Oregon High Desert Grotto
Hey this is Matt Skeels giving you an update on my book:
The Horse Lava Tube System book project is for the most part an effort entirely by myself. That said, I've had help from fellow cavers to help survey some of the caves in the past. Special thanks goes to: Geoff MacNaughton, Jeremy Wendelin, Jonathan Skeels, Doug Marchant, Damon Marchant, and Russ Yoder.
The Horse Lava Tube System book has become a two book series. The first book will be a bibliography. I'm trying to make it as comprehensive as possible. That means even minor mentions of the Horse system found in publications will be included in my bibliography. The current draft has over 50 pages. It will be directly published in pdf format, with a small order of paper prints.
The second book will be a more detailed look at the system and each cave. The emphasis will be the history of the system and will include maps and a small collection of photos. This book will be made into a hard copy. Perhaps later down the road (much, much later) I can do a third part to the series that will include both books and expand on a lot things like aerial photo history, more photos of the caves, and other things that may develop as time passes.
I have six caves left to survey. Here's they are in order of importance:
Update: 7-11-2010
- Johnson Farm Cave No. 1 (lengthy survey)
- Dos Liebres Cave (medium survey)
- Barking Dog Cave (somewhat easy)
- Pop & Son Cave (medium)
- Tin Can Cave (somewhat easy, but entrance is now buried with rock)
- Airport Cave (easy)
Here are some caves that have been surveyed in the past few years:
- Rabbit Cave
- Low Bowl Cave
- Skin Cave
- Mushroom Cave (with Nyhl Skeels)
- I.D. Cave
- Pronghorn Caves I & II
- Stairstep Cave
- Covet Caves (1 & 2)
- Spatter Cone Caves (with Nyhl Skeels)
- Wilson Cave (with Jonathan Skeels)
- Doppelganger Cave (with Jonathan Skeels)
- North Wilson Cave (with Jonathan Skeels)
- Braille Cave (with Geoff MacNaughton)
- Vulture Cave (with Geoff MacNaughton)
- Stevens Road Cave (with Geoff MacNaughton)
- Williams Cave (with Geoff MacNaughton)
- Three Pines Cave (with Geoff MacNaughton)
- Garbage Cave No. 1 (with Geoff MacNaughton)
- Garbage Cave No. 2 (with Geoff MacNaughton)
- Davenport Cave (with Geoff MacNaughton)
As always, I'm eager to learn about possible leads for the Horse Lava Tube System, if you have info on new caves, or some history on existing caves, send me an email at: horselavatubesystem.@.gmail.com (remove the periods surrounding the @ symbol)