Ogle Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park

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Published 2023-11-25
A permitted work trip was made into Ogle Cave for the purposes of changing out radon monitors and re-flagging the trail. Ogle has a 180-foot entrance pit and one of the tallest columns in the world. It also has many guano mining relics that date back to the early 1900s.

For more detailed information on caving techniques, caving gear, and cave projects, visit my website at: www.derekbristol.com/

Caves are delicate and potentially dangerous places. For more information on wild caving, vertical caving techniques, and cave survey, visit the National Speleological Society website:
caves.org/

To find a local grotto (caving club) visit:
caves.org/committee/i-o/grottos/new_grotto_page-v2…

White Nose Syndrome (WNS) is a disease that is devastating to bats. To learn more about what you can do to help, along with information on how to properly decontaminate caving gear, visit:
caves.org/WNS/index.shtml

All Comments (19)
  • @stevemollett6866
    I'm always amazed how different and otherworldly the Carlsbad caves look compared to our Kentucky caves.
  • What a stunning cave. Thank you for the video look at this wonderful under the earth marvel.
  • @michaelh8854
    Thanks so much for the video. Not only is this unique footage that few people in the world can capture but it’s high quality as well and allows us to see more of nature than we previously thought existed.
  • @bruceholroyd7063
    Absolutely stunning! Magnificent video of a cave system I shall never be able to see in person (but wish I could, with the utmost respect for preservation of all the beautiful formations)! Thank You for sharing this incredibly awesome excursion into the Earth!
  • @swbaker8
    you're back! Thanks for another great video
  • @chop6604
    Really nice video Derek, Thanks for taking us along Happy Holidays to you and the Family
  • @cdezzz
    Miss you some what regular updates. I know it’s not a cave, but can we talk you into doing a vid on the slaughter canyon petroglyphs?
  • @syzygy2043
    Absolutely stunning. Required a bit of work to get in (and out), but what a reward you achieved. Thanks for redoing surveys/flagging and situating the radon monitors. I've been trying to work with the environmental 'authorities' in Queensland to do similar in National Park caves and have been knocked back in favour of recreational and scouts cavers. It's very frustrating.
  • @awallner1
    I've been to this one. Years ago. But I took the tourist entrance not the grand entrance you guys took.
  • Love the footage, interested in what you have to say, but hate the music
  • @Maryland_Kulak
    Unelected bureaucrats issue or refuse to issue permits based on their whim. So much for a government by the people for the people etc. Face it. We’re serfs. The only reason you were allowed to have this adventure is you were willing to do the scut work of the people who take a tax payer funded salary to be doing this. Instead, they sit on their asses and get you to do their job for them in return for allowing you to go to a place that, as a tax payer, you technically own.