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June 11, 2004 ANANCY HOLE Position: WGS84 - 18 17' 14.4" N, 77 38' 00.5" W Field notes: D. K. ROGGY Cavers: R. S. Stewart, M. Taylor, D. K. Roggy Time in: 10:00 EST, Time out: 18:30 EST THREAT VULNERABILITY: Low A sinkhole in the cockpit country. The hole was near a clearing and had barbed wire around it; evidently it was once near active agriculture. 
It took a couple of hours for us to reach this place from the entrance to the Troy-Windsor trail due to confusion over losing the trail. The trail is easy to follow in the woods, but when you hit a clearing you might find a wall of fern in your way, leaving no evidence of a trail. Although the trail had been bush whacked some 2-3 months ago the ferns showed no sign of a trail.
We spent some time off trail, trying to use GPS to find another cave that had been located during the March session. Off the trail we found more evidence of humanity; a large steel can, perhaps used to hold fuel and the stump of a large tree, cut down probably decades ago. The stump was about 2m across.Stefan went down into the sinkhole while Delroy burned smudge fires to keep the mosquitos at bay and I took pics of Stef descending into and ascending out of the pit. |
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