CUMBERLAND VALLEY CAVER Pulishe y FRANKLIN COUNTY GROTTO An ffilite of the Ntionl Speleologil Soiety Vol. 11, No 1 Mrh 2010 2010 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SECRETARY Pt Minnik 14220 Blue Mountin R Wynesoro, PA 17268 (717) 765-0521 MEMBER-AT-LARGE Dne Wgle Box 277 Firfiel, PA 17320 (717) 642-5865 CHAIR-PERSON Kenneth C. Jones 4446 Duffiel R. Chmersurg, PA 17201 (717) 267-2669 VICE-CHAIRMAN Kenneth B. Tymn 13373 Sunrise Drive Blue Rige Summit, PA 17214 (717) 794-2069 EDITOR Kenneth B. Tymn 13373 Sunrise Drive Blue Rige Summit, PA 17214 (717) 794-2069 MEMBERSHIP DUES REGULAR (NSS MEMBER) $10 NON-NSS MEMBERS $12 FAMILY MEMBERS $ 3 LIFE (NSS ONLY) 20 x Reg TREASURER Anne Shepr 14220 Blue Mountin R Wynesoro, PA 17268 (717) 765-0521 MEMBER-AT-LARGE Gory Ley 34 North Miller St Firfiel, PA 17320 (717) 642-8970 Frnklin County Grotto meetings re hel the 3r Mony of the month in New Frnklin Fire Deprtment, New Frnklin, PA. The fire eprtment is lote on PA Route 316, 3 miles est of I-81 (exit #14). The meeting strts t 7:30 PM. Both grotto ving trips n smller iniviul trips re plnne t these meetings. All memers re invite epening on their ility to sfely prtiipte. You must tten t lest one vertil trining session in orer to prtiipte in vertil trips. Contt ny of the ove iniviuls for more informtion. The Cumerln Vlley Cver is pulishe ouple of times per yer y the Frnklin County Grotto PA. All ve relte rtiles shoul e sumitte to the eitor for pulition. The ontents of this pulition re not opyrighte unless previously opyrighte y the uthor. Mteril from this pulition my e reprinte y other offiil orgniztions of the Ntionl Speleologil Soiety without prior permission provie reit is given to the originl uthor n this pulition, n the rtile is not hnge in nywy. Other intereste prties must request permission in vne. Frnklin County Grotto tively prtiiptes in newsletter exhnge progrm. All exhnges shoul e mile to: Ken Jones, 4446 Duffiel R, Chmersurg, PA 17201. Informtion regring exhnges shoul e oorinte with eitor so the exhnge list n e upte. Cover: Formtions in the Perl Room, Fntsy Cve, Huntingon County, PA Photo y Howr White 2
Tle of Contents From the Eitor... 3 Speleo-Spotlight Don Arrowoo y Ken Tymn.. 4 TAG Fll Cve-in 2009 y Terry MClnthn..... 5 Photo Doumenttion Trip to Hellhole Cve, WV from NSS We Pge... 8 Orgn Cve (Lipps) y Ken Tymn 9 Cve Voulry.... 11 Cleversurg Wter Stuy with hrt......... 12 Fntsy Cve n Survey esription.. 13 Fntsy Cve Mp Pln n Profile.. 16 WNS Errti Bt Ativity survey. 19 Wepons Che (news pper lip).... 19 Cvetoon. 19 From the eitor Well, it s een long time sine we strte the Fntsy Survey, lmost 6 yers, ut finlly fter three n hlf yers of survey, n two yers of rtogrphy work, we hve mp tht represents ll of the urrently surveye ve. The rtogrpher, To Roerts, joine the projet in April 2007. Tht is 3 yers into the projet. He never surveye efore, n strte t the um en of the tpe. He progresse quikly to instruments, skething n ought the ve mpping softwre, rwing progrm n ssume responsiility for reting mp with lern s you go pln. Not muh ving going on ue to WNS n three or feet of snow on the groun. We i o little monitoring for errti t tivity n i get some interesting wter level t from Cleversurg Sink. There is hrt inlue in the rtile tht reflets wter level flutution from Otoer 2009 Ferury 2010. It highlights the possiility of eing trppe in the k setion of the ve y rpi flooing in the lowest pssges. Sine it only tkes out 15 inhes to sump the lower pssge, 12 foot rise in 24 hours is something to e onerne out. Thnks to Terry, Don, Ken Jones, Aln, Te, Gory, Howr, Dne, Prof. Feeney, Pt n To Roerts for ontriuting rtiles, pitures, info, quotes, jokes n mps for this issue. Ken Tymn, Eitor 3
Speleo-Spotlight... Don Arrowoo NSS # 15433 FCG # 1 My first ontt with Don ws when I ws serhing for lol grotto to join n I lle the FCG ontt numer given to me y the NSS. Don nswere n gve me iretions to the meeting. Don is hrter memer of FCG. He reruite the initil memers n file with the NSS. One of the stuents from Greenstle Shool who ws in the sme lss t Vo-Teh h mentione ook he h out ves in Frnklin County, so Don got him to ring it to shool one y n tht ws the first time he sw MAR ulletin. They setup trip for tht weeken n tht ws how he got into ving. His first ve ws Goo s Cve in 1970. His Fvorite ve is Fntsy Cve whih is feture in this issue. He n frien one rie their wy into Bker s Cverns with two 6-pks of Blk Lel eer. He grute from Chmersurg Are Senior High Shool in 1972. He h tken Business Courses n lso ttene the Frnklin County Votionl Tehnil Shool n h tken Grphis Arts. He is urrently going to Kpln University in Hgerstown, MD to get n Assoite Degree in Computer Forensis. His 4 Don, fter strem pssge rwl, Fntsy Cve previous jo ws working t Grove Crne Mnufturing. He lso hs 21+ yers with the Feerl Government t Letterkenny Army Depot in the Fiel Printing Plnt, n other positions s Offset Photogrpher/Silk Sreener in the Missile Defense Brnh. Don is lso memer of York Grotto n enjoys rige wlking n is memer of Frnklin County Rok n Minerl Clu. He lso enjoys Genelogil reserh. y Ken Tymn
TAG Fll-Cve-in 09 By Terry MClnthn WNS hs ertinly put mper on ving in the Virginis over the pst yer. Gs pries re reeping up gin, mking trips to TAG, Kentuky, n Inin hr on the wllet. Our ving options re not s vrie s they were just few short yers go. I hve lot of ol friens in TAG with whom I selom get the hne to ve nymore, so for the pst severl yers I ve me speil effort to tten the TAG-Fll-Cve-In to soilize n, of ourse, keep n eye out for ny new hunre foot pits. This yer two things ttrte my ttention. I lerne tht smll group of vers unknown to me h foun new hunre footer in Georgi ve lle Slot Rok. I h lso een informe tht trips were resuming in one populr Tennessee multi-rop lle Deep Thrust whih h een lose for quite while. Deep Thrust, I knew, ontine 147 pit, n the pit in Slot Rok h not een tpe yet, ut ws thought to e well in exess of 100 feet eep. The lure of two new-tome hunre footers sent me on the 600 mile junt own the interstte with high expettions. I pike up To in Winhester n we foun ourselves just north of Chttnoog t roun 5 AM on the Stury morning of the Cve-in. We h een riving through spori ownpours ll night. Although the weeken forest ws for lering, I knew the re roun northwest Georgi h reeive etween 10-20 inhes of rin in the pst two weeks, so I figure wter levels in the ves woul e high. Slot Rok is lote just north of Trenton, G., smll town only out 20 minutes from the Cve-in site. I h me rrngements to meet some of my TAG friens who h not een to either of our trget ves. Mnuel Beers (Atlnt), Brin Killinek n Me Kile (Chttnoog), myself, Brin Killingek liming ner wterfll in Slot Rok Drop Cve. Photo y Mnuel Beers 5 n To woul onstitute the rew. Mrty Aerromie, who ws one of the isoverers, took us to the lnowner s house, introue us, n seure permission. He si he ws hung over from too muh prtying the night efore n woul not e joining us, ut he i give Brin GPS oorintes n some in-ve pointers on how to reh the pit. The ve is short, wet, four pit multi-rop whih hs een known for over two ees. The lst rop ws prt wy own muh higher ome.
Me Kile in Slot Rok Drop Cve. Photo y Mnuel Beers A few months previous to our visit, Mrty n severl others h pushe tight rwl ner the ottom of the entrne pit. This le them to the top of the high ome. There were no nturl rig points roun the top of the ome so they snke long rope through the rwl. Of ourse there were lot of ru points. They estimte the pit to e out 130 eep. They requeste tht if I went there, woul I set some olts for sfer rig n tpe the rop. Exept for the originl isovery rew, Mrty tol us no other vers h s yet one the new hunre footer. The entrne onsiste of flute 50 pit with two pssges leing from the ottom. Mnuel n I went into rwl to try to lote the top of the hunre footer. Too soon we me to shllower pit whih we relize ws the seon pith in the originl multi-rop route. By the time we ktrke, Brin h foun the orret route. At one point this rwl pinhe into higher tighter 6 onstrition whih h stoppe explorers of the erly 80 s. Following Mrty s iretions, we squeeze into this. It remine snug for nother forty feet to where it pinhe gin. A short nyon trverse eyon the seon pinh le to our ojetive. The top of the ome ws only out four feet ross, ut short istne own the pit elle out. I set two olts on opposite wlls for Y-hng rig own the enter. A rok rop from here inite free rppel, n this turne out to e the se. Most of the top prt of the pit ws niely sulpture n verge out ten feet in imeter. Aout 50 feet from the ottom wterfll entere from the fourth pit of the multi-rop route. The rope hung only ouple of feet from the flls ut you rely got wet t ll. It me for very seni rppel n lim. The pit lso enlrge in this re to out twenty feet in imeter. We tpe the ome t 129. The Georgi hunre foot list is not extensive, in ft, over hlf the totl hunre footers re in Ellisons Cve lone. Well, now there is one more to to the list n it s pretty nie. The rwlwy getting to it ws little muy on this prtiulr y, ut ll in ll not relly tht. We exite Slot Rok, took quik tour of nery ve lle Rnge Pot, with one short rop, n rove over to the TAG Fll-Cve-in with ylight to spre. Some woul sy I m getting soft in my ol ge. Suny morning we hee over to Deep Thrust in Tennessee, whih is out n hour n hlf rive from the Cve-in. Deep Thrust ws populr pull-own trip uring the 80 s. The 147 terminl pit is ome whih rops own right esie the gping tunnels of n tive unergroun limestone qurry. After while the ompny eme onerne with vers exiting vi the qurry n shut own ess. It ws on my to-o list erly on, ut efore I oul t the ve ws lose, n so it remine for quite few yers. I reently lerne through Atlnt ver Any Zellner tht n greement h een me etween vers n the qurry llowing ess to the ve. The stipultion eing vers oul go s fr s the lst pit, ut h to exit through the ve without interfering with qurry opertions, in other wors no more pullowns.
We h the sme rew s the y efore with the ition of three Inin vers, Joe Kiner, Drrin Chpmn, n Anrew Kenney. We took four ropes for the three rops n one triky limown whih Any Z. wrne me woul e iffiult to sen for shorter folk. We were lso tol tht reent hevy rins oul mke for some wet pits. The ve entrne is the usul TAG 400 vertil gin up the mountin. There ws smll strem entering the ve opening in the ottom of smll, steep sie sink. Just insie short rwl le to the first rop. It soune little more thn just rippy. The 74 pit splits t the hlfwy point into wet route n rier route. We hose the ltter. Beyon this 100 wet rwl les to the next pit. The rwl is normlly grvel with just few pools, ut on this y it ws fst moving strem out four inhes eep, with severl eeper setions. There were lso ouple of low spots neessitting goo full oy soking. I ws gl I hose my PVC suit. Mnuel n Brin h gone he with the ig rope. I followe. At the en of the rwl ws very wet 25 footer. Brin wite for Me, To, n our Inin ompnions. I took the ig rope from Brin n went in serh of Mnuel who ws route fining using notes furnishe y Aln Cressler. At twelve foot limown, the one Any h wrne us out; I met Mnuel returning from his souting trip. I lime own the rop, ut the lst six feet ws unerut n the wter ws pretty hevy. I knew Brin h short rope to rig this for our sent. I informe Mnuel tht Brin ws witing t the ottom of the lst pit for everyone to th up. I tol him I thought it might e while. In ft I ws wonering if the Inin fellows, two of whom were it on the hevy sie, woul mke it through the low spots in the strem rwl. Before returning to fin me, Mnuel h een leving irns t vrious juntions. He h stoppe t spot where the route ws getting hr to follow. Together Mnuel n I eie to ontinue our serh for the ig pit, tking the rope with us. Muh of the ve t this mile level ws srmling orehole. There ws one rekown re whih use us some hesittion. Mnuel thought it est to wit here for the others. I followe wht ppere to e the most trvele route through the rekown n went on he to fin the lst pit. Shortly fter the rekown mze, the ve opene up into lrge well eorte setion of 7 orehole. At ouple of spots the orehole expne into moerte size hmers fille with sing flowstones, olumns, n stlgmites/stltites. Very nie. The orehole terminte in finl hmer with smll, steeply ownsloping rwlwy t its fr en. Air ws lsting out of this, so I sli own into fissure pssge whih ontinue ngling ownwr. I figure the 147 h to e nery. A ownlim le to short pop-through followe y nother short ownlim. Beyon this ekone gping lkness. I ssesse the rigging options n then returne to see if the others h ught up with Mnuel. I met everyone out hlfwy long the route I h just soloe. I ws orret in my ssumption tht the Inin fellows might e unte y the strem rwl ner the entrne. Two of the three h turne roun. Tht left six of us. It in t tke long to rig the ig rop. It ws lrge volume pit perhps fifty feet in imeter, some smll leges interrupte the rop, preventing free rppel, ut it ws still quite n impressive pit. There were just enough rippies to keep you oole own on the lim. We ll enjoye ouning the pit. It ws pretty ool seeing the ig lit qurry tunnels just off to the sie. To n I h long Suny night rive he of us, so we route fter sening the 147, leving the erigging to the others. Brin h rigge our short rope t the triky 12 foot wet rop. I ws gl euse I still flile on the ottom unerut portion, s the wter poune me. Gre hs never een one of my strengths. At lest when we got out of Deep Thrust, ll our ger ws len. It turne out to e rel nie TAG Fll Cve-in, with two fine ves n two new-to-me hunre footers. The long rive home h memories whih rought smile to my fe. Fther Son Tlk Son: D, when I grow up, I wnt to e ver just like you. D: Son, I m sorry, ut you n t o oth!
Photo-oumenttion Trip to Hellhole Cve, WV From NSS We pge On Stury, 2/20/10, joint West Virgini Deprtment of Nturl Resoures, U.S. Fish n Willife, n NSS projet i photogrphi oumenttion n t popultion survey trip into Hellhole Cve, West Virgini. This projet me together very quikly over the pst 3-4 weeks, one flying ts were oserve outsie the ve. While witing lortory onfirmtion of WNS in ouple of Little Brown ts, orgniztion move forwr on severl fronts. I ws ske to orgnize ve/t photogrphers from roun the ountry n get offiil NSS Projet sttus, while logistis were orgnize in terms of equipment, trvel, n permits n wivers. Fifteen people on three ifferent rews went in to oument three seprte res of the ve. Eh rew h guies from the Germny Vlley Krst Survey, iologist, n photogrphi rews. The jos were to photogrph everything, ount n oserve ts, reple temperture n humiity t loggers, n remove n pproprite numer of t rsses, if ny. We were le to onnet with n inlue Ntionl Geogrphi photogrpher n ssistnt, who re working on WNS story for future issue. Hellhole is only one of the sites they hve visite. For ontext, Hellhole is West Virgini's lrgest t hiernulum. The lst survey (2007) showe over 112,000 ts. The mjority re Little Browns, ut some 4-5% of the known Inin ts live here, n over 6,000 Virgini Big Ers - out 45% of the entire known popultion on the plnet. The lst two speies re feerlly liste s enngere. The news: upon rriving t the sinkhole entrne, plenty of ts were reily oserve exiting the ve n flying outsie. Mny flew off into the istne to ertin eth, given the sene of foo supply this time of yer. Others were seen lning n "wing-wlking" on the snow. In the entrne room ( 160 foot rop into huge ell hmer), ts were everywhere - flying, on the wlls, n the floor littere with rsses. Virtully ll were Little Browns. From one 15- meter squre smple re, gllon-size Ziplo g ws fille with e ts. The rest of the floor ws the sme. For ontext, the 2007 survey oserve only one t in the entrne room. At the ifferent Little Brown roosting sites, WNS ws in ler eviene, n rsses foun long the wy. In the eepest reesses of LBB roosts, lesser mounts of the fungus were evient, implying tht ts h move to the entrne re, onsistent with ehviors oserve in northern sites. The Inin lusters lso showe WNS - rnging from reporte 12% to 50%. An oserver who h NY sites to ompre si it looke like wht they h seen in yer one of n infesttion. For omprison, the t from the northestern sites ffete for severl yers hs shown tht the Inin mortlity numers re in the 50% rnge, s ompre with the Little Browns well into the 90% rnge. The goo news: No eviene of WNS ws seen in the Virgini Big Ers. This ws extremely enourging, s their roosts re lote in ples long the routes where the other infete speies pss. Some pre-trip speultion h hope tht things might e ifferent with this speies. Why 1. It's ifferent speies; 2. They roost in very ry res (70% humiity s onfirme y t loggers); 3. They roost in very ol res - roun 32 egrees F, inluing osionlly elow (gin, temperture loggers t the sites hve shown this onsistently); 4. They rouse quikly, whih my inite they on't nee to urn the sort of ft reserves other speies o in orer to mount n immune response. All of these things will nee to stuie n nlyze, of ourse, ut, for now, the news is very goo. Let's hope it stys tht wy. A ution: we've seen WNS progress very slowing in other how-humiity sites, ut not e stoppe, so we'll nee to see tht the VBEs ontinue to remin untouhe over few yers. This is just one site, n one oservtion, ut it's lerly highly signifint one. The work of ompiling ll the thousns of photogrphs tken, the omprison of the tritionl liker n luster ensity methos of ounting to the new photogrphi methos, n the nlysis of the t logger t, will tke while, so more omplete report will ome lter. An NSS News rtile is plnne for the future. A huge thnks to the vers of the Germny Vlley Krst Survey for not only sfely n effiiently guiing the rews to the sites, ut lso for use of their fiel house for pren post-ve meetings. One lst, ut importnt note: Hellhole is lese y limestone qurry, whih eletronilly monitors the ve for ny unuthorize intrusion. As result, we know tht no one hs een in the ve sine Septemer 1, 2007. Thus, we know tht WNS rrive here y t-to-t trnsmission, not vi humns. Peter Younger NSS 16161 WNS Liison 8
Orgn Cve (Lipps) Jnury 22-2, 20104 y Ken Tymn Lst yer our Jnury trip to Lightner s Cve ws suh suessful trip, tht we eie to try n mke it n nnul thing. The WVACS fiel house is n exellent ple for winter trip. It hs ouple unk houses, kithen, showers n nie woo stoves to keep you wrm. All of this not to mention the ouple hunre ves within short riving istne. We in t wnt wet trip n we wnte to get most of the group into new ve n sine five memers of the group h never een in Orgn efore, we hose Lipps. I trie to otin permission to exit out vi the Commeril Orgn entrne ut the owners wouln t llow it, so the pln ws to go to the Flk-Hnley Turnpike n then Just insie the Lipps Entrne to Orgn Cve. Left to Right: Dne, Jonthn, Gory, Aln, Alley, Ken n Dnny. Photo y Aln return. I h een thru this prt of the ve ouple of times out 14 yers go so ws fmilir with the route. I i hve lrge sle mp n sine route fining woul e the min hllenge, I plnne to sty on the mp ll the wy. I ws llowing three hours to get in then woul turn the trip for totl of six hour trip. This ws very resonle pe for us ol timers n our young ver in t seem to min the slow pe. Frnklin County Grotto vers on this trip were, Jonthn Peterson, Gory Ley, Dne Wgle n his ughter Alley, Dnny Cumo, Me n lst minute -on Aln Horn. It turne out tht Aln h een in the ve severl times n h een to the sme generl re. Alley sitting t the strt of the Flk/Hnley Turnpike Photo y Gory 9 As trip leer I, lwys feel lot of extr pressure. Not only is there the ehin the sene work of ln owner o-orintion, loging n knowing where the entrne is lote, there is knowing or seleting the route through the ve, keeping the group together n mking sure everyone sfely returns.
This group ws me up of ouple 60 yer ols, ouple, 50 yer ols, n few others who enjoy slower mesure pe where you n enjoy the ve. Even the younger ones ppreite group tht stys together n oesn t leve the slower ones ehin. Tht is the wy I ve, n tht is the wy I le my trips. I pike the Flk-Hnley Turnpike s the ojetive euse it is hr to explin it to someone who hs not een there. It is smll 18 inh wie lege, long the wll tht strts out with 40 foot rop, n 20 feet lter ens up sloping wy to nothing when the floor is only 3 feet wy. It is lote in winow where you n see he ig lk voi of the Flk Room, n no wy own exept ross the lege. When we rrive, n I sw the lege for the first time in 14 yers, I tully foun it hr to elieve tht I h one rwle ross it! The seon time I ws here we rigge rope n rppelle the rop. The 3 hours I h llowe to get to the turnpike ws just out right. The frequent mp heks, plement of few key tril mrker refletors, n ouple photo-shoot set ups y Aln got us there right on sheule. Aln spent plenty of time setting up shots in the huge Hnley Room. I think he got little upset when I kept enourging him to wrp it up. There ws etour he wnte to show us on the wy out, n if we were going to meet the exit time we h nnoune to the fmily where we prke the vehiles n to our hosts t the WVACS fiel house, we h to move out. Route-fining went well. We i get little split up in the Flt Room whih is one of the wys into the Lipps Mze. I knew we weren t on the tril we ome in on, ut Aln ws he n feeling his wy through. I knew there ws more thn one wy out, ut I in t wnt to get split up in the mze. Jonthn gree n we stoppe, lle Aln n his group k, reunite the group, foun our mrker n the proeee out together. Tht s just the wy I (n FCG) o it. Just to emphsis this, the vers in the le misse turn fter going through the Breezewy, n misse the onnetion to the Tresure Pssge. This ws where Aln wnte to show us relly pretty setion. Their wy ws A wy out, ut it wsn t the right wy out. I thought out not lling them k, n not tell them they misse their etour until we where wy pst it, n too fr to return. Tht might hve emphsize stying together. But sine it ws suppose to e pretty n we were sort of on sheule, I let him know. The huge Hnley Room. Down to the right, eyon Jonthn (in re) is limown tht tkes you to the Flk/Hnley Turnpike, whih is the onnetion etween this room n the Flk room Multi-Flsh photo y Aln 10
Cving Voulry ALB: Amzing Levitting Bouler A ouler in ve roof hel up (rely) y thumprint size frition t eh en. Crie Assist: Refers to "enourgement" of ver (esp. eletri vers) in rwl y following rie ver. Chest Compressor: A rwl tht n not e negotite y n iniviul without exhling. Chemil Persusion: Explosives. Er Dipper: A low wet pssge whih requires one er to get wet to rwl through. Flpper: A smll rippe piee of skin ommon on limer's knukles. Group shot in Tresure Pssge. Photo y Aln At first he in t elieve me, ut when I wlke him k 30 feet to the juntion, he unerstoo. It is efinitely worth the etour. We spent out 30 minutes tking photos n then hee out. The min prolem of oing n in n k out trip through Lipps, is tht ll of the stoop wlking n rwling is on tht hlf of the trip. If we een llowe to exit through the Orgn Commeril Entrne, the seon 3 hours woul hve mostly een huge trunk pssge. By the time we were out, ll us ol timers were tire n rey for Mexin in Lewisurg. We spent the next ouple hours putting wy few eers n tos n some goo omreship with John Person n severl of his friens. The Horror: Tht whih is foun in Horror Hole ves. Soop: To explore ve tht someone hs tol you out efore they n get k to explore it. Short Rope: (1) When pith is rigge with too-short rope. (2) When the person preeing you on rope iently pulls it up s they lim n you nnot reh it. Spelunk: The soun me y ver wlking through wter 1 to 1.5 feet eep. 11
Ferury 19, 2010 Cleversurg Sink Wter Level Projet Professor Tom Feeney, from Shippensurg University, lle n si he woul giving pper t meeting of the: "Geologil Soiety of Ameri Northest / Southest Regionl Meeting" on 16 Mrh 2010 in Bltimore. He ske if we oul get together n ump the lst two months of t from the Cleversurg sink wter level sensor euse he woul like to inlue it in the presenttion. We gree to meet t 11:15 t the ve. I lle Jonthn to see if he wnte to go long. He si he meet us there. There ws still lot of snow on the groun so we eie to just ump the t n not fool roun in the ve. Tom n Jonthn out to unlok the ve gte Photo y Ken T We truge our wy through the snow, got the gte open. Jonthn eie to go own n peek into the first ig room n etermine he oul not see ny wter. This inite severl foot rop sine the Deemer 19, 2009 hek. There sensor inite ownwr swing of severl feet, then k up to twenty-five feet. (ove the sensor). Sine the sensor is few feet elow the ottom of the ler tht woul men the wter ws still ove the top of the 20 foot ler. We loke up n rrie out some trsh. Professor Feeney, prepring to ump t. Photo y Ken T This hrt represents the wter level flutution Ot 2009 Fe 2010. The re line lso represents the Elevtion of the olt in the ig room from where the sensor is hung. The wter ppers to rise 12 quite rpily (24 hrs) in mi Otoer!! 665 is se of ler. 12
Fntsy Cve is one of the lrger n more omplex ves in Huntingon County. It ws isovere in 1984 n prtil survey ws one y Frnklin County Grotto n some memers of York Grotto in 1986. At tht time, the lnowner's wishes were tht no further work e one so the ve ws physilly lose. The property ws sol in 2003 n the new lnowner llowe the ve to e reopene in the spring of 2004. A prtil survey ws one in the proeeing three yers n is inlue in this issue. Mny more pssges remin to e surveye n mppe.the work tht hs went into this projet hs een long, wet, n tiring ut muh stisftion hs een relize y the vers involve. FANTASY CAVE Ken Jones The Sentinel in the Perl Room Photo y Howr White This ve hs mny levels n is well eorte ve with formtions tht rnge from the ler so strws n white lite wlls n floors to lrge olumns n rperies n rimstone pools. Crystl pools, white stltites n stlgmites s well s ve perls re foun throughout the ve. The ve lso hs numerous pits tht rnge from fifteen to thirty five feet in height or epth. This is ve tht requires n ility to lim s well s rwl n el with high moisture levels. The ve temperture usully rnges from 51 to 54 egrees throughout. The ve is urrently lose y the owner's request s it oes hve t popultion. Little White Mountin Out pst the Juntion Room 13
Flowstone insie the Perl Dome of the Doule Dome Complex. You miss this if you on t push your he up through hole in the 4 eiling. SURVEY Ken Tymn I ws not prt of the isovery or erly explortion of this ve. I o rememer k in 1990, when I first joine up with the grotto, sking Ken Jones Wht is your fvorite ve Tht ws the first time I her of Fntsy Cve. It ws lose y the owners n they in t wnt nyoy to other them. It soune to me then tht there ws not muh hne of me ever getting hne to see it. On my first survey trip (ever) it ws Pt Minnik, Jennie Hrtmn n me surveying from the entrne to the Big Room (O-1 O17). My jo ws the um en of the tpe. As the survey progresse I ssume ook keeping responsiilities. After ouple of trips with instrument shortges, I purhse my ompss, linometer n 50 tpe. The multi-level omplexity of the ve, in mny setions there re four levels of pssge the sort of intertwine, sre off our potentil rtogrphers, ut we kept surveying. After three yers of survey n nothing to show for it exept SMAPS line hrt, I ws isourge, s were mny other prtiipnts. I h reently met new memer t Tri-Stte Grotto meeting, (To Roerts) n thought he might e vlule sset to the survey projet. I ske if he e intereste in eing regulr prtiipnt in the survey. He si he hn t one ny survey efore ut ws willing to lern. His first survey ws from the No Nme Pit to the top of the Egg Dome He strte tht trip on the um en of the tpe, ut finishe up setting sttions n shooting zimuth / elintion. Soon he e keeping ook n skething. Next he ought ve mpping softwre (Winkrst n WALLS) n ws oing the Crtogrphy in lern s you go opertion. A ouple omputer rshes, little issention mong the survey tem n the rtogrphers move from Virgini to New Mexio oul hve ene this projet, ut on Mrh 3, 2010 I reeive the inlue mp whih represents ll of the urrently surveye pssge. This is speil front/k mp for the newsletter. There is lrger sle mp. Well eorte pssge in Upper Level ove Juntion Room 14
More ve Nees survey S FANTASY CAVE 36 The Fr Rehes E W n o l Huntingon County, Pennsylvni Pge 1 of 2 34 0 50 100 N Pln view j Tom's Hll (Delite upper pssge) Chimney own 10' to lower pssge t 44 Pool Room h Down to Big Room f 42 Surveye Mrh 2003 Novemer 2007 Totl length 3853 feet Totl epth 105 feet Surveye y: Don Arrowoo, Brry Dunn, Mrk Guiffre, To Hnok, Jen Hrtmn, Mrtin Helmke, E Holln, Ken Jones, Gory Ley, Tim Long, Terry MClnthn, Pt Minnik, Jonthn Peterson, Lin Pook, To Roerts, Jim Shweitzer, Anne Shepr, Helen Tymn, Ken Tymn, Istvn Uruyo, Dine White, Howr White Crtogrpher: To Roerts Entrne (gte) 0.0 f h l h l e Tom Room t Ler Room Ler y 68 Holy Shit Pit Chimney up 10ft to Pool Room l 0-16 65 Big Room 40 The Blst Hole Clim own to Holy Shit Pit level Clim own to Big Room 43 The woly rok j Bsell Bts To Perl Room lony Big Perl Dome 4 D The Doule Domes f 87 42 D 3 Pery Dome 50 j 94 Go own here 2 47 D The Upsie Down Dinosur Enters ottom of Re Rok Dome Munter Pith e D Formtion hoke f More ve Nees Survey No Nme Pit 70 t Clim own to lower level The Weing Cke More ve Nees Survey The Egg Dome t 50 NE Profile Cve History My 1982 Disovere y Ken Jones & Grnt Brouse Aug 1984 Opene y Tom Mithell, Ken Jones n Jim Hrt Perl Room To upper level Re Rok Dome SE Profile Hnok Highwy f 99 59 87 60 e f 64 51 My 1986 Prtil Survey y York n Frnklin County Grottos Nov 1986 Cve lose y lnowner Fe 2003 Reopene y new lnowner Mx Ber; Aess grnte to Frnklin County Grotto e Apr 2003 - Nov 2007 Survey restrte y Frnklin County Grotto (n friens) De 2007 Temporrily lose y owner There is still more ve to e isovere n surveye Ceiling height Pit / rop epth Unsurveye / presume imensions Unerlying or lower pssge Le Brekown Strem Intermittent strem Unerlying or presume strem pth Pool Wterfll So strws Legen Too tight To Holy Shit Pit Stltites Stlgmites Columns Rimstone Crystls / Spr Flowstone Clim up Clim up 75 n Doule Wterflls High Low High High High 55 Low Low Low Pit or lege Chnge in eiling height Flowstone lege Slope D Depth elow entrne Flowstone in profile 77 Perl Room Clim up to No Nme Pit level f Egg Dome Lower level t Egg Dome mi level 100 Climle leges To Strem Pssge e To No Nme Pit Egg Dome upper level Climle leges 93 The Glop Slot j mu slopes 76 Climle leges The Glop Slot Juntion Room 80 Nees survey 105 83 f 69 Drippy Dome open pssge 65 l Little White Mountin f e e 54 105
The Doule Domes Re Rok Dome Munter Pith Tom Room Crousel Room The Woly Rok The Weing Cke No Nme Pit Big Room Hnok Highwy Holy Shit Pit Perl Room Juntion Room The Little White Mountin Jump ross Doule Wterflls The Egg Dome Simplifie Profile looking South-Est Dnelion root formtion The Fr Rehes The Weing Cke FANTASY CAVE The Little White Mountin Juntion Room Huntingon County, Pennsylvni Pge 2 of 2 The Egg Dome 0 50 100 Legen e Ceiling height Pit / rop epth Strem Intermittent strem Stltites Stlgmites High Low High Low Pit or lege Chnge in eiling height Simplifie Profile looking North Est Unsurveye / presume imensions Unerlying or lower pssge Unerlying or presume strem pth Pool Columns Rimstone High High Low Low Flowstone lege Slope Le Wterfll Crystls / Spr 55 Depth elow entrne Brekown So strws Flowstone Flowstone in profile
White Nose Synrome: Chek for Errti Bt Ativity y Ken Tymn Frnklin County Grotto hs volunteere to ssist with survey of t hiernul monitoring erly t emergene n errti tivity. Sine we knew MFen Cve hs 100+ ts tht hiernte there, we offere to mke severl heks uring the Ferury-Mrh timefrme. Ferury 17, 2010. Ken Jones n Ken Tymn rove up to She Gp to hek for tivity. There ws out 2 feet of snow on the groun n we tully h slightly iffiult time fining the entrne. Finlly we foun the one foot y 3 foot rk in the snow tht ws MFen. There ws no sign of ts or tivity. Ken Jones heking MFen for errti t tivity. photo y Ken T. Ferury 24, 2010 Gory fter quik peek into ve to see if ts were gthering ner the entrne. I reeive ll from Gory volunteering to go up n mke nother hek. He h some time on his hns n wnte to get out n esies he never een to the ve n woul like to see the entrne. We rove up n notie signifint snow melt h ourre n the entrne ws lerly visile. There ws no sign of ts or t tivity. One of the things we oul o ws to tke peek just insie to seen if ts h move loser to the entrne. He gre his helmet n light n slippe in few feet. He sw one t ut ouln t get lose enough to see it lerly. 19
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