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Cave Area Caver Time Date *** Notes

2008
Sharps wv (us) vertcaver14 4hrs 1/12

Me, Maddie, Sierra, Danny, Jimmy. J.D.

Wow What a trip! We decided to take the kids on a trip to Sharps. Maddie, my daughter age 6 and Jimmys daughter Sierra age 10. Danny R. was with us and Jimmy S. also Jimmys son JD 21. It was Madddies 2nd cave trip, Sierras 3rd and JD's 1st. We shuttled the kids into the entrance and continued into the first room. We checked out the leopard print ceiling and went on to Halloween Hall. We took a short break here and ran into several other cavers. One fellow Alan was with a cave rescue team in the area doing a recreational trip with his relatives. Kool dude.. very friendly. We left Halloween Hall and continued to Mud City, Hollywood, mud henge, whatever ya wanna call it! Here we took several pics. anfd the kids played we ate and drank and headed to blackfish jct. Well on the way there we got Shall I say a little lost. JD was in the lead....(remember this is his first time in a cave)I and the other guys were tending to the kids, so we weren't paying much attention to where we were at. Near J18 and the formation room on the left is where I had had enough. The terrain was getting sketchy for the kids and I wasnt sure of where we were at....lack of paying attention on my part.(I've been in Sharps 15 times leading half)it was one of those times that shit just didn't feel right. I tried not to be an ass...and said" Whoever has the map needs to be in the lead the kids need to be in the middle." After a moment of silence we returned to mud city. On the way there we realized that at one point we were on the right track. Staying low and right by the formation room. We reached mud city and went to the waterfall from there. What a massive amount of water. Took some pics and headed out. What I've learned from this trip. Organization!!! It's ok to cave by the seat of your pants and and explore hardcore when you're with a group of experienced cavers. (this is how we usually roll!) But when there is kids and new cavers involved. Our time outside the cave explaining conservation and the "rules of Caving" We should pick a leader and decide on a line up goin through the cave and make sure everybody understands and accepts this. It was a lesson learned and a fairly good trip. Looking forward to an Explore Hardcore trip to Windy Run next weekend. Whitetrash Cavers unite!!!!!!!!

pinkys pit excursion pendelton co. (us) vertcaver14 1hr 1/6

me, wv caver, and john powell

We planned to go to Bowden this trip, but changed plans in the parking area @ Bowden. We wanted to do something Vertical. Keith got a new GPS so we decided to try it out go find Pinkys pit. After hours of hiking and treacherous stream crossings we found a pit. a small 20' er. This was not pinkys. JP rapped in and frogged out while Keith and I waited outside. Dead bottom pit. There were three more caves within 30' of eachother on this hillside, we checked them all. one worth mention, not sure of the name. A 50' pit with a pool @ the bottom dead bottom. I rapped in first, saw the pool @ the bottom and waited on a ledge accross from a narrow canyon passage. JP came down next, and went on down just above the pool changed over on rope and ascended back up and out. I exited and we headed back out, never to find Pinkys. @ the car we looked @ the topo and realized we were only a few meters from Pinkys. I think next time we will have a little more knowledge on the GPS and bring the topo and a compasss just in case!

Tumbling Rock Jackson County, Alabama (us) wvcaver 7 hrs 27/4

Rusty's Cave Dade Co. Georgia (us) wvcaver 5 hrs. 26/4

Cemetary Pit Dade Co. Georgia (us) wvcaver 7 hrs 25/4

Stevens Gap Jackson County, Alabama (us) wvcaver 6 hrs 24/4

Pipeside Pit Jackson County, Alabama (us) wvcaver 1 hr 24/4

Neversink Jackson County, Alabama (us) wvcaver 1 hr 23/4

Gourdneck Cave Marion County, Tennessee (us) wvcaver 6 hrs 22/4

South Pittsburg Pit Marion County, Tennessee (us) wvcaver 4 hrs 21/4

Rumbling Falls Van Buren County, Tennessee (us) wvcaver 8 hrs 20/4

Fanchlers Pit Tucker Co. (us) vertcaver14 5 hrs 18/2

Scott, Keith, John, Johnny

We all met at Super WalMart in Clarksburg around noon and headed to Tucker Co. After a few stops we were at the owners house. Scott went in and talked to the owner and got the ok to go on up.(Scott used to work for this guy) We suited up w/ vertical gear and headed for the entrance. At the entrance there were some remains of a skunk, the smell was just overwhelming! After a few minutes in the stink we had the rope rigged. Scott went in first clearing the pit on the way down passing logs up and out. John went down next and cleared the pit of logs entirely and repadded the drop. I was in next, nice drop. Keith was last in the hole. Once everybody was down we started back into the cave and soon were forced to a crawl. In some places you could've went high and stayed dry but there were lots of bats up high. Scott was just lovin' that water. I think he swam most of the way through the cave! Nice formations starting about half way in. We came to a really low water crawl, and of course Scott was right in there. Keith was to the right and moved a few rocks and gained dry passage(for a little bit)This popped us out in a nice room with a register up on a mud bank. Couldn't sign it though the contents were soaked. We were able to make out the first few pages. It was put there by the Mon. grotto. We assumed we were close to the end. Everybody was pretty beat and wet. Scott checked a passage low and back with the stream and it went but it was a tight wet crawl and we had plenty of that ahead of us on the way out. So we opted to exit. It took us around a half an hour to get back to the rope. John went up first, to a nice view of the last moments of the sunset. Keith was next. I frogged out. Then Scott. Big Thanks to Keith for going back to pull the rope. It was pretty cold on the surface. Keith and Scott headed back home and John and I went over the mountain to the Purple Fiddle for some food and music, then camped out near Olsen Fire Tower. Nice fire !!!!! Excellent caving trip!

Swaygo Pit Pocahontas County, W.V. (us) wvcaver 2 hrs 3/2

Roadside Pit Pocahontas County, W.V. (us) wvcaver 2 hrs 3/2

swaygo / roadside pit JohnPUncleRalph day 3/2

Keith(wvcaver),Johnny(vertcaver),scott and I

Johnny and I had backpacked up to big beechy falls on saturday w/ some of our backpacking friends(Brian and Steve) and hiked out on sunday feb 3. We had great weather, no rain/snow, no wind, not too cold......rare in winter in the mon nat'l forest. We then drove over to swaygo pit where keith and scott were waiting. They had camped there the night before and had already rigged the drop. The water was up slightly from the rain and snowmelt of the previous days, but we decided to go back into swaygo and explore the route thru the cave towards carpenters. Keith and I had been thru carpenters, all the way to the swaygo system and had to stop at the last waterfall drop in swaygo, having no way to go up without a rope rigged. Anyway, we did the swaygo entrance drop, went down the passage, keith rigged the second drop and began to descend. I told him to yell off-rope only if he wanted me to come down. The water was very loud and we were curious to as how wet the drop would be. As he went down, I started downclimbing down the last little drop so I could get on rope when keith was finished. I slipped a little and started to fall, saved only by a rock jabbing me directly in the left butt cheek....wow that hurt. I would've only fell about three feet to the bottom, but it was still a somewhat sketchy situation. After a short pause i decided i could still do the drop, if keith gave the signal. He then yelled,"off rope!" and signaled me to come down. I did the drop and as i neared the bottom, the waterfall just blasted me with water and if that wasn't enough, waist deep ice cold water awaited me at the bottom. Keith said the look on my face was "priceless" and somehow found much humor in this, and said he couldn't bear to enjoy the wonders of this drop alone. Guess its the thought that counts...lol. We exited the swimming pool and waded down the passage thru some low areas and into a couple standing rooms. Things looked low and really wet beyond this, so we opted for a return trip in late spring or early summer. Returning to the drop, keith went up while i held the rope back away from the falls. After keith was up, i got on rope and frogged up thru the blasting water, bouncing back and forth from wall to wall, passing thru the waterfall with every step in the frog. After we were up, johnny derigged the rope and we exited the cave. Only then could i honestly laugh at our short adventure. I'll be sure and visit again only during times of low water and during warmer weather. We changed clothes and headed for roadside pit. We had never done it, and so down we went. I very tight entrance, keith said it was like "sharps on rope". At the bottom we went down the passage and found the way to the big room..........we were suprised at the amount of formations. All were in nice shape, lots of nice colors too. After a short snack and a safety meeting, we headed out. Overall a great trip. Special thanks to scott, for staying up top and guarding the rope at roadside. Hope to find the way thru swaygo, would like to have two teams(one at swaygo, one at carpenters) rig ropes, pass in the middle of the cave, and pull ropes up as we exit. Might try to do this in May or june 08.

Swaygo Pit Pocahontas Co, WV (us) wvcaver 2 hrs 2/2

2007
Cave Mountain Cave Pendleton Co, W. Va Norwand 5/9

I am long time NSS member (#37530) who has caved extensively in Pendleton Co, but never made it up to Cave Mountain Cave in the Smokehole. Am planning trip in the fall once the cave re-opens and was wondering if anyone could provide directions to entrance? Thanks.

Sharp's Cave Pocohontas County, WV (us) Skaluva99 23/6

Wondering if anyone can help me here. I've heard a lot about Sharp's Cave in West Virginia and I'm planning a trip down there with some others. Can anyone tell me how to get there? I know its near Slatyfork, I'm assuming off of Rt 219? Appreciate any info, Steve

Shavers Mtn. Cave Randolph County, W.V. (us) wvcaver 2 1/2 hrs 3/6

Beaverhole Upper Preston County, WV (us) wvcaver 2 hrs. 14/4

Sharps Cave West Virginia (us) JohnPUncleRalph 3/4

4

After getting soaked in Dreen the day before, we decided to go to Sharps Cave for a trip on Sunday. Sharps is a fairly dry cave, and the water turned out to be very negotiable today. We accessed Halloween Hall via a small crawl and then headed down the main passage toward Blackfish Junction. After a short break, we accidently went down into the lower level just past the J18 jct. We traversed the hairy canyon ledge above the water and then had to walk in the water the last 50 yards to Blackfish jct. We then headed downstream and up the slick mudbang to the 1888 date. We all had trouble getting up onto the ledge. The water and the humidity was up and everything was extra slick. Derick had some trouble at first but then flew up the bank once he got up onto the ledge. We then headed out past the 1888 date and out to Reunion's Revenge. I sure is muddy out there but it's worth the trip. A pretty cool set of rooms near the end with a couple shady crawls leading off into the tightness. On the way back to the 1888 date, we had to make it back up a 15 or 20 foot mud bank. LJ had tied a couple straps at the top so we would have a hand line for the way back up. It's slick! I ran at the bottom and hit the bank full speed and barely managed to make it over the top w/o using the handline( although I had to kick steps into the mud as I ran up and also had to dig fingers into the mud at the top). We slid back down the chute to the steam and went back up to Blackfish jct. We then headed up the the upper level and out of the cave. It was a great trip and we were able to see some of the cave we hadn't seen before. Ralph and re-ralph had a great time. We just might make a caver out of Ralph after all.

Cave Mountain Cave Pendleton County, W.V (us) wvcaver 4 hrs. 31/3

Me, Diana, Johnny W, & John P.

My Cave Pocohontas County (us) JohnPUncleRalph 17/3

2 white trash cavers

Lost Johnny and I entered My Cave at about 330pm and made our way to the drop above the Dune Room. LJ rigged the rope and we rappelled down. What an awesome rappell that is! Not a very high free-drop, but a fantastic view rigging up and going down the slope to the drop. Big echoes in the room! After taking a break, we headed back into a little formation room and some other leads. We took some pics by the formations and headed back into the Dune room. We then decided we would go down the mud slope toward the stream and see how the waterfall was down the passage. At the top, LJ used his brain and decided it was unusually slick, way too slick to go down. I on the other hand did not use my brain, and started down the slope using a couple biners to stab in the mud. I took off zooming down the slope, almost skipping down the slope on my side. I was going so fast I remember saying "johnny!!!""" and I almost blacked-out. When I got to about where it levels off for a few feet, my heels hit semi-dry clay and skidded me to a stop. That was the scariest thing I've ever done. Once I regained my breath, I threw a mud ball down over the second slope toward the water. It hit the water just a few feet over the lip.....the passage was flooded! If I hadn't stopped at the ledge, I would have ended up in a large pool of water, and getting back onto the mud slope would've been almost impossible. I would have had to wait it out on one of two large rocks sticking up out of the pool, and wait for LJ to go back up the rope, pull it, go back down the passage into the dune room and then rig the rope at the mud slope and probably rappell down to throw me the rope. My poor decision almost landed me in a bad situation at best, and maybe a very dangerous one. I dug out my two mini-mags out of my pack to stab them into the mud going back up. LJ threw a strap down for a handline and when I made it close enough,he anchored in and helped me climb back out. Lesson learned - use caution on sketchy mud slopes! We ascended the drop, exited the cave around 10pm and ate some of Lost Johnny's darn good tacos back at camp. The next day we slept in a little, ate breakfast and went to Sharps for a short trip.

Dreen Cave West Virginia (us) JohnPUncleRalph 3/3

4

Lost Johnny, my nephews Derick"ralph", Mitch"re-ralph" and I went into Dreen Cave in Pocahontas County, WV. It was Derick's first caving trip. We tied a rope at the first drop on the left and I went down the rope. The water was up in the area due to snowmelt and rain. As I descended the water thoroughly splashed me all over! Mitch, Derick and LJ came down after. It was Mitch and Derick's first time rappelling and ascending. They used a rescue 8 to descend and we sent them back up the rope using a simple sit/stand with handled ascenders. When we exited the cave, it had snowed about 2 inches while we were in. We had all gotten soaked going back up thru the water, but we dried our clothes that night beside a huge fire. No ralphs were present that night.

Dreen Cave Pocahontas County, W.V. (us) wvcaver 3 hrs 18/2

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Cave	Area	Caver	Time	Date	***	Notes
2008
Sharps	wv (us)	vertcaver14	4hrs	1/12
Me, Maddie, Sierra, Danny, Jimmy. J.D.
Wow What a trip! We decided to take the kids on a trip to Sharps. Maddie, my daughter age 6 and Jimmys daughter Sierra age 10. Danny R. was with us and Jimmy S. also Jimmys son JD 21. It was Madddies 2nd cave trip, Sierras 3rd and JD's 1st. We shuttled the kids into the entrance and continued into the first room. We checked out the leopard print ceiling and went on to Halloween Hall. We took a short break here and ran into several other cavers. One fellow Alan was with a cave rescue team in the area doing a recreational trip with his relatives. Kool dude.. very friendly. We left Halloween Hall and continued to Mud City, Hollywood, mud henge, whatever ya wanna call it! Here we took several pics. anfd the kids played we ate and drank and headed to blackfish jct. Well on the way there we got Shall I say a little lost. JD was in the lead....(remember this is his first time in a cave)I and the other guys were tending to the kids, so we weren't paying much attention to where we were at. Near J18 and the formation room on the left is where I had had enough. The terrain was getting sketchy for the kids and I wasnt sure of where we were at....lack of paying attention on my part.(I've been in Sharps 15 times leading half)it was one of those times that shit just didn't feel right. I tried not to be an ass...and said" Whoever has the map needs to be in the lead the kids need to be in the middle." After a moment of silence we returned to mud city. On the way there we realized that at one point we were on the right track. Staying low and right by the formation room. We reached mud city and went to the waterfall from there. What a massive amount of water. Took some pics and headed out. What I've learned from this trip. Organization!!! It's ok to cave by the seat of your pants and and explore hardcore when you're with a group of experienced cavers. (this is how we usually roll!) But when there is kids and new cavers involved. Our time outside the cave explaining conservation and the "rules of Caving" We should pick a leader and decide on a line up goin through the cave and make sure everybody understands and accepts this. It was a lesson learned and a fairly good trip. Looking forward to an Explore Hardcore trip to Windy Run next weekend. Whitetrash Cavers unite!!!!!!!!

pinkys pit excursion	pendelton co. (us)	vertcaver14	1hr	1/6
me, wv caver, and john powell
We planned to go to Bowden this trip, but changed plans in the parking area @ Bowden. We wanted to do something Vertical. Keith got a new GPS so we decided to try it out go find Pinkys pit. After hours of hiking and treacherous stream crossings we found a pit. a small 20' er. This was not pinkys. JP rapped in and frogged out while Keith and I waited outside. Dead bottom pit. There were three more caves within 30' of eachother on this hillside, we checked them all. one worth mention, not sure of the name. A 50' pit with a pool @ the bottom dead bottom. I rapped in first, saw the pool @ the bottom and waited on a ledge accross from a narrow canyon passage. JP came down next, and went on down just above the pool changed over on rope and ascended back up and out. I exited and we headed back out, never to find Pinkys. @ the car we looked @ the topo and realized we were only a few meters from Pinkys. I think next time we will have a little more knowledge on the GPS and bring the topo and a compasss just in case!

Tumbling Rock	Jackson County, Alabama (us)	wvcaver	7 hrs	27/4
Rusty's Cave	Dade Co. Georgia (us)	wvcaver	5 hrs.	26/4
Cemetary Pit	Dade Co. Georgia (us)	wvcaver	7 hrs	25/4
Stevens Gap	Jackson County, Alabama (us)	wvcaver	6 hrs	24/4
Pipeside Pit	Jackson County, Alabama (us)	wvcaver	1 hr	24/4
Neversink	Jackson County, Alabama (us)	wvcaver	1 hr	23/4
Gourdneck Cave	Marion County, Tennessee (us)	wvcaver	6 hrs	22/4
South Pittsburg Pit	Marion County, Tennessee (us)	wvcaver	4 hrs	21/4
Rumbling Falls	Van Buren County, Tennessee (us)	wvcaver	8 hrs	20/4
Fanchlers Pit	Tucker Co. (us)	vertcaver14	5 hrs	18/2
Scott, Keith, John, Johnny
We all met at Super WalMart in Clarksburg around noon and headed to Tucker Co. After a few stops we were at the owners house. Scott went in and talked to the owner and got the ok to go on up.(Scott used to work for this guy) We suited up w/ vertical gear and headed for the entrance. At the entrance there were some remains of a skunk, the smell was just overwhelming! After a few minutes in the stink we had the rope rigged. Scott went in first clearing the pit on the way down passing logs up and out. John went down next and cleared the pit of logs entirely and repadded the drop. I was in next, nice drop. Keith was last in the hole. Once everybody was down we started back into the cave and soon were forced to a crawl. In some places you could've went high and stayed dry but there were lots of bats up high. Scott was just lovin' that water. I think he swam most of the way through the cave! Nice formations starting about half way in. We came to a really low water crawl, and of course Scott was right in there. Keith was to the right and moved a few rocks and gained dry passage(for a little bit)This popped us out in a nice room with a register up on a mud bank. Couldn't sign it though the contents were soaked. We were able to make out the first few pages. It was put there by the Mon. grotto. We assumed we were close to the end. Everybody was pretty beat and wet. Scott checked a passage low and back with the stream and it went but it was a tight wet crawl and we had plenty of that ahead of us on the way out. So we opted to exit. It took us around a half an hour to get back to the rope. John went up first, to a nice view of the last moments of the sunset. Keith was next. I frogged out. Then Scott. Big Thanks to Keith for going back to pull the rope. It was pretty cold on the surface. Keith and Scott headed back home and John and I went over the mountain to the Purple Fiddle for some food and music, then camped out near Olsen Fire Tower. Nice fire !!!!! Excellent caving trip!

Swaygo Pit	Pocahontas County, W.V. (us)	wvcaver	2 hrs	3/2
Roadside Pit	Pocahontas County, W.V. (us)	wvcaver	2 hrs	3/2
swaygo / roadside pit		JohnPUncleRalph	day	3/2
Keith(wvcaver),Johnny(vertcaver),scott and I
Johnny and I had backpacked up to big beechy falls on saturday w/ some of our backpacking friends(Brian and Steve) and hiked out on sunday feb 3. We had great weather, no rain/snow, no wind, not too cold......rare in winter in the mon nat'l forest. We then drove over to swaygo pit where keith and scott were waiting. They had camped there the night before and had already rigged the drop. The water was up slightly from the rain and snowmelt of the previous days, but we decided to go back into swaygo and explore the route thru the cave towards carpenters. Keith and I had been thru carpenters, all the way to the swaygo system and had to stop at the last waterfall drop in swaygo, having no way to go up without a rope rigged. Anyway, we did the swaygo entrance drop, went down the passage, keith rigged the second drop and began to descend. I told him to yell off-rope only if he wanted me to come down. The water was very loud and we were curious to as how wet the drop would be. As he went down, I started downclimbing down the last little drop so I could get on rope when keith was finished. I slipped a little and started to fall, saved only by a rock jabbing me directly in the left butt cheek....wow that hurt. I would've only fell about three feet to the bottom, but it was still a somewhat sketchy situation. After a short pause i decided i could still do the drop, if keith gave the signal. He then yelled,"off rope!" and signaled me to come down. I did the drop and as i neared the bottom, the waterfall just blasted me with water and if that wasn't enough, waist deep ice cold water awaited me at the bottom. Keith said the look on my face was "priceless" and somehow found much humor in this, and said he couldn't bear to enjoy the wonders of this drop alone. Guess its the thought that counts...lol. We exited the swimming pool and waded down the passage thru some low areas and into a couple standing rooms. Things looked low and really wet beyond this, so we opted for a return trip in late spring or early summer. Returning to the drop, keith went up while i held the rope back away from the falls. After keith was up, i got on rope and frogged up thru the blasting water, bouncing back and forth from wall to wall, passing thru the waterfall with every step in the frog. After we were up, johnny derigged the rope and we exited the cave. Only then could i honestly laugh at our short adventure. I'll be sure and visit again only during times of low water and during warmer weather. We changed clothes and headed for roadside pit. We had never done it, and so down we went. I very tight entrance, keith said it was like "sharps on rope". At the bottom we went down the passage and found the way to the big room..........we were suprised at the amount of formations. All were in nice shape, lots of nice colors too. After a short snack and a safety meeting, we headed out. Overall a great trip. Special thanks to scott, for staying up top and guarding the rope at roadside. Hope to find the way thru swaygo, would like to have two teams(one at swaygo, one at carpenters) rig ropes, pass in the middle of the cave, and pull ropes up as we exit. Might try to do this in May or june 08.

Swaygo Pit	Pocahontas Co, WV (us)	wvcaver	2 hrs	2/2
2007
Cave Mountain Cave	Pendleton Co, W. Va	Norwand		5/9

I am long time NSS member (#37530) who has caved extensively in Pendleton Co, but never made it up to Cave Mountain Cave in the Smokehole. Am planning trip in the fall once the cave re-opens and was wondering if anyone could provide directions to entrance? Thanks.

Sharp's Cave	Pocohontas County, WV (us)	Skaluva99		23/6

Wondering if anyone can help me here. I've heard a lot about Sharp's Cave in West Virginia and I'm planning a trip down there with some others. Can anyone tell me how to get there? I know its near Slatyfork, I'm assuming off of Rt 219? Appreciate any info, Steve

Shavers Mtn. Cave	Randolph County, W.V. (us)	wvcaver	2 1/2 hrs	3/6
Beaverhole Upper	Preston County, WV (us)	wvcaver	2 hrs.	14/4
Sharps Cave	West Virginia (us)	JohnPUncleRalph		3/4
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After getting soaked in Dreen the day before, we decided to go to Sharps Cave for a trip on Sunday. Sharps is a fairly dry cave, and the water turned out to be very negotiable today. We accessed Halloween Hall via a small crawl and then headed down the main passage toward Blackfish Junction. After a short break, we accidently went down into the lower level just past the J18 jct. We traversed the hairy canyon ledge above the water and then had to walk in the water the last 50 yards to Blackfish jct. We then headed downstream and up the slick mudbang to the 1888 date. We all had trouble getting up onto the ledge. The water and the humidity was up and everything was extra slick. Derick had some trouble at first but then flew up the bank once he got up onto the ledge. We then headed out past the 1888 date and out to Reunion's Revenge. I sure is muddy out there but it's worth the trip. A pretty cool set of rooms near the end with a couple shady crawls leading off into the tightness. On the way back to the 1888 date, we had to make it back up a 15 or 20 foot mud bank. LJ had tied a couple straps at the top so we would have a hand line for the way back up. It's slick! I ran at the bottom and hit the bank full speed and barely managed to make it over the top w/o using the handline( although I had to kick steps into the mud as I ran up and also had to dig fingers into the mud at the top). We slid back down the chute to the steam and went back up to Blackfish jct. We then headed up the the upper level and out of the cave. It was a great trip and we were able to see some of the cave we hadn't seen before. Ralph and re-ralph had a great time. We just might make a caver out of Ralph after all.

Cave Mountain Cave	Pendleton County, W.V (us)	wvcaver	4 hrs.	31/3
Me, Diana, Johnny W, & John P.


My Cave	Pocohontas County (us)	JohnPUncleRalph		17/3
2 white trash cavers
Lost Johnny and I entered My Cave at about 330pm and made our way to the drop above the Dune Room. LJ rigged the rope and we rappelled down. What an awesome rappell that is! Not a very high free-drop, but a fantastic view rigging up and going down the slope to the drop. Big echoes in the room! After taking a break, we headed back into a little formation room and some other leads. We took some pics by the formations and headed back into the Dune room. We then decided we would go down the mud slope toward the stream and see how the waterfall was down the passage. At the top, LJ used his brain and decided it was unusually slick, way too slick to go down. I on the other hand did not use my brain, and started down the slope using a couple biners to stab in the mud. I took off zooming down the slope, almost skipping down the slope on my side. I was going so fast I remember saying "johnny!!!""" and I almost blacked-out. When I got to about where it levels off for a few feet, my heels hit semi-dry clay and skidded me to a stop. That was the scariest thing I've ever done. Once I regained my breath, I threw a mud ball down over the second slope toward the water. It hit the water just a few feet over the lip.....the passage was flooded! If I hadn't stopped at the ledge, I would have ended up in a large pool of water, and getting back onto the mud slope would've been almost impossible. I would have had to wait it out on one of two large rocks sticking up out of the pool, and wait for LJ to go back up the rope, pull it, go back down the passage into the dune room and then rig the rope at the mud slope and probably rappell down to throw me the rope. My poor decision almost landed me in a bad situation at best, and maybe a very dangerous one. I dug out my two mini-mags out of my pack to stab them into the mud going back up. LJ threw a strap down for a handline and when I made it close enough,he anchored in and helped me climb back out. Lesson learned - use caution on sketchy mud slopes! We ascended the drop, exited the cave around 10pm and ate some of Lost Johnny's darn good tacos back at camp. The next day we slept in a little, ate breakfast and went to Sharps for a short trip.

Dreen Cave	West Virginia (us)	JohnPUncleRalph		3/3
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Lost Johnny, my nephews Derick"ralph", Mitch"re-ralph" and I went into Dreen Cave in Pocahontas County, WV. It was Derick's first caving trip. We tied a rope at the first drop on the left and I went down the rope. The water was up in the area due to snowmelt and rain. As I descended the water thoroughly splashed me all over! Mitch, Derick and LJ came down after. It was Mitch and Derick's first time rappelling and ascending. They used a rescue 8 to descend and we sent them back up the rope using a simple sit/stand with handled ascenders. When we exited the cave, it had snowed about 2 inches while we were in. We had all gotten soaked going back up thru the water, but we dried our clothes that night beside a huge fire. No ralphs were present that night.

Dreen Cave	Pocahontas County, W.V. (us)	wvcaver	3 hrs	18/2
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