Underground Travel in Ontario

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DSCF0050, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As I am sure you might imagine, winter caving can be a little chilly. Here I followed an open channel in the ice into an underground tunnel system. I call this [...]

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Pilgrim’s Crawl

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IMG_2542, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Like you I am also wondering where this tunnel goes. I can tell you that the stream surfaces near the edge of the Crowe River in Northern Ontario. [...]

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Underfalls

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IMG_2981, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
There is a cool, wet breeze in front of the falls and I scrambled to the cascade’s edge over slippery rocks. It is possible to work your way [...]

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Wow

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IMG_2977, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Naturally, I was pretty excited by this beautiful feature and had to get a closer look.

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Waterfall

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IMG_2968, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is what we found when we followed the river down the valley. In Mark Harris’s book “Waterfalls of Ontario he says that it is “arguably the best [...]

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Visitors From Across The Border

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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is Tom (helmet) and Scott ensminger (ball cap), they are members of the Niagara Frontier Grotto and are quite active in the Niagara area caving scene. Scott is a prolific writer and has published several books, one of which I posess, “The Caves of [...]

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Decew Limestone

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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is an example of the possible cave forming rock in the area, “The Decew Limestone”. Solution caves are most likely to form in limestone and that is what I am especially interested in. you can see by the edge of this strata that some [...]

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Construction

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IMG_2935, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is what “we made”. Looking down the open joint I am seeing a water filled passage that would be accessible to a person that is willing to get wet and [...]

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Digging Adventure

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IMG_2937, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I was relieved to find that the cobbles had loosened up. On my last visit everything was frozen solid. I used a loose rock to hammer at the [...]

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Blocked Tunnel

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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here is the tunnel that Doug and I had found a few weeks prior. Scott Tom and I had made somewhat of an attempt to clear it yesterday morning. I suppose it does not look all that impressive to someone who is not into that [...]

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