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Wednesday, March 4, 1970

The Canadian. Speleolo-~-
gical Society is a group of
people who enjoy hiking and
mountain climbing under-
ground and who do not have
fears of closed spaces and
heights. The president is
Jean-Jaques. Adnre; vice-
president, Paul Statham;
and..members Frank -Mar-~
tin, Sheila thomson, Tom

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Corner McTavish & East Saanich

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Tuttle. The function of the

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club is to find a pattern
in caves. on Vancouver Is-
land, and Tuttle tells about
it. in the accompanying ar-

ticle.

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Sliced or Whole

Vancouver Island is the richest
area. in -Canada in limestone
caves, Although our caves don’t
have many formations, (because
the. Island’ has. been newly
formed), they are interesting in
that many. have rivers and water~
falls, and many have unknown
passages. which can. be reach
only by strenuous’ work. These
caves are formed by. shifts in
the earth, and carved out by either
the sea or by rivers. Many are
“extremely ‘dangerous, and Hour-
glass Cave is no exception.

Hourglass: Cave has received
its name by its shape. . The
known. entrance, (others. have
“been found by theory work, but
have. not. been -discovered), is
above..the cenire. of the cave,
# .and tunnels run north and south,
1 widening at the ends. The cave,
‘when mapped, . looks — generally
like--an- hourglass ° turned on its
side.

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‘Hourglass Cave is one of many
caves. which the Cc Se S. has dis~
“covered, ° This particular cave"
had -been found along with se-
veral other. entrances, by our.
scouts a’week earlier. This one
‘i looked the most promising.’ Like
‘most. caves on Vancouver Island,
-it- had “not. been explored, and
we. were: the: first people to ‘ever.
enter, it. :

We left for the. cave at four ..
o’clock » one morning, : and: after.
driving. through amaze of logging:
roads’ at Lake’ Cowichan, wear= >
rived. ‘at the: beginning of a: set:

took out’ our: ‘equipment;. ropes,
rope ladder, pitons, flashlights,
candies, matches, ete..Wechan~
ged into our coveralls, and put on
‘our hardhats, equipped ‘with
lights. A rope: “was. tied toa:

‘the’ rope. ladder was . attached,
because Of a sheer drop of. forty.
feet. One by one; we descended
“into the cave, and gathered atthe
bottom, one, hundred feet under=
a ground, bee Mp
We. first went, south, The tun= :

“nel was -a very easy walk, not.
“winding mich, and.at the end of
. this section was. a: sump, im-=°
measurably deep. | ‘The water
was perfectly clear, and. our
lights shone tar. down, ~ Along.
the. sides of the sump were sem
veral oyeless er aWwtish, evolved
through years of total darkness, .

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Though time and life has placed us i
In a world nee we're far apart. ‘
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LAURENCE TUTTLE

Looking to the left, I saw the
skeleton of a deer settled on the
earth. One of its legs was bro-
ken, So it must have fallen down
the cave. Jt reminded me of
the poem, ‘‘David’’, where the two
boys. saw the corpse. of a> moun-
tain- goat beneath a cliff, andreas
lized that even. the surest could

fall,

Above our heads. was a-hole:
on . the ceiling about three feet
across. We had our pitons with
us, So Jean~Jaques climbed up
the wall, banging in pitons, and
attaching ropes.
rely on for. safety was the high

tion was different,

All he could -

"pitched ring of the pitons, and his

safety lines... Crawling under that
low ceiling didn’t look like fun
to me and I was quite content
to remain behind,

Finally he reached the ‘‘door”’
of the tunnel, and climbed up out
of sight. .We. again heard the
banging of metal against metal,
and at last a rope was tossed
down, with the order of ‘¢Mon-
tez ici! Vite! ”

We ascended into the tunnel
and pulled. ourselves over the
edge into a. new cavern... The
room was completely filled with
formations. Flowstone covered
the floor and walls, and cur-
tains descended several feet. The
ceiling was. stuccoed with stalac~
tites, and beneath them were the
beginnings of hundreds of stalag-
mites, The whole room was
bright orange, and. looked like.a
picture from a-é fantasy book.

After taking scores of pictures,
we. descended again, and headed
toward: the north end, -This sec-
in that the
floor was cover ed’ with wet sand.
We avoided the sand as much
as possible, as it: made for very
labourious and dangerous walk-~

away

ing.. We soon discovered that
the tunnel divided into two, one
running above the other. It was
here ‘that. we’ parted into two
groups, four staying on-the lower
hallway, and F'renchy and I gcing
up.

We walked for twenty yards,
and found that our hallway ta~

pered down to an eighteen inch.

hole, We. then crawled on our
bellies. for an agonizing fifty
yard through two inches of mud
and water, pulling ourselves for~
ward without any handholds but
the slippery mud. We now dis-
covered with shock that the tunnel
was completely clogged with mud,
and that we had no place to turn
around. Quite exhausted, - we
rested. on our bellies for a few
minutes, deciding what to do,

After. awhile, Frenchy SUg-
gested to try to dig ourselves
out, as he thought that -the tun-
nel continued after the clogged
section. As I. was in front of

him, and could not back out, 1.

had no alternative but to claw
at the mud. I dug. away
for a few minutes, and crawled
onward another four inches, Sud-
denly the mud-in front of me
gave away and fell to the bottom

of another cavern. Voices could
be heard below, and someone
shone up a light. It was quite
a relief to know we were near —
the rest of the party, but we now
had to go through an extremely
narrow passage three feet
long, and nine inches high. I
struggled to turn over on my
back, then put my hands outside
the tunnel, and Jean-Jaques and
Paul tried to pull me through.
I wanted to breath, but couldn’t
for my chest was pressed against
the ceiling... Now I knew what
claustrophobia was! I tried to
Scream. so they would pull har~
der, but I couldn't. I deflated
myself, and they pulled again.
They yanked again and again, and
finally I was pulled through,

Frenchy’s ° turn “was not as
drastic as mine, as he weighed
thirty. pounds. less,’ However,
he too had: to deflate. himself in
order to get through. . He too
was very much relieved to make
it.

Our party continued north, We
discovered that there was another
‘sump at this end, and it com-
pletely closed off the tunnel. We
had now seen as much of the cave

as we had wished to ‘see, and
were ready to go back, when,
to our amazement, the water
in the sump disappeared.

This is the dreaded fear of
speleologists, A sump in a
cave is much like the sea, for
when it recedes suddenly, it re-
turns suddenly, much like a tidal
wave. Silently, we picked up
our equipment, and strode quickly
to the rope ladder. One by one,
we ascended, up, out of the cave,
We sat silently around the en-
trance, listening for the rumb=
lings of an underground geyser,
Then. we heard the roar of the
flash flood, and we knew that
the cavern was filled with water,

How ‘often this. geyser erupts, .

we don’t know, but the C.S.s,
will go. back to find this out, to

‘map the cave, and to explore
its unknown regions,

€
Impaired Driver

Marvin Ernest Dahigren. of |

Victoria was fined $400 in Central
Saanich police court on Monday
as a result of an impaired driving
charge. Mr. Dahlgren was also
prohibited from driving for three
months.

= 1961.

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Cost of ‘Money a OIA ge
One of the. big factors. contributing to the need. lor. a fate, are
‘increase i is the cost of | money that must he borrowed to pay for”
new generating plants, transmission lines, “substations and: diss.
“inibution facilities to serve new customers. The following tables.
taken from Bi ink of Canadit Statistical Stimmary. for the month of
PNR January 1970, shows the rapid rise in interest rates pi Wd since 1965
om selected Pruvincial hone i issues;

DATE

Inflation Mainly io Blame
Inflation i is something: everyone has learned about the hard “way. :

_ The cost of food, housing, services, in fact. almost everything in.
othe family budget has risen to, record levels. Dominion Bureau of

“Statistics records show that the’ cost of living has risen 2¢ a since.

: One of the. few exceptions i in British Columbia ‘during. this per iod
co) ing, prices has: been the’ cost of electricity. According: to the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics ; the consumer price. index C 961

Inflation Has ‘Caught Up with B. C. Hydro, too. :

“Like other major utilities throughout Canada and the United °
raught ir in. an ‘unprecedented inflationary squeeze.

: COMPARISON OF B. C. HYDRO RESIDENTIAL ELECT RIC RATES WITH COST OF LIVING ©.
- AND PERSONAL INCOME iN BRITISH COLUMBIA ||

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wes How Our Rates Compare. with Other ‘Areas.
/Even with the announced i increases, B
will be belowthe average across North Americ a. There are as many ©
- areas with higher rates.as with lower rates, Naturally, most critics
~ select the latter. Such comparisons are nicaningless unless all the ©
factors affecting rates are considered — just as it would be mean:
‘ingless to compare B. c. “Hydro rates’ with those i in areas where.

» electric ity costs more,

2 RATES IN ANY AREA REFLE CT THE costs OF. PROVI-
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