Surveyors Descend Into Darkness For Thrill and Discovery

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Surveyors Descend Into Darkness For Thrill and Discovery

Postby Wayne Harrison » Sep 1, 2007 8:14 pm

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Speleological Surveyors Descend Into Unmapped Darkness For Thrill and Discovery and to Protect a Hidden Realm


By Delphine Schrank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 31, 2007; Page B01

Summer's almost over. For many, the start of school relegates it to the weekends.

But weekends are still good for exploring. This year's Metro summer series goes underground.

In a small depression where a cattle pasture meets a line of trees in Rockingham County, a narrow slit -- dark as pitch -- lies concealed by tangled roots, mossy rocks and poison ivy. For visitors one recent Saturday, the flashlights of their hard hats blinking like third eyes, it beckoned with the promise of another world.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083002074.html?nav=rss_metro/md">via Washington Post</a>
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