Description: Enticing me to no-end, this spectacular column of 8 to 10 cm multi-hued crocoites overwhelmed me with its beauty and with its screaming and reckless taunting… What a scary target! Note the scars of barren rock all about the column, these mark areas where material had collapsed naturally at some point in the far distant past. These are the original locations for a percentage of the cobbles we’d been collecting from down lower in the pocket. Also note the draped fence of stalactites on the hanging wall just before the column and stretching from the center of the photo over towards its right hand side. The stalactite just off center is magnificently perfect, those on its right show a bright orange scar at their tips where sections of falling foot wall had slid past, scuffing their terminations tragically.

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