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IMG_7272, originally uploaded by Mic2006.

So, you think you are smart eh? any idea what this guy is holding here. I bought it in a local mall for $20 a couple of years ago. Hint - [...]

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Hey there other cavers in Ontario

IMG_5031, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
It’s odd how you feel this kinship for other cavers and its really exciting when you see one. My wife and I went down to IKEA in Hamilton today to get some bookshelves for all the books my dad just gave me. We took a different [...]

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Ontario cave with a scary past.

IMG_4403, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
The picture is a little blurry but I thought that I would post it today in memory of a time not so long ago when I was able to go outside without my nose almost freezing solid.
This is Donald of the SQS - a Quebec caving [...]

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Under the waterfall at night

IMG_6094, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is quite interesting - it shows the junction of the Whirlpool Sandstone and the Queenstone shale layer. My good friend SNAFU and I had visited this place on a cold winter night. As we approached falls the noise was totally deafening and the spray and wind [...]

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IMG_7167, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Looking downstream there is quite a rush of water heading off in that direction and on the ground above there are many sinkholes and places where large chunks of earth have collaped in over the winter. I suppose the system is being fed from innumerable small crevices on the surface.

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IMG_7175, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
In consideration of the stream and the high water conditions I think an exploration of this particular system is better left until it is both warmer and dryer. This is the view looking upstream. In the opposite direction the water is just roaring off down a tunnel that becomes quite tight. [...]

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IMG_7166, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I suppose I should have known better, after some heavy snow and now warmer temperatures the caves in this particular area were all quite flooded. There was one in particular that I wanted to check out. Greg had initially found and explored it. We wandered through the mist and slush, using [...]

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IMG_7148, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Well, Ive been under a little pressure as of late to post more about rock related subjects in Ontario.
Admittedly Ive been in a slump as of late. I hurt my back at work and could barely walk for months. Anyway I used my time to begin a new novel; “The Undiscovered [...]

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Caving in Ontario - Ontario cave

old pics 165, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Another picture of Dewdneys cave taken some time ago - as in at least 15 years ago when my son was young - he is holding a portable fluorescent light in front of him and I had taken the picture with slow exposure using [...]

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Dirty woman!

IMG_6954, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
From left to right - Marc (SQS), Greg (TCG) and Corneilie (SQS) all crouched around an area of flowstone on the floor. This is in the cave that we visited last weekend - a place of great natural beauty along the northern reaches of Ontario’s dolostone rim. Dolostone is not [...]

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