At 12:54 PM 1/22/2008, [email protected] wrote:
BMC = Big Mutha Caverns
BMC is the kind of cave that everybody should see but that no one should visit.
Part of it is just a big, ugly entrance room at the bottom of a nuisance entrance drop. But beyond a tight keyhole busted through some sorta normal arm-sized columns begins a world of a great variety of unusual and (unfortunately) delicate formation rooms that pretty much forego any usable aural description. They are dense and compact and just about everywhere. They must be seen to be believed. But, again unfortunately, the formations are so profuse that it is absolutely impossible to move through the rear portions of the cave without breaking something with every step or shuffle--without breaking many things no matter how carefully you try. You are essentially encapsulated within a fantastic geode that is pressing on you and your every move; sometimes just breathing, destroys a little bit--or destroys a lot. It's just impossible; human beings were not meant to be there. For that reason it has been pretty much declared off-limits by those who control access and, at their request, by the understanding owner. It is gated and considered closed to general visitation. I fully support that practice. It is in the cave's best interest.
Maybe, in the best interest of both cave conservation and caver appreciation, someone can volunteer to develop a web page, perhaps a non-linked one, showing photos of the cave so Texas cavers can take a virtual tour without violating the delicacy of the cave's environment. I would hope that we could find a few volunteers to contribute representative photos in pursuit of those goals.
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