ANDERSON SPRING
Dove Anderson spring yesterday 4/15/06. I took me three tries to get into it because the flow was incredible coming out of it. After a tough fight using my hands and feet to get in, we picked up the main line and got off to the side out of the flow to get ourselves together some. The permanent line in very old, and it is in need of replacing. It looked like old brown twine. We headed in the cave, the flow was still very, very strong. It was hand over hand the whole way in. The visibilty was real good, 70 - 80'. After dropping off our deco bottles, we went around a few corners before the line dropped straight down thru a big hole. After decending down, we were in a real pretty canyon area, with real high walls, but the fissure we were in was quite narrow. Definately a sidemount cave. We came to a "T" in the line, which we went left, and it was marked with dorf arrows. We continued on until thirds, and turned the dive, and thats when the fun started. The flow was pushing us out so hard that we had to literally drag our hands and feet on the fissue walls to control our ascent. We really took a beating on the way out. And getting out of the mouth of the cave in kinda tricky. We had to go to the far right, then let go and the flow threw us out the mouth. We grabbed large rocks, which either rolled over, or came with us out. It was a workout, but definately worth seeing.
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Originally Posted by Titen
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