Today, my friends and I (Lance) took advantage of some sunny weather and decided to snowshoe to the entrance of a cave and explore it. We originally hoped to be able to somehow get up above Tony Grove, but something about the nine mile hike in from the highway (and the nine mile hike back) deterred us and so we decided to go to a cave located in the sinks area of the canyon. We rappelled about twenty feet into the entrance of the cave, and then spent the next hour or so, exploring the cave. We found about a hundred and fifty feet of tight cave and saw lots of cool cave features. As soon as I get the pictures from my friend's camera, I'll post more pictures (Maybe some of me this time) We had good fun. The snow structures in these photos are caused by snow that falls through the holes in the cieling. The cave structure picture features a large (4") ribbon, a few stalagtites, a stalagmite and what may be precursors to some hollow soda straws.
7 comments:
You're brave Lance, I wouldn't never do that!
Holy cow, Lance. I'm claustrophobic just looking at those pictures! I'm glad you had a good time.
totally wicked! can't wait to see you cats in...five and half days...woot woot!!
wow, way cool lance!
Lance, go read Touching the Void before you go ice-climbing again.
Funny you should recommend that piece. I actually watched the full length documentary at the Logan arts cinema theater a few years ago. I thought it was a pretty interesting story.
Hey! I have been using a Canon EOS 20D for the last three years. I love it but I've worn it into the ground! It's a great camera!
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