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The Kentucky EPA told me that the Ashland Property (now under oversight/management by the Ky Div of Fish and Wildlife) has wells drilled on a grid pattern of 400ft on a side. Can you imagine the cost of capping all of those wells? And using the injection water method of forcing up the natural gas and then letting the brine water run off on to the ground, can you imagine the amount of ground water contamination, including the heavy metal content? Would super fund site be too strong a term to use? And who is trying to change to direction of the use of the natural resources down in the Big Sinking? The RRGCC. I think we can all be proud, especially the BOD.

The oil wells are generally about 1,200 feet deep but that varies according to whether they are drilled down in the hollow or on top of the ridge. Paul I'm suprised that a person of your technical acumen would use such primitive means of inquiry. What you should have done is whipped out your GPS and determined your coordinates. Then you could have used your laptop to access the Kentucky Geologic Survey Oil & Gas Records database http://kgsweb.uky.edu/DataSearching/OilGas/OGSearch.asp and conducted an advanced radius search to see what technical information was available on the well. (I mean you do always carry a GPS unit & laptop around with you while tromping through the rhodos don't you?)

Seriously, please stay away from any oil wells or equipment on the PMRP whether active or abandoned. If you find a situation that you think might present a hazard, please contact the PMRP Property Manager, Mark Jackson.

you mean something like this:

http://kgsweb.uky.edu/oilgasimages/o_g/ ... &zoom=page
*require's internet explorer and a plug-in

or this that i sent in an email a couple weeks ago:


or this (sorry if there are any carto errors.. i just threw it together):
http://www.thismosaic.com/tiles/baldrockfork_oil.pdf

there's little to know info on this well.. at least not public data. just wanted people to know to keep their eye out and avoid situations like that..

anway, this thread is about roctrip and i'm contributing to its derailing.. so

roctrip is awesome!

If it's a hole one can't see how is one supposed to avoid it before it is too late? I am assuming Paul wasn't just running blindly through the woods. If people find open holes/pits/dangers, where is Mark Jackson's contact info?

Saxman wrote:I am assuming Paul wasn't just running blindly through the woods.

ha.. actually i pretty much was. i was trying to swat the spiders out of the way

and check out http://rrgcc.org it's in "about us" > "bod"

and you can also find out about roctrip there, too

You mean you didn't rap in?

no, i went to roctrip instead

sorry, 400 yds.

I'm over in Kalymnos right now, they had he roctrip here a year or so ago, i think, and in the last 3 days have run into 4-5 parties of climbers from England, Austria, Germany and Belgium who said they were thinking bout coming over.

i told them it was all slab climbing and the weather sucks in october, made derogatory remarks about them and their questions, then gave them real answers. i figured it would warm them up for rrc.com.

in all seriousness, i've met a lot of people over here who are psyched about the red and the roctrip, glad i choose to run away last term not next

It's going to be great to see even more climbers coming from all over the world this fall. I finally got around to watching some of the Kalymnos video from the link in Bentley's original post. Looked like everyone was psyched on the event & the climbing. Like in the Kalymnos video I think we can expect to see people catching some big air.