On September 25, 2016, Layne, Tracy, and I took another trip to Bluff River Cave. I had been to this cave once before, but I’d really forgotten how pretty it is. The cave has a little mud slide at the entrance, and there’s some stream walking, but…
On September 10, 2016, I took a caving trip with the Huntsville Grotto. We planned to go to one private cave, but we couldn’t find the landowner to get permission, so we headed to Herring Cave in Madison County. It’s an easy walk from the road to…
For the second half of my three week trip out West in August 2016, I went to the Flat Tops of northern Colorado. I love this mountain range because the flat-topped mountains are unique and the area is just really pretty. The weather was bad for the…
The Beartooth Plateau competes with the Winds and the Sierra Nevadas as the prettiest mountain range in North America. Add it to your bucket list.
In August 2016, I had an ambitious plan to spend three weeks in the Rockies. For the first part of the trip, Tracy and I drove from Alabama to the Beartooth Mountains outside of Cooke City, MT. This was where we planned to spend the first week…
On July 9, 2016, we took a trip with the Huntsville Grotto to Perkins Cave in Alabama. This cave is on private property and requires a bit of a hike down the mountain to get to it. There wasn’t much to the cave until we got to…
On June 25, 2016, Layne, Tracy, and I went to check out Stephens Gap Cave. This is another very popular SCCi cave, and the entrances are really pretty. The cave itself is pretty short, but there is one horizontal entrance right next to a vertical entrance, which…
For our international trip in 2016, Scotland looked like a great option. So, in May we loaded up and headed to the Scottish Highlands. The plan was basically to drive around almost all of Scotland, explore the countryside, and day hike whenever we found a nice trail. …
On May 14, 2016, we headed up to Stratton Bald, The original plan was to backpack, but the forecast for the night was not good, so we decided to car camp and then day hike up to the bald on Sunday. We explored around on Saturday, and…
On May 7, 2016, Tracy and I went with the Huntsville Grotto to Blue Spring Cave in Tennessee. At about 38 miles, Blue Spring is the ninth longest cave in the United States, and the longest in Tennessee. It’s on private property and it’s securely gated, so…
