Garrison Cave #2 is currently 22,772 feet long (4.312 miles). Much of the surveying the last two years involved mapping the furthest reaches of passage explored during discovery trips in 1996 and surveying virgin passage.  Virtually all remaining passage to be surveyed is virgin at this point.  The remaining leads involve the furthest reaches of known cave upstream in North Creek and South Creek.  A dye trace project funded by an MSS research grant and Ozark Highlands Grotto helped to delineate the approximate boundaries of the recharge area that feeds North and South Creeks (the final report of this dye trace project is due to be published in MoSpeleo).  There is much potential cave remaining to be mapped, but since it is all virgin, we have no idea how much farther the cave can be mapped nor the characteristics of these unknown stretches of cave.  The cave could end soon, or it could go miles more.  We won't know until we get there. Persons wishing to help map the cave must be properly attired in wetsuits and expect to crawl through two 350-foot watercrawls just to get to the middle portion of the cave.  (The majority of the main passage is dry, walking passage, but there is also considerable dry crawling.) Once "Three Rivers" is reached, there is more watercrawl, but not all of it is crawlway to the furthest reaches.  The summer mapping trips in 2005 are the following Saturdays:  June 25th, July 30th and August 27th.
    For more information, contact Jonathan Beard at mokanman@att.net