Posted Mar 27, 2019, 2:51 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Austin <------------> Birmingham?
Posts: 57,337
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Yeah, they're mostly just entry points for the aquifer. My dad and uncles were big into caving back in the 60s and 70s. They even discovered some new rooms at Inner Space.
This is a bit off topic, but the article on page 3 of this PDF was written by my uncle Wolfgang, about his experience along with my dad, Andy, my uncle Thomas, and my aunt Linda and a few of their friends at Inner Space.
https://digital.lib.usf.edu/SFS0054982/00001
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In September, 1969, Roy Brooks, Roger Reed, and Wolfgang Lehnhardt dug through into a small room from this upper level. From there, a passage led to a large room with many formations and numerous leads. Several sodastraw columns over 6 feet long were found, The next trip was made by Wolfgang Lehnhardt, Thomas Lehnhardt, and Brian Peterson who discovered the pit leading to the First and Second Helictite Rooms, On several other trips, crawlways totaling 3.00 to 400 feet of passage were discovered, On December 20, 1969, Mike Bradley, Wolfgang, Linda, and Andy Lehnhardt made a trip to check leads from previous trips. After being in the cave several hours and getting ready to leave, Mike Bradley dug into a small room 7 feet high, 30 feet long, and 15 feet wide, The.re were three leads out of this room; one crawlway to the right, another crawlway to the left, and a 4 foot chimney which led into a large room. At the entrance to this room is a pit about 30 feet deep. Beyond, on large breakdown with inu.ch flowstone and many sodastraws, several leads were . fo11nd, The most obvio1,1s was followed for about 600 feet with several pits 15 to 20 feet deep in the center of the .passage. Much box-work was encountered throughout this section. At the end of this, a passage from 10 to 30 feet high and 6 to 20 feet wide leads to a room with extensive breakdown, Passages lead to the right and left from this room. The left hand tunnel becomes a crawlway and the r.ight hand tunnel narrows to a stoopway on flow sto~e and contains many sodastraws.
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