Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Hamilton, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, News, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, books, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, culture, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, mystery, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, people, photos, picture of, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on January 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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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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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We observe from a distance a fantasy land of stalactites, sodastraws and columns.
IMG_6957, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Beneath these stone draperies a tunnel leads from the bottom of the bone pit off into the “No Go Zone”, an area of incredible and delicate formations - the like of which are unknown to exist elsewhere in Ontario. [...]
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From Pre-historic times to present the urine of a thousand generations of bears has soaked the tunnel floors - or so it seemed.
IMG_7008, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Hidden beneath a cedar bush this tunnel entrance leads to some sizeable - stoop walking tunnel.
The passage is been broken open at this point and it runs on behind [...]
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