Post by jonsdigs on Jan 15, 2009 5:39:44 GMT -5
Memories offer glimpse of cave in Garden of the Gods
January 14, 2009
DAVE PHILIPPS
THE GAZETTE (Colorado Springs)
A Gazette story in late December exploring the history of a little-known and long-barricaded cave in Garden of the Gods suggested that all living memory of the cave is lost.
It didn't take into account the sturdy mind of 88-year-old Bill Eason or the middle- school high jinks of 59-year-old Mike Trapp.
Both men called The Gazette to say not only that they remembered the cave under the Kissing Camels, which local history buffs now want to unseal, but that they had been inside.
"It's huge, shaped sort of like a sailboat - long and tapering on both ends, with a high point in the middle" said Trapp, who sneaked into the cavern with friends in 1963.
"It's a big, hollow old deal filled with old initials," said Eason, who used the hole as a childhood hideout.
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January 14, 2009
DAVE PHILIPPS
THE GAZETTE (Colorado Springs)
A Gazette story in late December exploring the history of a little-known and long-barricaded cave in Garden of the Gods suggested that all living memory of the cave is lost.
It didn't take into account the sturdy mind of 88-year-old Bill Eason or the middle- school high jinks of 59-year-old Mike Trapp.
Both men called The Gazette to say not only that they remembered the cave under the Kissing Camels, which local history buffs now want to unseal, but that they had been inside.
"It's huge, shaped sort of like a sailboat - long and tapering on both ends, with a high point in the middle" said Trapp, who sneaked into the cavern with friends in 1963.
"It's a big, hollow old deal filled with old initials," said Eason, who used the hole as a childhood hideout.
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