Jewel Cave gets a little longer

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Jewel Cave gets a little longer

Postby Extremeophile » Mar 20, 2011 10:17 pm

A trip to the Ant Farm this weekend netted ~1,640 feet of survey. The trip was led by Dan Austin and included Rene Ohms, Kelly Mathis and myself. Several leads left during the last two trips to the area (in February, 2011 and August, 2010) were surveyed. Most was walking sized with one passage over 60' high and 20' wide. A good looking lead was left in this area (20' diameter passage), but will require a couple bolts to access. Many of the surveyed passages are on the boundary of the known cave with good airflow, but all passages heading E and NE became too tight or filled. Jewel Cave is now >153.5 miles in length.

The trip out was very fast at ~4 hours, and the return trip was ~5 hours. Total time underground was 17 hours.

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Gympsum needle nest along short-cut to the Ant Farm

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Gympsum flowers

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Frostwork coated manganese

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Kelly Mathis in large room

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Dan and Kelly in large terminal room with lots of rims/vents

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Rene admires hole in wall
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Re: Jewel Cave gets a little longer

Postby JR-Orion » Mar 21, 2011 11:04 am

Very nice!

The walls in the fifth picture look rather alien.
Letting the days go by / water flowing underground
Into the blue again / in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones / there is water underground.
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