Cassell Cave, WV

A lot of my underground time lately has been spent in Cassell Cave, Pocahontas Co., WV, with the Gangsta Mappers. It's a large cave with a great diversity of characteristics from big stream canyon to low crawling, fairly technical vertical work to sporting scrambles. Cassell was mapped back in the mid-1960's and came in at about 6.63 miles of total passage. We have been remapping this cave with modern equipment to generate a much more accurate, three-dimensional map of the cave. At this point, just shy of six miles have been resurveyed and we anticipate another two or three miles to go. I have compiled a set of Survey Statistics for Cassell.

Cassell Trip Reports

• Once More from the Claw Room, (part 12), May 17, 2003
• When the Going Gets Wurst..., (part 11) and Accident Report, Sept 21, 2002
• Back on the Horse the Threw Me, (part 10), July 20, 2002
• Snap, Crackle, Pop: Adventures in the Claw Room, (part 9), April 20, 2002
• Bratwurst and Beyond, Cassell Cave Survey (Part 8), WV, Jan 19, 2002
• Beyond Medville Falls (part 7), WV, Nov. 17, 2001
• The Ascent of Medville Falls, Bolt climbing in Cassell Cave, WV, Sept 15, 2001
• Cassell Survey (part 5), WV, July 21, 2001
• Windy-Cassell tourist trip, WV, June 23, 2001
• Cassell Survey (part 4), WV, May 2001.
• Another survey trip to Cassell Survey (part 3), WV, Feb 2001.
• More surveying at Cassell Survey (part 2), WV, November, 2000.
• Surveying in Cassell Cave (part 1), WV with the Gangsta Mappers. Sept 2000.
  

Photos of various Cassell trips can be found here.

Tim with the big wedding cake at Whiting's Neck.	Bats at Smokehole Cave, KY.
Mike near Crooked Creek Ice Cave, KY.	More Photos

Other Caves

• ER-NCRC Orientation to Cave Rescue at Bowden, Nov. 16-17, 2002
• Friars Hole Cave and Crookshank Pit, Sept 27-29, 2002
• The Airblower of Hamilton Cave, WV, June 29, 2002
• MD Caves II: Dam #4 and Two Locks, June 23, 2002
• Maryland Caves: A scouting trip, June 16, 2002
• Survivor: Bowden, a "spring" break trip, March 23-24, 2002
• The Morning After in Sinnett-Thorn Cave, WV, Jan 20, 2002
• New Year, Old Cave, Whitings Neck again, Jan 1, 2002
• Bowden Cave through-trip, WV, Sept 9, 2001
• Pine Hill Cave, KY, Mar 20, 2001.
• New Territory in Whitings Neck, WV, Jan 21, 2001. Photos!
• A beginner trip to Donaldson Cave, WV, Oct. 2000. Now with pictures!
• A fascinating time was had digging at Alaina P. Cave in WV. July 2000.
• Trout and New Trout Caves were explored at the June, 2000 CCC in Pendelton County, WV. Photos!
• An expedition to Smokehole Cave, the one in Rockcastle County, KY, April 22, 2000. Photos! Mike also has a Smokehole report.
• J-4 Cave, Central PA. October 17, 1999.
• Whitings Neck Cave, Berkeley County, WV. May 2, 1999. Everyone's favorite cave, or at least the most visitted cave in the area. I've taken four or five groups through here and know it pretty well by now. Gary Truslow also has a Whiting's Neck Report.
• Mike's Crooked Creek Ice Cave trip report (Rockcastle, KY). February, 1996. With photos!

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