Prince of Wales Island, Alaska 2024 caving trip
This past summer, I escaped Albuquerque for a month long caving trip, July 6 to August 4. The first 2 weeks I spent on Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska, and the second 2 weeks I spent at Tears of the Turtle Cave in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana. This post is about all that I got up to for those first 2 weeks in Alaska: first, a bigger organized trip the first week with 12 people (Reilly Blackwell, Ian Clarke, Christian DeCelle, John Dunham, Amelia Fatykhova, Anna Harris, Jared Higgins, Hannah Keith, Michael Ketzner, Alex Lyles, Gooseberry Peter, and myself. Then a smaller, less organized week of caving the second week, with just Christian, Reilly, Michael and myself. Prince of Wales Island is a large island (larger than Delaware) off the coast of Alaska, at the southern tip of its panhandle. It is a lush, wet, green temperate rainforest, not unlike the rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Not full of barren snow-capped mountains as many people im