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Archive for December, 2008

Anybody know about caving clipart?

Thoughts of tunnels deeper in.
You might be interested to compare this picture to the one I have included three or four posts earlier of the Cuevas de Bellamar – Cuba. Aside from the size difference you might also notice the difference in tunnel crossection. Any idea why? Are there any cavers [...]

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If you want to cave in Canada – you gotta like the cold!

Caving in the winter
Speaking of caving possibilities – there is plenty of virgin passage beneath this low escarpment – tunnels that I have entered but never really pursued. Come to think of it, this might be our easy access to the bigger suspected [...]

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Ontario in the Winter – Canadian caving trips

 
Got to watch for polar bears and sasquatch – I heard a caver just got eaten.
Here I am in one of my favorite Ontario caving spots looking for more tunnels. Winter is often a good time to look for caves as you can see the breathing holes and [...]

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Abandoned mine in Quebec – Bristol Mine

P1020339, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Had an interesting time last weekend. I went to see the old abandoned Bristol Mine along the banks of the Ottawa River. The “town” of bristol mines still exists and the old mine property is still obvious for its enormous heaps tailings.
Bristol Mines had been [...]

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Lake of the Dahlias somewhere beyond

P1010079, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here it is – over the hump. I pressed through this low slot and on to the passage beyond – an elliptical tunnel that wound off into gloom. Its hard to imagine but somewhere further on the helictites become so dense and interwoven that it is [...]

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Cuevas de Bellamar

P1010076, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Shortly after leaving the tourist section of the Cuevas de Bellamar there was this reddish hump in front – it was a rippled flowstone ramp, over which I wriggled and there in front was …..

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