RedRoxx
06-09-2008, 06:08 PM
Pretty hot down here so time to get underground and up in the mountains. Arizona caving tends to be political with the grottos involved; so I'll honor tradition and not name the cave or location. It's a large nice stream passage cave that I "backwalled" with my caving partner last year at the terminal sump. The cave is sumped now near the front third but I wanted to get some pics anyway. My DLSR didn't cooperate so I had to use my point and shoot.
The cave has one rappel but can be downclimbed as a bypass in a 40 foot crack which is what we did. Otherwise crawling, stemming, chimneying and the usual.
The sump looked low so we have hopes for getting in there in 3-4 weeks before monsoon to get to the more spectacular parts of this cave.
http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/n9.jpg
http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/j8.jpg
http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/g84.jpg
http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/red4.jpghttp://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/g6.jpg
The cave has one rappel but can be downclimbed as a bypass in a 40 foot crack which is what we did. Otherwise crawling, stemming, chimneying and the usual.
The sump looked low so we have hopes for getting in there in 3-4 weeks before monsoon to get to the more spectacular parts of this cave.
http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/n9.jpg
http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/j8.jpg
http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/g84.jpg
http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/red4.jpghttp://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albvq62/g6.jpg