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| Well...we had a surprise on the parking area... looks like they had to re-drill into the well! | Pretty impressive piece of equipment | Gives you an ideal of how cold it was...we are dressed for cold wet cave... |
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| ... and we're still hiding in our cars until all were ready!! | But the engineer guy (Dale A) had to have a go look n' see! | Then we headed out over the prairie! I think the lawn mower broke here! |
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| We split into two teams of four - Sue, Becky, Jon, and Dale went into this hole! | See y'all later! | Square Sink - Hard as heck to get out of so we'll just sorta slide into it! |
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| You heard of Catfish Noodling? Here John is Bat Noodling! (Actually he dropped his pencil into a hole and got it out!) | A Big Brown Bat... compare it to the next picture of a common cave myotis. We get excited when we can find a few of these! | A myotis velifer ...common cave bat. Not as silky hair as the big brown. |
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| That's where the big brown was hiding... definitely out of the way!! | Finally we got to White Mountain and the mats (though smaller than previous years) appeared. | Usually it is hard to see any rock around this area as it is very covered by the mats of bats |
