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th of Ms yyy t is shoiL^** Cjdmtms Uergrowid Dear Helen ;re I am, aflxploring was the hobby too ... I (I'e other boys and 1 pur- here . . . Sb home. The rolling hills ere at 10:30atains of Maryland, Penn- place—infori\nd West Virginia are full Thalhimer B)ne caves. On Sunday aft- ■ population nd on other free days, we t today foie into a truck or jeep and . . I don’t I a cave. Sometimes we . Surely, tramp through fields or lore generouSeks and rivers hunting for a lot this you and likely looking open- )n coat I wa'liffs of old quarries. We les—that gii^e location of some caves ly homerooin)ook in the public library er gotten fatists the location of every ler? ... I fOave in the state of Mary- )h, I remembalso contains some maps, len . . . Nifexploring is, in a way, a V her ... She mountain climbing, ex- igain. ; it is inside the earth. In )es one of m)ves we came upon pits as i with bundk thirty feet, slipf^ry mud he’s playing Stearns, and very tight pass- ’t me . . . Ho st) some of these caves are ^here is my ^’Ottnations such as: stalac- ch has stopp^iagmites, flowstone, rim- Her presents id cave coral, ing for, thoibtimmer we visited and ex- Jo Ann Mill^^lve different caves. We Id is that drititee trips to one cave be- ist be seven S lack of equipment to ex- And weave of its size. Inside the I never thoD- is a twenty foot pit into like To Ann descended by rope. At the Oh, horro'ls a narrow muddy passage, him to that 'lot of hard, muddy crawling, ... How another pit. We had to get in the saf’Ok there because our only ■ is she?? . . first pit. The next I just about I'o returned with more rope ^ Who, or rascended both pits. At the of fur undet ol the second is a stream intr h^t! TasP We explored upstream, thou fled! .. ‘S through the cold water, now . . . Oh '*^0 came to a large side 1 dear aunt! ■ "^he formations on the roof beautiful. end of the passage is a large r WlLTSl*vith a hi^h ceiling. From the passage proved to be a ;ac; so we turned back. The eek we went back and fin* Donald Kreh A large cave system if thoroughly mapped offers special opportuniries to biologists, paleontologists, and geologists. A hydrologist can Ih^t- ally study inside the natural plumb ing of a water table. About two months after we had been in a large cave in West Vir ginia, scientists from Philadelphia, some of them members of the Na tional Speleological Society, made a great discovery. They dynamited another entrance to the cave and gained access to a part where no other explorer had been. In a large room they found the skeletons of two Indians, one a twenty-five year old male, and the other a twelve year old girl. The men took the re mains back to Philadelphia for further study. Since then the cave has been boarded up to prevent the destruction of anything else which might still be there. _ As we move carefully forward in an unexplored cave we have to think back. We must not only be sure that we could get back up every crack we have slipped down, but also we have to remember the sequence of cracks, holes, pits, bends, and canyons. The darkness that withdraws ahead also closes in behind. Even though there is an ele ment of danger involved in this sport, we all enjoy it very much. One oLthe reasons we like this sport is the pursuit of the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. Cf Fog, »T w WwiiL L/it-Wlv iiLlLi that ride xploring the stream passage wind that © mapp^ the front part of e. I, that's healing through these caves and ds I’d fashig them has more value than ,/T'ving as an interesting hobby. that shrouds the w'orld in robes of moistened gray, that swirls a speckled nimbus ’round each light, that summons whispers and the muffled step, that crooks a misty finger in my face— And bids me slip within its blurry cloak. ^Sandra Hickman Dear Helen, It’s snowing, and I wish you were here to see it. It’s beautiful! As 1 was coming up the hill from sup per, it had just turned dark and the lights were on. Everything looked as if God were using a giant dia mond-sifter and letting all the little diamonds fall through to the earth. Each one caught the street-light and sparkled like a many-faceted gem into a rainbow of colors. Borrow ing the words of a poer, the ground looked like "a chocolate pie with mounds of fluffy cream piled high. There’s nothing that puts me in a more sentimental mood than snow. It reminds me of the years when I used to play in it with my sisters at our old farm. Daddy would always fix up the hand-made sled, and we would go out to the pasture and glide down hills like ducks on a glass lake. It was loads of fun and we’d always come m with frozen fingers and toes, plus the inevitable runny noses. Mama always made hot chocolate for us to drink when we came in, and we d gradually thaw out as we sipped the steaming liquid and passed the freshly popped popcorn before the crackling fire. I’ll never forget the Christmas Eve that it sleeted all night. We got up at three o’clock on Christmas morning and it looked as if some one had poured a sugar glaze over the whole world. The moonlight reflected in thousands of long rock candy icicles that hung from bow ing tree branches. I was at the a^ when all the world was a fairy-land, and no one had disillusioned me; for this new' earth, turned crystal, made all my most fantastic dreams come true. Well, Helen, I’ll stop my remin iscing for a while, and go help my roommate make some snow-cream. Happy Wintertime! Your friend, Jane J ane Poplin HILLTOP—PAGE TWENTY-ONE iinej Ids iness Club It today, s meeting light. 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