bigalpha wrote:Um, I may be able to find out the # of caves on Ft. C -- unless someone knows offhand? charles?
Actually,I only know of a handfull of caves there.
I know of some leads,BUT,they are in an area that contains a lot of ammo bunkers dug into the hillsides. I do not want to have to explain myself to the MP's and the Provost Marshall!
They will not buy the "looking for Bin Laden" story...
This same area has a huge spring that washes out the road periodically.
There are some very active sinkholes that are almost irresistable.
Rain that falls on my office goes 200 yards into a sinkhole. It then resurges at a spring 7 miles away.
I did participate in a rescue,many years ago,of a coon dog that chased a (what else..)racoon into a cave.
Somehow,the dog made it into a dome at the end of a LOW stream crawl,and was so disoriented,he would not come out.
This crawl had a stone floor and ceiling. I could not fit,no matter how hard I tried to force my body.
Eventually,the owner scrounged a long pole with a noose,and,managed to lassoo the poor critter.
There were several short caves in the low bluff above the first one.
I believe the racoon went up the dome,through a small hole(dog filter?),and out another entrance.
Slide. Slide on the ice...