We had some time to kill before meeting Aaron so I took Tom to Langdon’s Cave. We parked and followed the trail to the cave entrance. As we descended the entrance slope I told Tom that Aaron said someone had dumped a dead body in the breakdown on the left awhile ago. We continued back into the cave trying not to get too muddy. I’d forgotten how slimy Langdon’s is. We toured to the back of the walking section of the cave and headed back out. I carried both of my dry boxes with me the whole time but didn’t see anything I wanted to take a picture of until we got back to the entrance. I had Tom pose on the slope below and to the right of the entrance and I placed two strobes to his right and left and held a strobe in my hand. It ended up being a pretty well lit picture.
After Langdon’s we retreated to the car, and got our stuff together to visit Mauck’s Cave. We followed the road all the way back and then started off trail when we got within 500 feet of the cave. We got to where the GPS said the cave should be and of course it wasn’t there. It seems that many GPS points in Harrison Crawford are often off by 200 feet. Tom said that he spotted a trail and I knew to follow it since it seems that Mauck’s is a rather heavily traveled cave. The trail led directly to the cave entrance. After a couple pictures we climbed down into the cave. We started along in walking passage about 12’ wide. The right side of the passage was composed of a large flowstone mass. We stooped around to the left and continued ahead in walking passage. The passage had a lot of muddy formations. I didn’t find the cave particularly impressive. The walking passage ended so I looked at the map. We backtracked and climbed up to a crawl and belly crawl among formations. It was often 1.5 – 2 feet high. Eventually, we crawled down into larger passage again. This section also had many dirty formations. After a little walking we found some more crawling passage and I soon saw roots and breakdown ahead. We’d reached the end.
There was a small hole in the floor that went into passage below. I backtracked in the crawlway and found a hole large enough to enter and was soon looking at the small hole from the other side. The passage got low, wet, and muddy ahead of me so I came back out and we routed. I’d once again carried my dry box all the way to the back and not seen anything that I wanted a photo of, just lots of muddy formations. Overall, the cave was a bit of a hog wallow. I took a profile shot near the entrance and another shot looking out the entrance and we exited the cave and hiked back to the car. To Robinson Ladder Cave
Langdon's
Tom stands above the entrance to Langdon's Cave.
This was the only section I wanted to take a picture of.
Mauck's
Tom poses above the entrance to Mauck's Cave.
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Mauck's
Tom poses above the climb down entrance just before he slipped into the cave.
Tom poses in the entrance room to Maucks.
Mauck's
A profile near the entrance of Mauck's Cave. I saw nothing else picture worthy in the cave.
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Green's Bluff
Tom holds himself above the entrance to Mauck's Cave.
Tom holds himself above the entrance to Mauck's Cave.
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