To get there I was crawling face-down in mud for almost as long as I spent shooting. The trip was going to be memorable long before we arrived in the large cavern with intricately ornate gypsum crystals.
This is Silent Splendor.
This is where drawing upon my last cave photo experience I managed to thin down my gear to only 35 lbs (before coating it with a half ton of mud for the trip out). Far preferable to the ~65 lbs of gear used in Swirling Mist, and especially appreciated when it came time to haul everything up the 30 foot vertical mud chimney.
Thank you again to Denyse an Laura, my most patient and helpful caving compatriots w/o whom such trip would have not only have been impossible (access is VERY restricted), but also not nearly as successful. (...and fun!)
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