Chad said:
>Having never been in Lech, I only know from what I was told that Nevada was
>taken into Lech up to some point (I can't remember, possibly Boulder Falls?),
>but that was enough for her descriptions of Lech to be "just real enough" to
>make the book come alive. Nevada's description of Anna's trip into Lech was
>indeed, very real . . . up to a point, and only someone who has actually been
>in Lech would know where that point occurred.
I've also read Blind Descent and enjoyed it. In fact I have an
autographed copy. :-) The description of Lechuguilla is more or less accurate
up to the Rift, which is a ways beyond Boulder Falls. I don't remember whether
or not Barr actually got that far in the cave, but if not she had some good
coaching about the passages. Beyond that the cave is mostly fictitious,
especially the part about the well casing and grout, but still highly
believable. There are oil and gas wells only a mile or so from Lechuguilla, so
the possibility of a well intersecting the cave is very real.
Mark Minton
