Results 1 to 10 of 10

Thread: Spring Cave TR (my first caving post on bogley)

  1. #1
    Trail Master
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    9,500' on a foot hill, of a 14er Above the town of Evergreen Co
    Posts
    152

    Spring Cave TR (my first caving post on bogley)

    Well I found bogley through canyoneering. My last slot canyon was one of monsterous proportions (sandthrax) and I posted a TR on my favorite climbing web site. Iceaxe and Ratagonia found this website and joined and posted comments out of the blue, and I wanted to post it up in other places so I found bogley where the TR was already cross linked.

    I just recently got into caving and after my first trip to fulford cave not long ago I started checking the caving forum at bogley which gave me more motivation to go caving when the weather is not ideal for climbing or snowboarding or canyoneering.

    BTW where the hell are all the colorado cavers hiding? I know there are alot of caves but I haven't seen many write ups. Super secret BS. I'm not joining a club to pay my dues and do things on their accord for years, just to be denied when I request information like I've read about at caves are for all. I'm way too motivated to let people like that hold me back. Luckily I have GPS coords to virtually every publicly open cave in the state now so I just have to track them down and explore and map them out for myself I guess unless I meet some cavers who are more friendly and more open to share information. Luckily I have 1 person who offered to scan maps for me if he has one of where I'm going.

    The weather was crap so we decided to bag the idea of doing 2 slot canyons and instead go caving. I've learned over time that you can't fight mother nature so you might as well learn to work with her.

    We met up at 2 am in Evergreen and took off. The drive over the passes was a little hairy with a bunch of rude semi-drivers and crappy road conditions. We stopped in rifle to get some food. We also went to walmart and picked up a compass and some dry bags.

    Off we went, the drive was pretty enjoyable. Although we had a spook as we saw a sign saying the road to Buford was closed and that's where were headed! We decide to ignore the sign and keep going.

    The drive is really senic up the valley near the trail head:


    You can see some elk on the right side of this shot:


    More of the drive toward the entrance:

    We eventually made it to the trail head with no closed road. We were the only people there at about 7:30/8 am. The hike up to the entrance went fast as it was dry.

    We were all buzzing from the excitment once we got to the entrance, so we geared up and took off.

    The entrance:




    This formation was nearly the first cool thing we saw:

    We made our way to the Pirates Den after that.
    The entrance to the Den:


    We walked through some cool hallways and saw 1 cool formation on the way to the first fixed rope:




    The other members of our team used the rope:

    I decided it was easily down climbable. Thunder road was roaring and it looked high as hell. I didn't want to go near it so we walked down and checked out the lake. The lake was super full and had a raging current. I decided to climb out above it for a picture reguardless. I was sure a fall would mean death as the lake was probly 6'+ deep so I made sure every move was 100%.

    I think the shot was worth the extra caution and possible doom:

    We made our way back to the fixed rope up into the butterscotch room and again I decided I don't need a stinking rope. I climbed up into the butterscotch room with out the aid of the rope getting extremely soaked in the process. Everyone followed also getting soaked, so once we got in the butterscotch room we emptied our packs and let things dry out a little. Grabbing a little snack while we waited was a bonus. Everything was steaming while it dried out. Once everything got as dry as possible we packed our extra dry clothes with all our extra battery's and light sources into my 3 new dry bags for safe keeping.

    A cool formation in the butterscotch room:

    We then made our way to the bridge room passing a ton of cool stuff:

    <img>







    Once in the bridge room we decided to try to keep going as far as possible so we found the rope hole. I again decided the rope was an unnecessary eye sore and climbed down with out it. We crossed a number of flooded hallways on the way to the dogleg via bridging and traversing and steming above the water.

    My friend at the other end of one:


    At one of these crossings there was a rope going up out the other side and we climbed up with out it again. I'm not sure but it seemed the rope may have kept going under the water like there was another passage under there.
    We made our way back a ways and explored alot of passages around the bowl room.
    We never could find the crack attic or the rooms beyond that area. Maybe the passage was flooded as it seems we explored everything we could with out scuba gear. Hell we even climbed up 30 feet in 2 different spots looking for the passage to the next area but both spots seemed to squeeze out way to much or entirely all together.

    Some pics from beyond the dog leg I believe:





    We got kinda turned around back beyond the dog leg around the bowl room and main street(not sure if we found mainstreet or not) In the process of trying to find the crack attic so we decided it was best to head back. We got out of the cave around 3 and enjoyed having pleanty of time to drive home.

    Enjoy!

  2. # ADS
    Circuit advertisement
    Join Date
    Always
    Location
    Advertising world
    Posts
    Many
     

  3. #2
    Trail Master
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    9,500' on a foot hill, of a 14er Above the town of Evergreen Co
    Posts
    152
    Sorry I can't get the pics to load properly this is officially my first bogley TR. Someone send me an E-mail OR PM and tell me how to post pics so I can fix this. I tried the add attachments option once but it didn't work.

  4. #3
    Adding attachments is probably easier, just get them down to size. 1000 x 1000 and under 256k. I think cirrus posted a link to hotlinking through flick, but cant recall where it was.
    Your safety is not my responsibility.

  5. #4
    Candition.com | Canyon Conditions

    <%@me = User.find_by_adventurer(params[:theking648])%>

  6. #5
    Zions the "s" is silent trackrunner's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    indoors wanting to be outdoors
    Posts
    3,216
    two ways to post pics. One is to hotlink the image ending in a .jpg, .gif, etc.

    for example

    Code:
    Another way is when you hit a new post (or post a reply) you'll find below the box you write something that says "Add an Attachment" in a black bar. Below that is Filename and an empty box followed by a button titled Browse. Click this find your pic and select. No below this Browse button is a button titled Add Attachment. Select this and your pic has been attached.

    see below pic on how to attach. see above code on how I hotlinked this image



    This thread has good info

    http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1718

    And beach has this video that King gave a link in the post above
    This is how you hotlink a youtube video
    Code:

  7. #6
    Trail Master
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    9,500' on a foot hill, of a 14er Above the town of Evergreen Co
    Posts
    152
    Pics back up. Sorry for the delay I coulden't log on till now and actually just decided to give up. I re-set my cookie settings and it didn't work, then mountain project wouldn't work for me so I changed them again. I just went caving so I decided I would see if I could log on here and sure enough I could.

    Turns out I already knew how to post up the pics, it's the same way I do it on teton gravity research forums. I was trying to use the code that mountain project requires to post images in a forum. I just had to go back and get the right code is all.

  8. #7

  9. #8

  10. #9
    Trail Master
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    9,500' on a foot hill, of a 14er Above the town of Evergreen Co
    Posts
    152
    Just wait..... 2 more comming your way!
    Good thing I got the day off after yesterday, tonz of pics to sort through.

  11. #10
    Glad I came back to this thread to witness the awesome shots. Really cool man. I appreciate you taking the risk and agree the shot was totally worth it.

    Your safety is not my responsibility.

Similar Threads

  1. [How To] Embed Google Maps in a bogley post
    By Sombeech in forum About Bogley & Support
    Replies: 4
    Last Post: 04-09-2014, 11:16 AM
  2. [Trip Report] First Bogley Post-Das Boot and Behunin
    By spinesnaper in forum Canyoneering
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 06-18-2010, 02:00 PM
  3. POST and SHARE your BOGLEY MOAB photos here.
    By abirken in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 60
    Last Post: 05-10-2009, 09:19 PM
  4. How to post a YouTube video on Bogley
    By Sombeech in forum About Bogley & Support
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 04-29-2009, 07:28 PM
  5. How to post a picture on bogley
    By Sombeech in forum About Bogley & Support
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 04-29-2009, 07:28 PM

Visitors found this page by searching for:

spring cave colorado

caving colorado trip report

http:www.bogley.comforumshowthread.php35111-Spring-Cave-TR-(my-first-caving-post-on-bogley)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •