8/17/2023 0 Comments Cavern zebra patternI know when I left for a walk today, I never expected to find a hidden hangout spot underneath a cliff. The cave was an awesome discovery, and I can imagine it being the perfect place to hang out on cool summer nights. Even the few marks of cave graffiti very neatly painted on the walls offered no incite.Īt the top of the waterfall Looking up the ledges I wondered, who put the effort into making this cool cliff side hangout, when and why? And maybe the best question, how many people know about it? But all was a mystery. It was definitely a cool place, something I’d most likely build myself if I had more ready access to a cave. For an awkward section, I had to crouch down on my knees to get back further, and just when I thought I had reached the end, the cave suddenly opened back up again and created a sort of second chamber, with a rock seating area along the back wall, and some cool stand alone ice formations on the frozen cave floor. Now the cave was getting narrow and the ceiling was getting lower, ice water was dripping down the back of my neck. A wicker basket was placed on a rock table, with a pair of Zebra striped glasses left inside. Greeting me almost right away was a very cool site, a makeshift bench made from driftwood hauled up from the nearby beach, and a DIY fire pit, with the scatterings of ash still inside.įurther behind the sitting area, some artifacts had been left behind. What I had assumed to be small was actually a very decent sized chamber that went far back underneath the ledges. Of course, when you stumble upon a cave, natural instinct is to go inside and check it out, and that’s what I did. ![]() I decided to get closer.Īs I got closer, and decided it was safe enough to approach without falling down what I had just climbed up, I realized it was more than just an indent in the rocks, I was starting at the mouth of a cave. Gripping onto the skeletons of exposed tree routes and getting filth all over my jacket, I found myself staring up at a frozen waterfall of snow runoff, and behind it, the telltale blackness of a crevice in the cliff face. ![]() My hands and feet slipped constantly in the muddy banks, a sure sign that mud season is right around the corner. Walking along a cold cobblestone beach underneath sentinel cliffs, amazed at how all the trees above me were growing and surviving from their strange perches amidst crumbling stone, I let my cabin fever get the best of me, and started climbing up ledges and over trees, enjoying the “warm” afternoon. ![]() It meant Spring, and everything was fragile. A warbling, trembling uncertainty rumbled below the atmosphere as the lake surface cracked and groaned, and the distant sounds of water tumbling down dirty cliffs meant snow melt. Looking at the cracked surface of a grey Lake Champlain, the landscape seemed warn down and tired. The awkward transitional period between the death of winter and the explosion of spring is a rough one.
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