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| Waterfall and Rimstone near the first sump | Bite sized formations all over the ceiling in the same area | Ladder to the bypass for the first sump... only Ben and Corey got to the top while the rest of us watched. | Chess Room | |
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| Chess Room | The boys on a natural bridge in the Omega Loop | The view down from the bridge | Gypsum crystals and crust. It covered an awful lot of walls and breakdown in the cave. | More gypsum |
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| Gypsum crust pushed away from the rock by new crystals | Close-up of the pushers | White haystack and other formations somewhere in Chris's Trunk | The same by Dave's carbide light | Straws |
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| Same straws with a camera flash instead | Note the faint outline of a water drop at the bottom of this one, for a little size perspective. | Calcite formations, somewhere near the Root Canal (I think) | ||
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| Just a tiny piece of the Root Canal | Close-up of the left-hand wall in the Root Canal | Likewise | Right-hand wall of the Root Canal | Doesn't look like much, but check out all the color changes in the rock |
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| Dave in the root canal... caves are dark | More gypsum | Formation in the Christmas Tree Room | The same | More in the CTRoom |
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| you guessed it... | Aragonite and sparkles | Close-up of the same | Medusa | Yet another big helectite in the CTRoom (plus, you can see the tree) |
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| The Christmas Tree | Close-ups of crystals | Ceiling by the Christmas Tree | It's another helectite! | |
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| More from the ceiling | Crinoid and Brachiopod fossils covered in gypsum | A "U" shaped helectite | The Mosquito | And that night it rained... Ben checking out flooding at the house |
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| Note the water coming in about 7 rungs down from the entrance | ||||