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| I can see a new sign... DUCK! Rock ahead! <grin> | The stuff is settled for now... but we didn't craw over the stuff either! (Cavers aren't that stupid!) | The rock all the way down on the stairs. You have to go though that hole a bit smaller than a manhole. |
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| Looking back down the 'trail' back to the lighted gypsum. Don't think even wild cave tours would like it here! | Big brown on one of the new rockfall rocks. Maybe he did it!! | Some of that old pipe they use for the handrails was pretty tough! It was holding up some big weight! |
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| I tried to take a panoramic picture... not sure it does it justice. | I'm sorry but the trail is closed now - Turn around! | |
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| Mike also noticed that the trail afterwards is cracking up. No foot traffic for almost a month now. | He wanted pictures of the trail to have it documented. | |
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| My foot for measurement | The turn around point for the guided tour... they get here and turn back. | |
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| The kids having fun in Gun barrel tunnel | ||
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| Survey points - in the future they will be able to use lasers to see any movement in the cave. | But back to what we came for... time to look (and count bats!) | You'll see a lot of pictures of the same bat or bat mat in the following pictures. |
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| That way scientists can look at the details and see the health of our bats in the cave. | A Tri-colored bat. Seemed we had a lot of these this year! | An 'official' stalactite in Alabaster Caverns! No, two of them... wait... is that a third? It's about 50 feet high and small so we used a camera to zoom in. |
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| Common cave myotis (Myotis velifer) | All our bats looked healthy... no visible signs of WNS on any that we could see. | We did not swab this year. We'll probablly do it every two years or until the onset of WNS on our bats. |
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| Dang! How do they hang with those little feet?? | ||
