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| Entrance to Exit 1 Cave. If you were hitch-hiking on an interstate entrance ramp, you could see this cave. | Frank Gieske heading out.....Exit 1 Cave | The beautiful 'ramp' approach to Big Spring Cave. We were careful not to walk on them. |
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| Entrance to Big Spring Cave | Big Spring Cave | Jeff near the top of the waterfalls |
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| Lake at the top | Ehren Gieske climbing down the waterfalls | Beautiful flow stone column behind a four foot pool of water |
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| Exit to Big Spring Cave | Entrance to Cole Hole Cave. This cave is right beside a highway and under a car lot. | A rock and water crawl inside |
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| Exit.....Cole Hole Cave | A wayward caver....aren't we all? | Jeff's newly built cabin |
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| Very comfortable accomodations | Wet cave suits drying | Haynes Cave, entrance....a climb down. |
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| Maria Gieske crawled in this hole and decided to come back out.....Hey? Is she coming or going? | Saltpeter workings. This bridge was built over a 100 years ago, and still supports cavers. | This windlass was used to haul water up over 60 feet, to help produce saltpeter. |
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| Exit cave to the far left, a climb-up | Neel Insurgence | Neel Insurgence |
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| Neel Insurgence | Exit Neel Insurgence | Neel Cave entrance |
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| Neel Cave entrance room | Neel Cave, left extension | Neel Cave, left extension |
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| In main trunk passage, just past entrance room | Exit.....Neel Cave | Neel Cave 2, a small cave some of us didn't go into |
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| Fletcher Cave entrance | Nice formation | Upper level gallery |
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| Upper level gallery | Taking a break | Pit entrance on stream passage |
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| Pit entrance on stream passage | Exit.....Fletcher Cave | Sinkhole entrance to Steele's Cave |
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| Sinkhole entrance to Steele's Cave | Steele's Cave | Stream exit to Steele's Cave |
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| Stream exit to Steele's Cave | Steele's Cave (Taggard Entrance) | Steele's Cave |
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| Steele's Cave (Taggard Exit) | Clay Cave, right beside the road. | Formations in Clay Cave |
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| Clay Cave entrance room | Entrance to Beacon. For more pictures of Beacon, see the Beacon link on the home page | Lorton Lick entrance. |
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| Lorton Lick exit. | Lorton Lick, (photo taken from a side passage). | |