Caving in Ontario – (the difference between caving and spelunking), originally uploaded by Mic2006. This is an extract from my book (a screen shot of part of a page), that is finished as of now – with about a half hour before the new year. It should be available for purchase from Lulu or the [...]
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Caving in Ontario – (the difference between caving and spelunking), Geology of Ontario, Geography of Ontario
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, books, Buy The Book, cave conservation, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, diving in ontario, Education, environment, Eramosa Karst, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, health and safety, Interesting, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, niagara escarpment, ontario, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sinkholes in Ontario, sports, strange places, Toronto Cave Group, underground Ontario, tagged caves in Canada, caving, Caving in Ontario, geography of Ontario, geology of Ontario, karst, underground on January 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Beaver Valley – Fall leaves in Ontario
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Buy The Book, cave conservation, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, Education, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, hiking, Interesting, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, niagara escarpment, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, tagged Beaver Valley, cave hunting, caves in Ontario, Caving in Ontario, fall colors, geography, geology, geology of Ontario, karst, looking for caves, Niagara escarpment, ontario on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Beaver Valley, originally uploaded by Mic2006. I was out scouting for a possible cave dig location today. Caving in Ontario can sometimes involve a little digging. Beaver Valley has a few promising possibilities. Investigations from a past trip revealed the likelihood of a bedding plane tunnel, there was no remarkable amount of solution taking place. [...]
likely resurgence of Bed of Glass Cave – Ontario
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, bizzare, Buy The Book, Canada, cave conservation, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, environment, Eramosa Karst, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, industrial archeology, Interesting, my life, nature, Nature/Outdoors, niagara escarpment, ontario, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sinkholes in Ontario, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, tagged Bed of Glass Cave, caves in Ontario, caves near Lake Erie, Caving in Ontario, geology of Ontario on August 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
likely resurgence of Bed of Glass Cave – Ontario, originally uploaded by Mic2006. This is kind of a neat little karst area where we found a number of small caves in close proximity to each other. The picture above shows the resurgence beneath this dead tree of the sink several hundred feet away and also [...]
Wasteland Waterway Cave – this is what we crawled through
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, bizzare, cave conservation, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, crazy things, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, Interesting, Life, My Book, my life, ontario, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, Toronto Cave Group, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged cave exploration, caves in Canada, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, geography of Ontario, geology of Ontario, wasteland waterway on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
IMGP0810, originally uploaded by Mic2006. This is JC as he and I wiggled our way on deeper into this unexplored Ontario cave system. We have a mapping planned. Some time soon we should be able to provide more definite dimensions. We finished the day’s exploration with (For me) a difficult crawl from our excavation hole. [...]
New Ontario Cave gets Curioser and Curioser – Wasteland Waterway
Posted in cave digging, cave diving in ontario, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, diving in ontario, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, Interesting, Life, My Book, my life, Nature/Outdoors, niagara escarpment, ontario, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sinkholes in Ontario, sports, strange places, Toronto Cave Group, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, waterfalls of Ontario, tagged Caves, caves of ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, geography of Ontario, geology of Ontario, karst in Ontario on April 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Though we were disappointed by the flooded entrance to Wasteland Waterway we decided to check a nearby sink and in hearing noise JC and I burrowed away and opened a karst window in the bottom of what looked like a meteor crater – the roar from within was encouraging. The picture above shows what my [...]
Rockwatching is Back in Print – Book on Ontario Caves
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, backpacking, books, Buy The Book, Canada, cave conservation, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Cuba, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, climbing, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, culture, cultures, diving, diving in ontario, Education, environment, Eramosa Karst, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, hiking, history, Interesting, Life, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, News, niagara escarpment, ontario, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, Toronto Cave Group, tunnels, Uncategorized, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, tagged cave exploration, Caves, caving, Caving in Ontario, geography of Ontario, geology of Ontario, karst, Rockwatching on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Intersection of entry tunnel and the first passage – Broken Boat, originally uploaded by Mic2006. This picture was taken on a recent exploration that JC and I did in an area that has long been suspected of being “cave rich”. In Ongley’s long forgotten cave manuscript he relates the impression at the time [...]
Genesis of a Secret Niagara Escarpment Cave
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, bizzare, books, Buy The Book, Canada, cave conservation, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, Education, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, hiking, history, Interesting, Life, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, niagara escarpment, ontario, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, people, Photography, photos, picture of, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, Toronto Cave Group, tunnels, Uncategorized, underground, underground Ontario, tagged Caves, caving, Caving in Ontario, geography of Ontario, geology of Ontario, Niagara escarpment, Ontario caves on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
JC in a crevice – cave – Niagara Escarpment The big passage in Broken Rowboat Cave ends in a jumble of rock leading downward at one end and a sediment blockage at the other end. The big passage is met about midway along by a crawl tube from the outside and another tube leads off [...]
Pool at the End of Dead Mouse
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, backpacking, bizzare, books, Buy The Book, Canada, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, Education, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, history, Interesting, Life, My Book, my life, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, Toronto Cave Group, Travel, tunnels, underground, wierd, tagged Caves, caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, geography, geology of Ontario, Ontario geography, rock in ontario on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Pushing Dead Mouse – A new Ontario caving area south of Hamilton
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, articles, backpacking, bizzare, books, Buy The Book, Canada, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, crazy things, Education, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, history, Interesting, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, Toronto Cave Group, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged Caves, caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, Caving south of Hamilton, exploration, exploring, exploring in Ontario, geology of Ontario, hamilton, Onondaga Escarpment, Ontario caving, rocks in Ontario, spelunking on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Scallops in the Tunnel
Posted in adventure in Ontario, books, Buy The Book, Canada, cave digging, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, Education, Eramosa Karst, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, history, Interesting, Life, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, Toronto Cave Group, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged caving, Caving in Canada, Caving in Ontario, Discovery in Ontario, Exploration in Ontario, geography of Ontario, geology of Ontario on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the scalloping An Ontario cave near Lake Erie Notice the scalloping – wear features shaped like spoon scoops, they are indicative of the water speed and direction of flow. The roof above is grey and hard and worn smooth – no sign of the ceiling joint that governs passage direction in many Ontario [...]







