Conar Outdoors Page
One place we enjoy going to is the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Its beauty is
breathtaking! Christy and I enjoy the trails, and especially getting off the
beaten path. We might cross the river using boulders as stepping stones, climb
(low-risk climbing), get out on swinging bridges. Anne prays while we act crazy!
In the Smokies, we have camped, picnicked, and just driven to enjoy sight-seeing.
Christy and I love getting out in the middle of the woods and roughing it.
We might just see who can skip a rock across the water. Once I thought I
found a nice rock. When I bent down to examine it closer, I accidentally
stuck my finger through the material. It was a yellow jacket nest!! I froze!
Luckily, I didn't get stung!
Oh, the serenity of the great outdoors!
Another place I have gone is inside a cave. These are not pictures
of the caves I have been in. I didn't take a camera along.
However, I have see much of the same formations as shown in these
pictures. The caves were raw caves.
The man who initiated the trips also taught with me in Youth Sunday School. His name is Robert McCaleb, an engineer. Robert is a cave mapper. He would survey an area using a special compass and someone holding a flashlight in certain points. He would do some
math, then sketch the area using lines and notes as to the size of the area; crawlspace, or large room, for example.
In the Alabama cave (not pictured), he took along another caver.
Now, mind you, the two of them are serious cavers. It's like running into
someone who can talk intimately about a sport, these men sound like scientists
to me when they start their lingo! I was just along for the ride. And what a trip
we had. There were several large rooms, and some crawl spaces.