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| On Saturday, Gary & Steve joined us. | We headed to the park and got ready. Only eight of us could clean so John and Nicole stayed back and toured the area. | After filling out paperwork, we followed our leader, Tom Bemis. |
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| Tom works in Cave Resources and coordinates trail/cave restoration projects here in Carlsbad Caverns. | Our area was just slightly out of site of the main trail (area 24) called ??? | You have to skirt a very clear cave lake. |
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| The problem here is red clay mud was used to cover the electric lines and it get's tracked everywhere! | This floor should be white and grey.. notice the red clay has been saturated into the area. | Our project 1 of 2 - eliminate traces of the red clay from the trail and formations in the area. |
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| No Anne... it's not that high... just on the floor and hands level. | Lil very quickly claims "The Rock" as her personal part of the project...Anne helps out... | A quote I heard, "This should give us lots of immediate satisfaction seeing the quick results!" |
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| Six hours later, Anne & Lil finished their rock and surrounding area! | Roy continued on an area previously worked on by another grotto, cleaning down to the trail... | then he joined steve and they worked on the dead end backward to the mushroom squeeze area (near Lil & Anne) |
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| NO STEVE! Don't brush with that!!! | What happens when you use a "Cave Toothbrush" for brushing rather than scrubbing rock & formations! | The tools of a cave restoration crew - water buckets, brushes, toothbrushes, water sprayers, and sponges to absorb the water. |
