Cave exploration trip reports

The Chandelier Ballroom in Lechuguilla Cave

Planet Earth isn't supposed to look like this.

Sep 10 • 

Alex Fischer

5

July 2025

Return to Midnight Junction in Fort Stanton Cave

10 miles and 12 hours from the surface of the Earth, a spectacular and unique cave branches out into many unexplored, inviting passages.

Jul 12 • 

Alex Fischer

1

June 2025

Lechuguilla

3 days in a beautiful and hot cave

Jun 14 • 

Alex Fischer

6

4

March 2025

Rescue at Parks Ranch, and Spirit World in Carlsbad Caverns

Last Friday March 21st was a long, eventful day.

Mar 26 • 

Alex Fischer

5

1

February 2025

Tears of the Turtle Cave, 2024 expedition, part 1

The deepest cave in the US gets even deeper! Many mishaps along the way.

Feb 10 • 

Alex Fischer

3

October 2024

Prince of Wales Island, Alaska 2024 caving trip

2 weeks of caving in the rainforest

Oct 1, 2024 • 

Alex Fischer

3

June 2024

Break testing my homemade caving harness

I use a homemade harness for caving, rather than any commercially available one.

Jun 28, 2024 • 

Alex Fischer

2

Caving in the Grand Canyon: Silent River Cave

This past Memorial Day Weekend (May 24-28), I went on a caving trip in the Grand Canyon.

Jun 16, 2024 • 

Alex Fischer

1

Snowy River passage in Fort Stanton Cave—scientific sample collection and exploration

The other weekend, May 18-20, I did a 3 day camp trip in Fort Stanton Cave, just 3 hours away from Albuquerque.

Jun 1, 2024 • 

Alex Fischer

1

October 2023

New paper out now! "Hardness results for decoding the surface code with Pauli noise"

The other week I came out with my first paper since starting grad school: Hardness results for decoding the surface code with Pauli noise, with my…

Oct 2, 2023 • 

Alex Fischer

1

September 2023

Ridgewalking in the North Tetons/Owl Creek area

In the northern reaches of Grand Teton National Park, between Red Mountain and Elk Mountain, lies over 2000 vertical feet of Madison Limestone and an…

Sep 9, 2023 • 

Alex Fischer

1

July 2023

Prince of Wales Island 2023 caving expedition

This past week July 8th thru July 15th, I returned to Prince of Wales Island for a week long caving expedition.

Jul 19, 2023 • 

Alex Fischer

1