After hiking back from our camp in the High Peaks Wilderness Area, Pat and I crashed at 9 PM. I wanted to come back to the mountain, because I'd tried to climb it before with Pat, Ingrid, and my brother, but we started too late and we were all too unprepared, e.g. we brought more beer than food, and bad beer at that.
After climbing the mountain the only other thing I had to do in the Adirondacks to fulfill my other failed attempt was to spelunk Eagle Cave. Eagle Cave is one of the largest caves on the US eastern seaboard. Pat had told my brother, Ingrid, and I when we were there in July that the cave was somewhere near Chimney mountain. It took a long time to find the cave and when we did some other spelunkers told us we would need a rope to pull us out of the cave as there is a 12 foot drop. We also needed headlamps.
So, after returning to the cave with headlamps (which I got from Ghosthunters Academy) and rope, Pat and I explored the cave. We almost got lost in one of the caverns. There were lots of bats trying to sleep and not so happy we were waking them. Some of the bats would fly in front of our faces, then fly away. Pat lost his sweater in the cave and we were both very sad. We were in the cave for six hours.
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