Caving: Kennamer and Kenna Pit

Dear Lord, it's been a month or so since the last post. Sorry about that, I got distracted.

So... caving. Last I posted about a little cave up on Green Mountain. Well, we finally (started tackling) the 9-hour monster that is Kennamer Cave in Woodville, AL. The first trip has been over a month ago so it's hard to detail but the few moments that stand out are falling 15 feet and gashing my leg open and a novice spelunker bitching half way through and demanding to be escorted out the way we came.

It's gargantuan. We didn't make it all the way through because well, fifty feet of rope doesn't get you to all the places you need to go. We've finally invested in 230 ft. of rope. The maiden voyage with the new rope took us down a 170 ft. pit... and then back up again after we found the passages flooded. This was another part of the same cave, it has 6 entrances and exits and this pit is one of them.

Ascending in a cave is some task. It involves two pieces of equipment that can only be pushed up the rope. You hang your foot in a loop hanging from the top "ascender" and then the bottom one it attached to your harness. You slide the top one up and then stand in the loop and the bottom one slides up with your body... or... it's supposed to.

You would think hanging several dozen feet in the air on a teeny tiny rope would be scary... but not really.

Anyway, that's a post to get back in the habit of posting. Next two entries: Atlanta road trip and unemployed in a recession.