![]() Into that one-half mile is crowded more beauty, more grandeur and desolation, and wild loveliness than brushes could paint or words could describe if they worked for twenty lifetimes. Georgia Davies poetically describes the spectacle she witnessed:įor one-half mile, the stream plays hide and seek in the dusky chambers and under the piled-up boulders before it leaps out laughing into the air. Judging by an 1874 New York newspaper article, they certainly did. Later, Royal blazed a trail and started guided tours, believing the city tourists, who in the late 1800/s flocked to the White Mountains, would find these caves as fascinating as he did. The brothers found more and more caves as they continued to explore the region. Lyman helped him out and the astonished brothers rushed home to recount their extraordinary tale. He had fallen through a moss-covered hole and dropped 15 feet below into a cave now known as Shadow Cave. In 1852, two brothers, Royal and Lyman Jackman were fishing when Lyman disappeared from sight. They were first documented in a story that has been compared to Alice’s tumble- down-the-rabbit-hole in Alice in Wonderland. Even the story of how the caves were discovered is pretty amazing to them. ![]() “Kids think it’s very cool,” Jeffrey says. For most kids, it’s a breeze and they love playing hide-and-seek in the passageways and crawl spaces among the granite boulders. Note to self: Never eat a dessert that is deep-fried.įortunately, the Lemon Squeezer is the most difficult cave to navigate and the others are more forgiving. Go through the gap head first on your left side and crawl along…” – I’ve heard enough and decide to bypass the cave, staying on the trail. “Crawl under the large boulder, go feet-first into a small pit. But it does, and now I’m paying the price as I listen to Jeffrey explain how to negotiate through the cave, formerly called Fat Man’s Misery. Before last night, I didn’t known such a thing existed. Last night’s dessert comes back to haunt me – after all, it was deep-fried cheesecake. A couple of the more agile (and thinner) members of our group quickly shimmy through and enter the ‘Lemon Squeezer,’ one of the more than a dozen caves at the Lost River Gorge in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ( I hesitate. “If you can squeeze through the gauge, you can get through the cave,” Deb Jeffrey, our guide, informs us.
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