Mapping A Massive Underground Room and Found The Holy Grail
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Finishing up a Tennessee cave survey that we started a few years back with Marion O. Smith. He had brought us to this one and asked Jason to map it. It was discovered in 2015 by another caver, Nathaniel Mann who took MOS there. Nice little cave but a little bit of a sketchy and still forming entrance. While mapping it, Jason decided to name a chalice looking formation the Holy Grail and we also found a blowing lead but it needs work... Oh yea, and we discovered some nice pieces of Paint Rock Agate that had washed inside the cave as well.
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awesome adventure...really dig the colors in the agate you found...
Thank you 😊
First rate video. My caving career involves probably 40 miles of survey in the book and much of that as sketcher. Jason is a true artist and documenter of the cave. BEAUTIFUL work!! I loath white space too! Love your commentary....very instructive and well thought out before spoken. Closeups and details.... Your trip description starts with SAFETY ....thank you, thank you thank you. From the tensionless rigging on the tree and the attention spent of potential rock fall, raining dirt, and rope pad....to staying clear of the rockfall danger zone. The washed in agate....the correct names of the features and the respect of your environment....shows you to be REAL CAVERS. ( I am so tired of and angered by the insipid commentary of 'adventure junkies who at least on video show no such regard to *pointing out* the avoidable hazards, the correct equipment to use and informed descriptions of your experiences. So much on You Tube will likely get some thoughtless person badly injured or killed. Cavers rescue spelunkers. Yours was a training video.... Again thanks. I miss Marion too.
Thank you. I appreciate all the feedback. I have been enjoying putting together our caving videos and wish I had started sooner. I am trying to show that there is a real side to caving, folks who dedicate their lives to caving and the community, giving back and not just taking. Some of the landowners we meet have also been enjoying my videos so I try to be as respectful as possible as I know they are watching too. I fear that if landowners start seeing some of the "wild videos" out there that it could also close down caves for everyone to access. Marion would be calling them all a flash in the pan, lol.
“I coiled that rope up…tried to do you proud”……. 🦗 crickets… 😂
Me and my wife are opposites also… she is artsy, I’m technical. It’s so cool that both of you agree on caving! You are definitely the verbal one and we love your explanation commentary on caves.
Thank you. I always wonder if I'm talking too much, 🤣
Very beautiful information cave intelligent couple🎉🎉❤❤
Thank you.
Such a fun and informative video. Reminds me of when my dad took me spelunking in Kartchner Caverns before it opened to the public. That state park is his pride and legacy as the Director of Arizona State Parks. I will always treasure my time in the cave.
Oh nice. We have never been to Kartchner Caverns before but if we are ever in that area, we do visit the Show Caves too. I bet your Dad had an amazing job. Thank you
Thanks so much for showing us the meticulous work in mapping a cave. Us surface dwellers, LOL, aren't aware of what it takes. I've recently, to me that is, come across 3D scan apps for the iPhone. I saw one guy using it in a very small desert cave. Then on another page a guy down in a mine using a more sophisticated device to scan it. So much beauty. Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you. It definately takes a lot of work doing it old school but we also prefer it. There is more of an art to it.
Its 7PM Saturday evening, enjoying it watching you cave! Video so good, almost like being there with you.
Thank you. I always wonder if I'm narrating too much. I had another friend recently tell me that she also felt like she was there with me on my videos. 😊
My favorite video sa far. I always learn something. Beautiful cave!
Thank you. I appreciate the comments 😊
😂 how did i miss this! ❤...
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Thanks for the detail on cave mapping! That’s super cool! I noticed that his calculator doesn’t have a USB port or Bluetooth! 😂 The modern laser distance devices are awesome…. But it still takes a very intelligent, patient and artistic person to transform all of that data into a map! Jason’s maps are BEAUTIFUL!
Since the agate is not part of the cave… it washed in, is it taboo to take it out of the cave? ( would require owners permission of course).
Jason definately spends a lot of time on making his maps. Some people think it's too much detail, but he just says there is no white space in a cave and there is always something there to draw. He is very proud of this map since it was a cave that Marion O. Smith liked so much and wanted him to map. You can see some of his other maps on my blog at this link, tagcaver.wixsite.com/undergroundearth/jason-hardy-cartography.
We use the BRIC4 for all our measurements now but we do not use it in conjunction with an electronic device as Jason still prefers to use the paper and pencil. For the agate, I do not see it as being taboo to take out of the cave as it is not natural to the cave and washed in from the surface above. We've walked the creekbed looking for the souce but didn't really find much more on the surface.
Cool video. I have always wondered how cave’s were surveyed and now I know. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and adventure I enjoyed every minute of it. Oh out of curiosity how long or how many times is a rope used before it is considered no longer useable safely?
Thank you. Rope manufacturers will say about 10 years. We always inspect them but we do use them much longer as long as they are still in good shape. We will cut a rope if there is a bad spot.
Pretty wild cave! Love seeing the mapping process too, well done. Aren’t you concerned about rocks raining down inside? Are there any big caves with miles of rooms in this area? And (just one more Q forgive me…) why are the agates coming down from above and not in the cave? Thank you for the adventure.
We are not concerned about rocks falling inside the cave as the limestone inside is pretty stable as the cave is formed by water carving it out over time. The agats are formed in a different formation (not in the cave) and the streambed is washing them out and depositing them just inside the entrance pit. The entracnce was a bit sketch though as it is still forming so we had to be very careful there. You can see on the surface where the creek bed used to flow and it changed directions flowing into this pit changing it and making it unstable. In this area, we literally have thousands of caves. One of Tennessee's oldest commercial caves is not far from this cave and we mapped it about 8 years ago. It has some massive rooms, over 100 feet wide and there is about 3 miles of cave there. We are pretty sure we know which cave this one could connect too further down in the valley if we could ever get through that blowing lead in there. Thank you for your comments as I really appreciate them and thank you for continuing to watch our channel.
@@tag_caver you are always quality content, thank you for that and your answers. One more question 😳 you pointed out the broken stalactite..I noticed big cracks in 2 larger ones- from earthquakes?
@@lindaarchinal9008 Thank you. It's really hard to say what caused them exactly but an earthquake would be my best guess as well. We see things like this sometimes when a cave is near a major road or interstate. Sometimes it can be caused from blasting rocks to make the roads as we have so much limestone here but this one is not close enough for that to have caused it.
No such thing as caves it's all melted buildings. #Meltology