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This tremendous vertical pit is 227 feet deep and named Valhalla. Huge pits like this make the Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia (TAG) region famous for going vertical caving. |
WHAT IS TAG? TAG simply stands for the geographical caving area defined by the state boundaries of Tennessee Alabama and Georgia. The geologic history within a large portion of this area centered around the tri-state boundary has created a complex terrain of exposed limestone bedrock that has produced over 14,000 known caves. TAG has the greatest concentration of caves in the entire United States. |
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WHAT ARE TAG CAVES KNOWN FOR? In the USA, TAG is known for it's sporting wet vertical caves and a large number of pits over 100 feet deep that cavers from all over the U.S. and the world come to explore. The deepest pit in TAG is the 586 foot deep pit in Ellisons Cave. There are many fun and sporting horizontal caves also. TAG also has its share of deep wet multi-drops that are long tight gnarly grim caves we call "Horror Holes." The hike to many of these caves in the summer requires a muti-mile long ridgewalk (bushwhack) across the rugged edges of the Cumberland Plateau that we call a "Death March." The plateau edges are often covered in tree tops from aggresive logging and become overgrown into a jungle of briars, vines, and thick brush. Combine this with high humidity and sweltering temperatures of the Deep South, just getting to some caves can be a major challenge. Finding TAG cave entrances can be an even greater challenge in that you are often looking for a body sized hole within a square mile of a thousand other small dead-end body sized karst features known as "Nerd Holes." |
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