Scrub Team 08

Long ago, Carlsbad used to use water hoses to spray down the trails each day to keep them clean. The problem was, it would spray the dirt, stuff tracked in, lint, etc... all over the parts of the cave that hugged the trail. So our valiant band of restoration experts (Anne, Dale, and Lil) along with Tom Bemis (Carlsbad Cave Resources Specialist) and our Carlsbad leader, get to tackle one rock in particular that hugs the trail in the Natural Entrance Section to see if really hard scrubbing, can indeed, recover the natural rock from the polluted pile that it is. Click on any photo to see an enlarged version.
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Tom giving instructions on which rocks need restoration next to the trail.	The "Before" picture of a trail rock that has "years" of trail dirt sprayed on it.	So the scrubbing begins!!
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PROGRESS!!!!! It's alive!!!!	Wow! Almost back to natural rock!! Nothing but a LOT of elbow grease! (and a LOT of water!)
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Last updated: 5/4/08