doug Feller, Aaron Moses, Rick Shortt and Carl Cornett.
From
old slides with James Wellman and Dave Socky. Cheryl Feller, Bill &
Miriam Cuddington, Dick Graham and more.
Randy Michael and I took my daughter Jenny and Sarah Perez to Paxtons Cave.
Caving club in the Roanoke area.
Header image taken in Helectite Cave. Picture
below taken by Aaron Moses at Pig Hole Cave.

Any comments? Email me (Doug Feller) at:
Salem, Virginia