Dan's Caving Page

Ever since I was a kid, I've enjoyed getting underground every chance I've had - storm drains, boulder caves, abandoned mines, show caves, tourist mines, you name it. It wasn't until I took a "wild cave" tour at Mammoth Cave last fall that I realized how much fun the real "down & dirty" caving could be. Once back home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan I started to look around for a local grotto to join, only to find that the nearest Michigan groups were 6 hours away in Lower Michigan. It turned out that the Wisconsin Speleological Society meetings at Chilton were a couple hours closer (and had caving on site!) so I traveled down, joined the grotto & joined in the digging at Ledge View. After a couple afternoons of filling & hoisting buckets, I was privileged to be one of the first dozen or so people to make the belly crawl from Carolyn's Caverns to Mother's Cave. After this great introduction to Wisconsin caving, I was eager to experience more Wisconsin caving. Here are some trip reports from recent WSS grotto trips.

Horseshoe Bay Cave, January 3, 2004

Maribel New Hope Cave, April 3, 2004