Caving in New York

Arriving in the Historic Catskill Mountains hoping for cooler weather.







Unfortunatly, it was 95 and climbing.











Emma came over Sunday morning to help with our big breakfast.











Here is Rich, the brave one, going into the cave first.











One last final check of their gear before heading in.











Sandi walking the river through Perry Avenue. Water temps below 50 while we estimated cave temp at 48.













Taking a quick warming rest, Emma, Rich and Elanore.











Just one of the tight spots and this one wasn't a bad one. We couldn't take any photos in the smaller crawls for obvious reasons.











Coming out of a crawl into a comfortable sized cavern. In this cave a cavern is defined as any space you can stand











Found some great rock formations on a slide which is one of the places we actually found by mistake. It turned out to be a dead end but well worth the extra effort.















Four and a half hours later we had explored 80% of the cave. Emma and Elanore left us at the halway point before we got into the harder part of the cave. Soaked up to our necks in mud, rock and cold water we had a great exploration.