Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, adventure in Ontario, books, cave conservation, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, history, industrial archeology, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged caving, Caving in Ontario, claustrophobia, exploration, karst, tunnels, underground on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Where does the tunnel go from here? Is there airspace or do the passages descend beneath the water table?
Next visit we will remove the wheel and try back-float the passage in a wet suit.
A short distance through the mud left me up against this wheel – a good place for mud bogging if you can [...]
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Going deeper!
Jeff’s picture
Not being quite high enough to crawl on all fours I had to belly inch my way down this slope throgh numerous jagged glass obstacles that struck up through the rock. Down below the passage gets a little higher and in one spot there is a pretty sizeable fossilized sponge with a scallop [...]
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Bed of Glass Cave – a newly discovered Ontario cave
Jeff C.’s picture
So here is where you slip down the incline from beneath all the tangled wire deeper into the cave. Right next to my helmet there is an old milk churn and in sliding over it I bruised my ribs quite badly and I’m still feeling [...]
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A newly discovered Ontario cave
Initial exploration of “Bed of Glass Cave”
This is Jeff, he discovered Bed of Glass Cave” last weekend.
Having dropped down through the hole that had been broken through the coils of rusting wire we found ourself in a twilight world of subdued light, old car parts and broken bottles. Up above the [...]
Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Education, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, News, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, adventure in Ontario, backpacking, bizzare, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged cave digging, caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, Finding Caves, Toronto Caving Group on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toronto Caving Group
Another new Cave near Lake Erie
A question that is commonly asked by people who visit this site is, How do I become a caver? or, How do I start caving in Ontario?
Well, aside from the obvious (start caving on your own) Join a caving club.
I had been caving for many years as an [...]
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Pool in Dead Mouse Cave
IMG_7892, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I suppose it would not be unreasonable to assume that I have managed to fit in a significant amount of study since the last post went up, but unfortunatly I was again distracted and ended up visiting my good Friend Jeff (SNAFU).
Jeff M. is a techie, I [...]
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A disapponting conclusion – I’m to fat to go much further
IMG_7898, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Just a quick post as promised – a conclusion to the newly discovered cave – “Dead Mouse”. In one sense, you did not miss out to much here Greg. The cave soon changed to something less explorable, but it was the [...]
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