2. Caving

2013-02: Spring Festival Expedition / San Wang Dong (public)

Hong Meigui's Spring Festival Expedition 2013 went into San Wang Dong, establishing an underground camp next to Da Luo Dang Tiankeng, and pushing leads in various directions.
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Breakfast time. Re-using the miners' hearth to shield our camping stoves from the wind.
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Breakfast time. Re-using the miners' hearth to shield our camping stoves from the wind.

  • Moonmilk off a side lead.
  • Moonmilk off a side lead.
  • A bat.
  • The same other bat.
  • Another bat.
  • Ascending another pit toward Tian Ping Miao Tiankeng.
  • On the way up.
  • On the way up.
  • After a number of pitches, aid climbing what would become the first of a series of traverses leading to Tian Ping Miao Tiankeng.
  • A random small lake with a random tiny waterfall coming in.
  • Dinner and reviewing notes from the day. We used freeze-dried meals imported from the US.
  • Breakfast time. Re-using the miners' hearth to shield our camping stoves from the wind.
  • Admiring fungus growing on a wooden log that got flushed into the cave, along with a bunch of trash from the surface.
  • Fungus.
  • Fixing a line.
  • View into Tian Ping Miao Tiankeng. Tiny cavers on the traverse line into the Tiankeng on the left-hand wall and in the entrance.
  • Yellow cavers traversing into the tiankeng.
  • Traversing into the tiankeng.
  • Tiankeng view with caver.
  • Exploring a potential lead in the tiankeng.
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