The Glacière de St-Livres
You'd
scarcely notice it as you saunter by, as on the 11th of April 2004, that pleasant
grove of trees behind the stone corral near the farm
of Pré de St-Livres.
Hikers
are marching resolutely towards the big gouffre, 12 April 2004.
A Green
Gate thoughtfully placed above the big gouffre for the convenience of wavering
potential suicides.
Lots
of icy things hanging down, and a fair ways down the nearer slope, an ancient
iron ladder bolted into the rock to assist those who are passing up and down through
the abyss on their way to somewhere else.
Seen
from up the hill a ways -- there's the iron ladder, below the Green Gate on the
far side, leading down into where the underworld beings await.
What
a sizable gouffre!
Since
then, someone has laid on a very fine stair and platform halfway down, as Gordana
found in June 2005.
As an
expert from Slovenia in subterranean karst formations, she was anxious to bring
photos back to her colleagues in the ministry of environment.
The
red dot shows the Glacière de St-Livres.
Very
big holes of the Jura |
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