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| A few pictures of people up on the upper ledge (taken from the bottom) | The trail gang... | |
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| Back up to the top... | ||
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| This section has been closed for many years due to the collapse... the trail is quite rocky from debris over the years. | Even guano is starting to collect on the stairs (Picture coming up) | |
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| Guano getting thick on the steps | ||
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| Mike is our recorder. Others up and down call out numbers of bats and Mike writes them down. | Coming down the collapse area... the sidewalk is under a massive boulder! | Everyone getting their breath after crawling under the breakdown to the clean and used side of the trail. |
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| Then a few of us went down to a small stream room and counted some bat mats and took pictures there too! | ||
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| These bats are heavy into hibernation so don't even know we're there! | A hand to give you scale on how big these common cave bats (Myotis Velifer) are. | |
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| We used to call this a Pip, but now he's called a Tri-Color. | On future pictures of bats, you may see the same bat over and over. | |
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| But we do that so the scientists that look at these pictures can see the overall health externally. | It seemed all of our bats were clean and showed no signs of distress | A few checking off trail to see if any bats didn't want to be counted |
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