Carroll Cave Reports Blog
1/14/12 – Report from Trip to: CarrollPassage
Permit #: 1201-1 Trip Leader name: Bill Gee Trip date: 14 January 2012 Project manager: Bill Gee Trip purpose: Biology, data logger service Areas of Cave visited: CarrollPassage Trip participants: Bill Gee - Nathan Taylor - David Ashley - Shelly Field Entry Time: 9:50 am Exit Time: 4:30 pm The trip report: The original goal of this trip was to download and service all of the stream level data loggers. Once per year in January I try to hit all of the loggers at once. This makes it possible to create a one year graph for the previous year. When Dr. Ashley indicated an interest in the trip, I quickly changed it to a biology project trip which would also hit the data loggers. Everyone made this a day trip. Nathan and I met at the farm store in Harrisonville a few minutes after 6:00 am. From there it was an easy drive to the cave. We arrived at the schoolhouse about 8:30 am to find no one else was there. Since I needed to do some work on the rain gauge logger, we decided...
10/22/2011 – Field Phone Installation
Permit #: 1110-2B Trip Leader name: Cyle Riggs & Andy Isbell Trip date: Oct/22/2011 Trip purpose: Field Phone Installation Areas of Cave visited: Upstream Thunder Trip participants: Cyle Riggs, Andy Isbell, Mike Camden, Greg Herin, Kayla New, Pradeep Sapkota, Joshua Shock Entry Time: 11:30 AM Exit Time: 9:00 PM The trip report: Friday night, on the way to Carroll Mike Camden (a Communications Technician for the US Army) and myself stopped at the Fire Station in Camdenton to inspect the field phone gear and retrieve a working set. We found 2/3 of the phones to be in good condition and took one of two 1/2 mile spools of military comm wire. While there Mike Camden trained myself and the two on duty employees at the fire station on how to use the phones as we tested them. The operation of the phones is quite simple: 1. The handsets are attached to the same piece of comm wire. No specific polarity is required on attaching the wires. The wires are attached with the sprung...
10/29/11 – Annual bat count Carroll river trip
Permit #: 1110-3 Trip Leader name: Bill Gee Trip date: 10/29/2011 Project manager: Bill Gee Trip purpose: Annual bat census in Carroll Passage Areas of Cave visited: CarrollPassage Trip participants: Bill Gee, Jamie Euliss, Charlie Rey, Janet Witteried, Pete Witteried Entry Time: 10:20am Exit Time: 7:30pm The trip report: This trip is the annual bat census and biology survey that we do every year around the end of October. I drove down Friday after work and camped at the schoolhouse. Pete and Janet arrived about 815 Saturday morning. Charlie and Jamie were a bit late, arriving about an hour later. We talked for a few minutes, then headed up the hill. Everyone geared up, with the first person dropping into the cave about 10:20. We were all in by 10:35. I took the opportunity to download the rain gauge data logger while we were gearing up. In the cave I also downloaded the barometric reference and Thunder River data logger. When we passed the data logger in Carroll...
10/22/2011 – Short KCAG Grotto Trip
Permit No. 1110-2 B Submitted by Rick Hines 10/22/2011 Permit #: 1110-2 A TRIP NAME Long Cyle Riggs Leader Long Andy Isbell Leader Long Greg Herin Long Joshua Shock Long Kayla New Long Pradeep Sapkota Long Dennis Novicky Long Mike Camden 10/22/2011 Permit #: 1110-2 B TRIP NAME Short Rick Hines Leader Short Casey Evans Short Lori Schultz Short Don Meier Short Janet Meier ... This trip was originally planned to be a Kansas City Area Grotto, KCAG, trip into Carroll per the CCC’s policy that allows grottos an annual introductory trip for the grotto members. As the trip evolved it became clear that there would be more new CCC members than non-CCC, KCAG members. As it turned out, Greg Herin, a KCAG member, was the only caver signed up for the trip that was not a CCC member. Soon we had 13 cavers signed up for the trip necessitating a second trip and two trip leaders. Cyle Riggs and Andy Isbell offered to lead a trip to the mapped end of Upper Thunder while Rick would lead a...
10/16/2011 – Work trip in Cave
Trip Report: Landowner Trip 10/16/2011 Permit No. 1011-1C Submitted by Rick Hines In Cave Surface Help Andy Isbell Leader Bill Pfantz Cyle Riggs Rick Hines Mike Smoker Nathan Taylor Elliot Skinner The trip was originally planned to be a landowner trip but three days before the trip the landowners on the Sunday trip canceled out. Rick went ahead with the trip thinking that some of the landowners might change their mind and also to give new CCC members, Nathan Taylor and Elliot Skinner, a chance to see the cave. Since the purpose of the trip was no longer a landowner trip Rick planned to build steps at the upper Thunder River end of the breakdown pile near the Angel Pool Passage for our service project on this trip. On an earlier trip with the Cave Pirates and we had unsuccessfully attempted to build the steps. Rick was prepared with a large pry bar for this trip. With a larger crew and the pry bar we were able to roll several large rocks off the higher of two small cliffs at the...
10/15/2011 – Annual Landowners Trip
Trip Report: Landowner Trip 10/15/2011 Permit No. 1110-1A and 1110-1B Submitted by Rick Hines In Cave Help Surface Help Guest DJ Hall Leader Mike Smoker Jacqualin Hill (Hunter’s mother) Cyle Riggs Leader Bill Pfantz Hunter Hill (8) Rick Hines Danny Cottrell (Shaw’s Father) Brandy Riggs Shawn Cottrell (10) Chandra Ruff Keith Mader Andrew Manson Juliane Shaw During the year Jenny Fry collects names of friends and neighbors that express an interest in seeing Carroll Cave. This year just prior to the trip we were expecting 11 guests on Saturday and six guests on Sunday. A few days prior to the trip we were down to nine guests on Saturday and zero on Sunday. When I arrived on Saturday morning I learned that we were only expecting six guests. A...
7/30/11 – CCC Annual Members meeting
2011 CCC Members Meeting, Camdenton, MO USA Click for full size picture
6/27/2011 – Ben wins grad. international award!
A well desreved honor for one of our own http://wkunews.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/wku-grad-wins-international-award/ Good Job Ben! 12/2010 - Masters Theses & Specialist Projects The Hydrology of the Carroll Cave-Toronto Springs System: Identifying and Examining Source Mixing through Dye Tracing, Geochemical Monitoring, Seepage Runs, and Statistical Methods This is a link to Ben Millers Masters Theses project on Carroll Cave
3/25-26/2011 – Arkansas Cave Pirate Weekend at Carroll
Permit #: 0311-1A Trip Leader name: Andy Isbell Trip date: 3/25/2011 Project manager: Restoration Trip purpose: Improve trail below Thunder Falls, Pirate intro Areas of Cave visited: CarrollPassage Trip participants: Patric Reedy, Holly Reedy, James McKnight, Sherry McKnight, Ben Porter, Susan Milum Entry Time: 12:05pm Exit Time: 6:00pm The trip report: Arkansas Cave Pirate Weekend at Carroll, March 25-26, 2011 Trip Report By Rick Hines with Upper Thunder report by Bill Gee Andy Isbell and I camped at the schoolhouse Thursday night in preparation for Friday and Saturday Carroll trips for the Cave Pirates, a group of Cavers I met at Ennis Cave in Arkansas. Originally a nonmember trip was offered the Cave Pirates but due to their desire to take minors and do multiple trips the Pirates joined the CCC. (The CCC policy on nonmember trips should be updated to clarify our policy on minors and multiple trips in a weekend). Fourteen Cave Pirates joined the CCC. The following...
Stream Level graphs – full year 2010
This message contains graphs shows the full year of stream level graphs for 2010. Some explanation is required. The rainfall graph is composed of three data sets. The line sections that go down indicate where the data changes from one set to the next. You have to visually "stack" the three sections of the graph to see how the rainfall accumulated over the year. Rainfall is shown as a cumulative total. When the graph is going up, it is raining. A horizontal graph is no rain. The graph for the Carroll River logger has a long flat spot in the middle, running from late May through early October. The flood in mid-May knocked the logger off of its anchor and up onto a rock shelf. The result is the logger was out of the water for that entire time. The spikes in the cave air temperature graph are from handling the logger while downloading. Ignore them. 2010-CarrollRiver.pdf 2010-CaveAirTemperature.pdf 2010-OutsideAirTemperature.pdf 2010-Rainfall.pdf 2010-ThunderRiver.pdf...