Telford 6/28

If you're wanting to do Telford, now is the time to make it happen! I was there yesterday and it was awesome!

River level is up quite a bit, and the river is flowing like a champ - heading up river to the entrance was slow going, even with the scooter cranked up. Once you get to the spring run, however, you can stay on the trigger all the way to the cave entrance. No shallow or dry spots to contend with -- and the current water level makes the entrance look gorgeous!

Near the entrance the viz is easily 50+ and slightly tannic, but clears the further back you go.

Flow is easy going inside the cave - makes for a nice and relaxed swimming. We didn't do any jumps, but the main line is nice and pretty.

Made for the biggest post dive smile I've had in a while!

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Originally Posted by TotDoc

If you're wanting to do Telford, now is the time to make it happen! I was there yesterday and it was awesome!

River level is up quite a bit, and the river is flowing like a champ - heading up river to the entrance was slow going, even with the scooter cranked up. Once you get to the spring run, however, you can stay on the trigger all the way to the cave entrance. No shallow or dry spots to contend with -- and the current water level makes the entrance look gorgeous!

Near the entrance the viz is easily 50+ and slightly tannic, but clears the further back you go.

Flow is easy going inside the cave - makes for a nice and relaxed swimming. We didn't do any jumps, but the main line is nice and pretty.

Made for the biggest post dive smile I've had in a while!

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Just the dive I've been wanting to do for a few weeks. I've only had subdays free lately and have wanted to avoid locals. Sounds like its really nice not having to get up and walk across the land bridge


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Went and dove it today. River is definitely flowing so the scooter ride up river was on full blast. I'd day vis today was 35 ft and really hazy. As usual, even with clean finning it was easy to stir up a little silt on the walls. First time I've ever felt flow in there. It was a nice dive. I love the rifts section.
New gold line looks nice. Are the old looking line arrows historical markers. Some of them looked beat to hell and I cant imagine they got that beat up since the new gold line went in.

Props to the gold line team. I suspect pulling and replacing the line led to alot of low or no viz.

Nobody at the boat ramp all day and only a few people at the spring run when we finished the dive.


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Thanks for the gold line compliments. It was definitely a lot of work. Win Brown did an excellent job of relaying the line. I had the easy job of rolling the old line back up on large electrical cord reels. :-) Yes some of the arrows that were left on the line were historical markers. We tried to leave whatever we could. We replaced the worst of the arrows which were the ones that were broken or about to break and those that broke in half when removing from the line.

Believe it or not the silt wasn't that bad of an issue. It got dusty in places but never bad enough that you had to OK the line. The flow was fun fighting on the way in though. The best part was crawling down the spring run. We looked like beached whales. There was just enough water where you could almost swim down it. Would have been easier to take the gear off but we managed. :-)

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Originally Posted by rddvet

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Glad you made it up there! Looks like the conditions were still good, too!

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Originally Posted by TracyN

Thanks for the gold line compliments. It was definitely a lot of work.

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Major thumbs up, you guys. It looks really nice.