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Permit: ????
Leader: Jamie Euliss
 

date: 6-20-04
manager: Mike Hartley
Assessment: Upstream Thunder
participant1: John Ryder
participant2: Seth Mayberry
participant3: Dustin Young
participant4: Mike Hartley
TimeIn: 11:30 AM
TimeOut: 7:30 PM
Date: Thursday June 24, 2004
Time: 12:00 PM

purpose:

Continue Cleaning on formations at the Water Barrier, then go up Thunder River to Convention Hall for photo trip.

details:

The ones of us that camped Saturday night at the School house got up Sunday morning around 8 o'clock. We were expecting two more participants to come around nine or nine thirty that morning. We waited and got our gear ready. It was about ten when we decided to go to the entrance.

Once in the cave We started toward the Water Barrier. Mike sent us on ahead to get a quicker start on things. We picked a big once white flow stone that was just before the spot and to the left of were Eddie's trip had cleaned. We took a few "before" shots and then started cleaning. It is amazing the amount of stuff that comes off with just a little elbow grease and water.

The Brushes Mike brought this time worked real well along with scotch pads. Sponges have there times and uses but are really not durable enough for heavy scrubbing.  We thought next time to try and find bigger brushes and bring more of them. After a lot of use the brushes wear down to nothing. When we stopped there was still little places of mud coming off, but some of it is stained.

After done cleaning and soaking up the excess water on the ground, we took "after photos." There was a huge difference shown and with more time and brush heads could come even cleaner. We then headed back to then entrance. Mike exited the cave and the rest of us went up thunder river in search of convention hall. Thinking we were looking for a side passage on the right instead of the left we went past convention hall. Because of the time we had been gone from the entrance we knew it must have been the side we had seen earlier on the left. All of us having plans that evening decided to take a few pictures were we were and turned around to come out not going to convention hall.

When we got out it was nice to see daylight getting out much earlier than usual. Thanks to all the participants. All and all the work we got done at the Water Barrier made it a good trip for Resto.


RestoNeeded:

Broken or mud stained formations.
Graffiti
(FOD) Foreign Object debris
High traffic area
Miscellaneous