Horizontal Trip: Swirl Canyon Sunday, June 14

John Law and I are leading a trip to Swirl Canyon on Sunday, June 14. We will leave from the Shoney’s at Bell Road and I-24 at 8:30 A.M. Come earlier if you want to eat. (John Law will be the key master. haha!)

Swirl Canyon is a horizontal cave. We usually like to go to the back of the cave which involves sloshing through ankle deep water, crawling, squeezing, and a little climbing. You will need a minimum of a helmet and 3 sources of light to go on the trip. Please bring a change of clothes for after the cave. To prevent the spread of White Nose Syndrome, we ask that participants wear only new or decontaminated gear and clothing.

For the latest on decontamination practices and preventing the spread of white nose syndrome:
http://www.fws.gov/northeast/whitenose/FINALContainmentandDecontaminationProceduresforCaversJune2009.pdf

Swirl Canyon is a SCCi cave preserve. Please help the SCCi continue to protect valuable caves:
http://www.scci.org/Preserves/swirl/swirl.html

If you are interested in going on the trip, you can contact me at editor [at] sera2009 [dot] org

Thanks,

James Wood