Skip to main content

Jennifer Otto

Jennifer Otto began caving in 1993 and immediately took to cave discovery. "She took the 'you should check this out' to extreme and found the smallest tightest lead to see where it would go (NSS News 2000)." It wasn't long after this that she became a cave diver and later, active in the Florida Speleological Society doing cave cleanups, leading novice trips, and cultivating landowner relationships. In 1993 she participated in the Jennings Cave cleanup in Marion County, Florida so that the bat colony, driven out by pollution and vandals during the 1970’s, might return. She also contributed to caver art. One of the images she created is shown below. Stay tuned for more later on today. Nice work Jennifer Otto. Thank you for being an extraordinary woman caver!

SOURCES:
http://www.floridacaving.com/pages/history/speleologist/jennings_cleanup.htm

The Florida Speleologist Vol. 34, Number 1
Winter 1997

NSS News, February 2000

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

QUOTE: Marie M. Daly

"Courage is like — it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging." Marie M. Daly (1921–2003), Biochemist & the first African American woman in the US to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. #ScienceWomen #WLeadership #ewls
2 comments
Read more

800 Facebook Likes!

Yippee! EWLS fans are awesome! Thank you all so much for sharing and liking our FB page. Since last February when we announced 700 likes, we have gained a blog and our annual event is ramping up for some major festivities. Please check out our Extraordinary Women Cavers (EWC's) who will be featured in this year's publication and sign up so that you can get in on these limited caving trips to gated and protected caves in the Magic Valley area of Idaho! Have a great day everyone and thank you for supporting women cavers! LINKS Webpage: www.ewls.org EWC's: www.ewls.org/past-editions.html Annual Event: www.ewls.org/all-grrs-cave-trip.html Annual Event FB page: www.facebook.com/events/127091664128055
18 comments
Read more

Sioux Legend of the Old Woman in the Cave

According to Sioux legend, as told by Chief Lost Feather, there is a secret and mysterious cave that is located on the West Mountain (near Hot Springs, Arkansas).  There's an old woman and a dog that have been living in this cave for many generations. The old woman never grows any older.  The dog never ages, either.  They both stay exactly the same, and they have since anybody can remember. The old woman spends her days weaving a rug.  She is using pine needles that she has collected in the nearby pine forest.  The old woman has been weaving now for many centuries, and yet the rug never gets any bigger. The dog watches his mistress weave through narrow slits in his eyes as he appears to just nap in the corner. Occasionally the old woman puts the rug down and leaves it while she goes to stir the pot of soup that she has cooking on a fire at the mouth of the cave.  The soup has probably been cooking for several centuries, as well.  The minute the old w...
Post a Comment
Read more