Silt Monsters?

[skip]

Forrest brought his maps up today & it looks to me, the place we were at is adjacent to the the Mud Room Tunnel.
We were on a short line called the Nuble Run Line.
Along the line is a notation that says silt, which is differently correct.
We saw this line off to the side & had not seen it before so, thought we would check it out.
It doesnt go any where, just from point A to point B & ends, evidently an old survey line.
The map is signed by Richard M. Gunter.
The map is very nice & detailed but, does have some flaws.

Mike M

It's on past the mud tunnel - begins about where the mud tunnel rejoins the mainline.

-skip

[Mike]

Your right Skip, It was a little past the Mud Tunnel, about 50 ft.or so & on the right going in, yes, no?

Mike M

[rchrds]

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

If you are insane it is barely posiable (sidemount/no-mount) to squeeze thru a restriction at the "end" there and up a sand slide to come back up to the 60' level back near the start of the wormhole circuit. (if you don't get buried and die in the sand slide).

Ohh-ohh I know that place- I tried to get DOWN through the sand slide once. Won't try that again. I didnt know you could get to it from the bottom. Hmmmm.

Jason

[Gary]

If you are insane it is barely posiable...

Ohh-ohh I know that place- Hmmmm.

There is no-one more qualified then you for the trip.

Probably easier from the bottom I'd think but I did it from the top and plowed thru the last 5-10' once I got burried by the slide. At the bottom the line was running pretty much upto the hole. Round trip is <50cuft of air I think.

From the bottom I'm not sure... once body plugs the hole whether the slide would end up better or worse. No mount you might avoid the slide entirely (at least you might) if you can avoid touching the sand and getting it moving but I would imagine if you got thru the hole from the bottom you would be good to exit up.

Don't get dead.

[rchrds]

If you are insane it is barely posiable...

Ohh-ohh I know that place- Hmmmm.

There is no-one more qualified then you for the trip.

Probably easier from the bottom I'd think but I did it from the top and plowed thru the last 5-10' once I got burried by the slide. At the bottom the line was running pretty much upto the hole. Round trip is <50cuft of air I think.

From the bottom I'm not sure... once body plugs the hole whether the slide would end up better or worse. No mount you might avoid the slide entirely (at least you might) if you can avoid touching the sand and getting it moving but I would imagine if you got thru the hole from the bottom you would be good to exit up.

Don't get dead.

That place is the closest I have ever come. I tried to go down the hole- got my shoulders through, decided I wouldnt fit, and then tried to back out. Yea. That didn't go so well. Keep in mind this was before there was line in there. I was trying to lay line in that thing, and didn't know if it continued or not. So if there is line there now, someone has made it. or perhaps they threw the reel through. That would be a woodyesque trick.

J

[Gary]

The line at the bottom was run in from the other side and stops on the other side - doesn't go thru.

Want to run line thru? Put a kite on the end of your line from the bottom and let the flow run it out.

[rchrds]

Want to run line thru? Put a kite on the end of your line from the bottom and let the flow run it out.

There are people (or a person) known for tying a rock to the end of the line and tossing it through a hole that was just small enough you couldn't get through- so after you fought your way to the end of the line (almost always completely miserable) The line would continue- it always left you wondering if he had really made it through there....

J

[Gary]

Or a line attached to a speargun. Heard about that one too.