Change to Gold Line at Madison Blue Springs

Yesterday my good buddy Jim Clark helped me measure & mark the Gold line. We put a large gold arrow every 100', and new double arrows on the jumps.

FYI from the rabbit hole its 75' to the stop sign, 200 to the Godzilla Line, 550' to the Martz jump, 1200' to the Mount offshoot, and 1575' to the end-of-line.

We cut back the lines at the end & made them short jumps. Those are not intro level tunnels.

Near the end of our third dive we noticed the line that jumps from the gold line at 400' (goes to what was the century tunnel) was slack, so we did not mark it. I plan to go back Tuesday & repair or replace that line.

Thanks for all your help Jim, you are a great dive buddy.

Sounds good, can't wait to check it out. Thanks for the effort guys.
Have a good time and a safe dive,
Alan

Always enjoy diving Madison, and diving with you as well my good friend. Thanks for inviting me to help you make cave diving a little safer. BTW, Lance paid for the new line arrows out of his own pocket

Jim Clark

I did the first few hunderd feet up the mainline today. Nice goldline placement, easy to follow. System was beautiful. The guys I was diving with are limited to sixths so we didn't get too far but I liked what I saw.

Thanks for all the work in this system guys. I'm going to enjoy learning this cave over the rest of the year.

I was in Madison about 2 weeks ago. The new line was nice. There are a few cinder blocks that used to be used for tie-offs but are now just kinda sitting in the main path, doing nothing. Any chance they could be removed form the system? They look so unnatural in there.

Thanks for all the hard work guys!

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I was in Madison about 2 weeks ago. The new line was nice. There are a few cinder blocks that used to be used for tie-offs but are now just kinda sitting in the main path, doing nothing. Any chance they could be removed form the system? They look so unnatural in there.

Thanks for all the hard work guys!

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We did use one more of them Friday to clean up a run I was not happy with. That does leave one sitting there one top of the hill all by itself. I will either use it elsewhere or remove it soon. They really are a pain in the a** to move around in there. But Jim got an idea from a friend to wrap a Poodle-jacket BC around it, and that works pretty good.

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Originally Posted by Jason B.

I was in Madison about 2 weeks ago. The new line was nice. There are a few cinder blocks that used to be used for tie-offs but are now just kinda sitting in the main path, doing nothing. Any chance they could be removed form the system? They look so unnatural in there.

Thanks for all the hard work guys!

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We did use one more of them Friday to clean up a run I was not happy with. That does leave one sitting there one top of the hill all by itself. I will either use it elsewhere or remove it soon. They really are a pain in the a** to move around in there. But Jim got an idea from a friend to wrap a Poodle-jacket BC around it, and that works pretty good.

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Oh , much THANKS for the distance arrows too !!! :-D
We were just in there this morning (Monday) and it looks spiffy with the new arrows on it. :wink:
I noticed the block you were talking about. Just kind of sitting there , biding it's time.

THANKS AGAIN to all !!!!

Jeano Beano

P.S. I BET those blocks are a pain to move around...UFFDA

Last week we extended the Gold line almost to the main entrance, and relocated the Stop sign to be visible from the rabbit hole. The stop sign is also a good place to secure a line if you are going to cross-under.

We also relined the Godzilla run, & marked the distances.

The Martz line & the Mount off-shoot will be re-lined in the near future.

There is also a new "back alley" that bypasses the Godzilla jump. Has anyone noticed it yet?

Jim Clark was my buddy on this part of the project as well as on all the other Gold line work. Thanks Jim.

Claudia Milz, Tom Pearsy, and Mike from Cave Excursions, have also assisted on this project to-date.

I noticed the new line on the Godzilla circuit, thick stuff! The line is very well placed, good job and thanks for your work on this.

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We also relined the Godzilla run, & marked the distances.

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Good improvements. The area where the end of the line comes back to itself is particularly well layout right now. It makes it a lot smoother to cookie or connect the two lines.

That new line is thick. What size is that ? Any reason to go for something that thick ?