David Locklear said:
>ICS attendees would have some muddy fun at Prassel Ranch Cave.
>You have fun "salamandering" for hours only to turn around and repeat the same
>to get out of the cave.
As I remember it, there was often too little water to salamander in
Prassell Ranch Cave. Salamandering only works if there is enough water to
float your body above the mud, and the mud and water together are shallow
enough to reach through to the solid floor with your hands. That's a pretty
limited range that just happens to occur relatively frequently in Honey Creek.
I don't know how likely those conditions would be in general, but I suspect
it's not that common. There are plenty of places in Honey Creek where it
doesn't work. What I remember being especially insidious in Prassell Ranch
Cave is that there was often a false floor of flowstone under the mud that was
sometimes strong enough to support body weight, and sometimes not. One would
be crawling along through the mud and then suddenly fall through, doing a face
plant in the process.
>And this cave has had a going lead for 30 something years. Right ?
There is no open lead as far as I know, although I think there is a dig
at a low airspace or sump at the back. I haven't seen it though.
Mark Minton
