Selected Photos from Rutahsa's 2003 Guatemala Caving Adventure

Eric looking at the Río Lanquín underground

Here's a selection of photos from Rutahsa Adventures' 2003 Guatemala caving trip:

Cueva Setzol, our second cave:

• Our group in the main entrance to Cueva Setzol
• Getting ready to swim downstream to the skylight entrance.
• Ducks in a row!

The nearest thing to a cave at the Mayan ruins of Aguateca, the fosa, a geologic oddity: a two km-long, open tension crack.

The trip downstream in Cueva Candelaria...

• Cueva Candelaria has many entrances, this one frowns upon visitors
• Typical Candelaria main passage was huge!
• Swimming out one of the many entrances

A few shots from Grutas de Lanquín, on beyond the commercial section. Participants: Ric Finch, Mary Gratsch, Jef Levin, and Eric Weaver.

• Jef at the Nacimiento del Río Lanquín
• The drop just beyond the lights and commercial section
• Mary climbing the drop, belayed by Eric
• Jef and impressive big fallen stalactite
• Eric and Jef resting in a well-decorated grotto
• Eric wonders where all that water comes from...and is going to..

Scenes from our trip to Cueva San Antonio, with participants Ric Finch, Christine Gerace, Mary Gratsch, Philip Greer, Jef Levin, Pete Miller, Eric Weaver, and Larry Wuest.

• Guatemalan style caving vehicle, our transport to the village of Caxlampon
• Christine, Jef and Eric in the entrance to Cueva San Antonio
• Christine and spectacular breccia in the cave wall of Cueva San Antonio, not far from the entrance
• Pete coming down the first drop, about 95 ft
• Philip admiring rimstone just past the first drop
• Christine and a small portion of a massive flowstone formation in one of the big rooms
• Resting beneath beautiful formations
• Philip coming down one of the short drops
• Another waterfall and short drop
• Pete descending the last rigged drop, no. 6

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