Hollywood and Vine
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I have an idea, lets go explore some mud caves with a broken foot!
One of the dozens and dozens of caves we picked to go in first
This turned out to be long and big
Looking down one of the skylights at Todd
Ocean bottom/Desert waste land of mud and slot canyonds outside.
Todd and I got out of the skylight
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Sarlack pit
Todd coming back down from the sky light
Almost through to the other end of this cave
Matt going back in to the skylight
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Natural bridge
Todd and I went in to another cave much further up the main wash.
This one was much more narrow and less visited.
We had to crawl through a few spots
Nice butt!
Toady coming back out.
Mattii squeeze
Bubbles likes playing in the dirt. She got past the part of the canyon where the cars couldn't continue without even going in to 4wd
Main vertical shaft in Plunge Pool Cave
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How bad the air looks with a flash
Plunge Pool Cave's hidden side branch
It is quite a squeeze getting through this.
If I wasn't so damn skinny, I doubt I'd have gotten to the end.
5 u bends like this. Not for the clostraphobic
The last cave Todd and I did just east of Plunge Pool cave was very narrow but very tall. Todd climbed up in to an overpass branch.
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About 20 minutes in, the cave starts to ascend. Someone put a rope in this steep part.
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Past the rope it starts to get skinny and more diffcult to progress.
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I want to come back here at the beginging of a day rather the end and bring a dust mask and long pants.
Long vertical shaft near the beginning of Start Canyon
Neat looking mud falls in this 100' shaft
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Mud falls outside the shaft
Like a sceen out of Star Ship Troopers or Gatica
Covered in dust, making curry dinner back at Aqua Caliente Hot Springs
I screwed up. I left my SLR on Tungsten white balance so these were all blue and over exposed. I corrected them a bit.
Todd doesn't drive in to go camping. He is too good for that. =)
Run up
Roll out
