Lucas, Trevor, Trace and I drove up to the Ophir Cave for for a little fungi roundup! This is the 3rd cave Lucas has been into hunting and collecting fungus. This little cave has two rappels (one ~50ft freehanging) and is full value.
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| This one isnt really a secret. |
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| Literally looks like the 'mouth' of the cave. |
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| Cave formations are so out-of-this-world that I feel like I'm on an alien planet somewhere! |
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| The second rappel. |
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| Down goes Trace. Trace and Trevor had never needed to ascend a fixed rope before; lets just say Im really really glad I didnt have to learn in a pitch black cave with a super old bolt anchor. |
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| Yup, thats an old mounted deer head! I guess the story goes that a mutual friend of Lucas' and my parents, Trent Syness, hauled this thing down about the time we were born, if not earlier. I have absolutely no idea how the heck they managed to get that thing down there! There were some extremely claustrophobic sections to get to the bottom/main chamber. Most of the hair probably was scraped off on the descent but whatever was left has since fallen off. Creepy? |
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| It made for some great fungi collection though! |
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| This passageway probably used to 'go' but it has filled up with mud and we didnt feel like belly crawling into a dead end. This IS the true bottom. |
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| This beautiful formation had an opening that you could squirm through into a cool room. |
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| Those are little bones. Its either a really old dead bat or an owl pellet. Seriously, we cant figure out what it is. |
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| A WNS FREE(!!!!!!!) bat! |
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