 brokhorn01.jpg |
 brokhorn02.jpg |
 brokhorn03.jpg |
| Saturday - Nov. 18th.... Oklahoma - Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains.... | Cavers from Oklahoma City, Altus, Lawton... | and even Weatherford converged on Betty's place to continue the mapping of Broken Horn Cave. |
 brokhorn04.jpg |
 brokhorn05.jpg |
 brokhorn06.jpg |
| It is Fall - Nice Garden Betty! | A week before Thanksgiving these turkeys are off to pick up where the previous teams had left off. | At the site we would split into two teams... one downstream... one upstream. |
 brokhorn07.jpg |
 brokhorn08.jpg |
 brokhorn09.jpg |
| The Target - That bowl...at the bottom is this little bitty hole that people like us enjoy squeezing though! | So Dale, Roy, and D head down... | It was blowing out of the hole some mighty warm air!! Much warmer than the 55 degrees of the outside! |
 brokhorn10.jpg |
 brokhorn11.jpg |
 brokhorn12.jpg |
| Hummm... do we have to go though there? Where's the stairs? the escalator? Elevator??? | Oh boy....here we go... and it's a tighty!! | It was pretty muddy as the last trip they had a lot of rain and couldn't do the cave survey. Lots of stuff washed in. |
 brokhorn13.jpg |
 brokhorn14.jpg |
 brokhorn15.jpg |
| It looks like a wild fungus is branching out to find nutrients left over from the rains. | There were LOTS of our little pinching friends (crayfish) in the pools while we hiked to the start point. | What the cave was named for... Broken Horn - A broken horn with part of the skull and vertebrae still attached. |
 brokhorn16.jpg |
 brokhorn17.jpg |
 brokhorn18.jpg |
| It has become quite mineralized along with many other bones strewn around the underground stream. | Cave formation made of pure crystal selinite. | Another chunk of clear crystal selinite shaped like Oklahoma! |
 brokhorn19.jpg |
 brokhorn20.jpg |
 brokhorn21.jpg |
| Worth another look on the beginning of Oklahoma's Centennial Celebration. | Roy scouting around at a rest point. | Dale from up high (up in the clouds) (actually the fog off of the Sol fat guy taking the picture) |
 brokhorn22.jpg |
 brokhorn23.jpg |
 brokhorn24.jpg |
| See...I actually go in caves too ... it was quite warm and I was sweating my rear off! | We finally got to the point where we were to pick up where Dale left off last time. | We check the map and try to figure out if a side passage is a parallel passage or unique. |
 brokhorn25.jpg |
 brokhorn26.jpg |
 brokhorn27.jpg |
| They left the flagging on top of a high rock (about 12 feet up) and it was covered in mud and gunk! Which means the cave floods to the ceiling in this area!! | The passage we were to start on. Roy ran book while Dale took readings. Duane learned how to use a brunton and hence...took a long time to do each point... sorry gang! | And the bat picture I always have to have!!! Of all the cave we only saw this one pip. It was just too hot! 62 degrees!! |
