Rocky Horror

[adam0321]

your my new best friend..thank you very much

[Garyd]

Here's a video that may help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbRlA...1&feature=fvwp

Nice video!

[metaldector]

Yes, it is a nice video. I've never gotten back that far in Madison. I'll have to try it.

[w ripley]

If you go thru the RH you will come to the Well, and find a whole new cave that runs parallel to the paved road you drove in on. It is a huge system, with the main tunnel the size of Ginnie in some places, and probably runs 5,000 feet or more upstream and the same downstream. Lots of flow, etc.. The Crossunder tunnel also connects to that parallel cave, so with proofing you can do a circuit.

I've been thru RH a bunch of times, but I have never gone thru as cleanly as that camerman. It really is a nice video and a tribute to nice cave diving, too.

Most people will go in at Martz Sink and "snap-and-gap" over to the main Madison line. That get's you a little farther back and closer to RH than starting at the Rabbit Hole. Check with Wayne at Amigos is you want to learn more about the tunnel on the other end of the RH.

[aainslie]

Sweet video! Thanks, Bill!

[diveconjeff]

I have watched this video more times than I care to count. Doesn't seem to get old


Jeff
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[phreaticus]

The Crossunder Tunnel zig zaggs around a bit, going through several minor restrictions, then pops out into the Aqueduct Tunnel, which is an upstream(left)/downstream(right) part of the systemat the same depth as the Courtyard, approx. 120 ft. We layed about 800 ft. of line downstream there in the early 80's, adding on to Roger Werner's line, in a slight syphon...Mark Long and others added on to this, over the years, out to beyond 6000 ft, I believe. The section we saw was a large, half silt filled phreatic tube, darker walls, not a lot of other features. I'm told if you go left (upstream from the Crossunder junction), the cave is not nearly as pretty as the Courtyard...which is AWESOME cave passage...lots of loops and other leads out to beyond 5500 ft...and COBALT clear water at times. I believeit's about a 1200 ft. swim from the bottom of the Well, at the start of the Courtyard, downstream to the junction of the Crossunder/Aqueduct tunnels, then about 800 ft. or so out to the Rabbit Hole. I have never heard of someone doing the circuit, possibly because of the difficulty of dragging sccoters/stages through the RH and Potters Delight, as well as having to do a setup/route/line confirmation dive from the other way first. Could be fun, would like to hear about it if someone feels froggy enough to do it?

[Red Hat Jef]

Is that an argon bottle hanging on his left side between his body and wing? You can see this best at 4:05 to 4:10 in the video.

[aainslie]

Is that an argon bottle hanging on his left side between his body and wing? You can see this best at 4:05 to 4:10 in the video.

Why do you ask?

[w ripley]

I'm told if you go left (upstream from the Crossunder junction), the cave is not nearly as pretty as the Courtyard...which is AWESOME cave passage...lots of loops and other leads out to beyond 5500 ft...and COBALT clear water at times. I believeit's about a 1200 ft. swim from the bottom of the Well, at the start of the Courtyard, downstream to the junction of the Crossunder/Aqueduct tunnels, then about 800 ft. or so out to the Rabbit Hole. I have never heard of someone doing the circuit, possibly because of the difficulty of dragging sccoters/stages through the RH and Potters Delight, as well as having to do a setup/route/line confirmation dive from the other way first.

It's a nice circuit. My buddy, Jeff Hewlett, and I did it a couple of years ago and put in markers at the "Ts" along the way (5 if I remember correctly). We have been on a permit so could use scooters, but dropped them at the entrance to the RH for the circuit, although we've pushed then thru - with stage bottles - the RH a number of times to scooter upstream from the Well.

If you want to do the circuit then send me a PM (or see my note about Wyane below) and I'll send you the directions at the "Ts" although it's just the first one downstream past the Well that is tricky. The the main stretch between the Well and the Crossunder is called the "Badlands" that runs into the Aqueduct (or maybe it's part of the Aqueduct, I'm not sure). It's not as pretty as upstream from the Well, but it is pretty and it changes a lot. The only hitch is to make sure you hit the Crossunder line or, as you know, there's no way to get out past that (well at least that anyone has found yet).

Go see Wayne as he has the new map and can show you the "Ts" above. He also mentioned that it was being generated digitally, so hopefully more people will have access to it soon.