This evening I ran with Daniel on the Barton Creek Green Belt. Last week we had talked about finding the Airmen’s Cave. So today we found it on Google Earth and stored its location in our GPS units. Then this evening we let our GPS units direct us to the cave. After a short bit of exploring, we were able to discover the cave.
One of the first things that gave us a clue was the mountain bikes — three of them — that were parked in the creek bed. Shortly after we saw them, we could hear muffled voices coming from the cliff directly ahead. As we progressed slowly up the canyon we spotted a young man standing on a ledge about fifteen feed above the river bed.
So we climbed about half way up the cliff and talked to the guy. He said that he and several of his buddies had found the cave on Google Earth, also and had come out to find it. They had ventured further into the cave than this guy wanted to go, so he had come back out. He described a little of what it was like inside.
After listening to his descriptions of the interior, neither of us were particularly keen on entering the cave, so we continued our run. We continued around the bend towards Zilker Park, going for another one a a half miles before we headed back towards our pickup trucks. The first half mile after the cave was rough going, because we were running on the river bed, which consisted of rocks of every size and shape. Not very forgiving on legs and feet!
Also, tonight I just did not feel like running. I am not really sure what the cause might have been. Perhaps the bike ride the day before wore me out more than I thought, or maybe I was tired because my sleep was so bad the night before. (I tossed and turned until about midnight when I got up and took Extra Strength Acetaminophen PM.)
Link to Garmin data.