Cave+of+Time

Return to the cave of time. Your heart races as you make your way through Snake Canyon, looking for the entrance to the Cave of Time. Though it’s a sunny summer day, you’re wearing a warm sweater under your all weather parka, as well as wool socks and pants. You don’t know where you’ll turn up once you’ve entered the cave, but you want to be ready for anything. Finally you reach the familiar grove of pine trees, but your hopes fade as you realize that landslides have covered the cave’s main entrance. Determined not to give up, you search the floor of the canyon until you find, behind hidden clumps of sage, another barely passable entrance. Crawling on hands and knees, you enter a tunnel that, judging by its direction, should lead to the main chamber. The tunnel seems endless and keeps curving to one side, as if it might be going around in a circle. After a half hour of crawling you feel tightening of the muscles in your throat--- the beginning of panic. There’s not enough room to turn around! You’re not even sure you can back out! Turn to page 3