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| Mar 02, 2003 YOUNG GULLY CAVE: Field notes: I. C. CONOLLEY Cavers: R. S. Stewart, I. C. Conolley, M. Taylor Sunday, March 2, 2003. It’s Sunday and we are on the road to Maroon Town .. that fateful Deeside/Maroon Town Road. Stef greets the road in reminder of the last difficult trip we had on it in November on our way to Quickstep. But it’s not Quickstep this time. We are hunting for Tony to take us to new, unresearched caves. We are nearing his house. There’s a man working in his field. Stef stops and heads out to ask him for Tony. No, Tony is not in the area. We can check with Zion not far from here. Okay so it’s Zion. We see the house. It’s in a valley. Zion says come. We file out of the car and make our way down to the canary yellow pitchpine house. We now meet Zion and Clive. Clive will have the job of taking us to a cave, but not today. He’ll take us to two tomorrow. We move into Maroon Town. At McBean’s Bar, Stef makes contact with a go-between who finds Lizard to take us to John Crow Cliff Cave. Yes, it’s true Stef , you always say it, to get to the caves you walk through a pasture filled with grass lice and cow ticks. So we go through the pasture. Happily, not much of the ticks this time. Water runs from the pasture into the cave when it rains. The cave has a fairly huge entrance. Maybe 30 feet across. It is a breakdown chamber, with boulders rising high forcing one to climb up and over. So that’s that. Next! We go to Roach Cave. |
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