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Life and death in the “bone pit”.
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Here in a cave that we visited last weekend Greg examines a root - some distance beneath the earth.
Beneath the surface mythology and spirituality feel closer - is it in any way surprising that ritual and ceremony were so closely tied to caves by early [...]
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Probably had a hammer taken to them.
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These shattered stumps of stalactites are a good reason why the caves should remain anonymous in their location. Certain, easily accessible areas are quite badly vandalized but deeper where crawling and exploration beyond the daylight is required the environment is still pristine. Looking under a [...]
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Suspected buried passages beneath where we were crawling.
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We suspected that the tunnels within which we were crawling - though broken into several smaller caves - might actually be an interconnected warren of passages simply blocked by thousands of years of porcupine feces.
In many places the tunnels appear to have a lower [...]
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Does anyone know what kind of vertebrae this is?
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Shortly after descending the bone pit Greg found two beaver skulls in a corner and as I was walking I kicked something that made an oddly porcelean sound - very unlike the sound of the rock shards beneath my feet.
In examining the cave [...]
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Falling would have unpleasant consequences.
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With suitable caution Valerie inches down the pit - not so deep but far more slippery than you might imagine. The scalloped roof indicates the former presence of running water and by the tunnel shape I would suggest at one time a pheratic passage - beneath the [...]
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We peer within contemplating a slippery descent.
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Following along the top of the ridge we soon located this elliptically shaped pit, “A bit like the “solution shaft at Olmstead” Valerie commented. Corneilie, Marc and Valerie peer down within - Mark suggesting to his fiance - Corneilie - “Be careful”. Greg warned of [...]
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Seeping tunnels - dank and mouldy - forgotten in their forested obscurity.
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The dolostone surface of this area was ground smooth by an enormous sheet of ice - a lobe that stretched down in a south westerly direction. The melting front retreated past this point around 12000 years ago.
The lake beside whose shores we [...]
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Reaching the shore of this nameless - somewhat desolate looking patch of water we skirted around its edges until we found the caves. To any caver the rock - a shattered dolostone should suggest some promise - though the fractured nature of the material might also suggest a material that is [...]
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A painful, weary start to a day of fantastic discovery.
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Corneilie and Marc appear here - part of our 5 person team that investigated a little known caving location today. Having permission from the authorities that control the area we had petitioned for a permit to explore and in so doing agreed, [...]
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Looking for caves near Lake Erie
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This is Jeff C. - a photo taken recently while we were exploring an area south of Hamilton - looking for caves. Jeff had alerted us to a discovery that he had made and we were especially excited as it was a tunnel in Devonian age [...]
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