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Sinking streams, sinkholes, springs, and caverns are common features of karst terrains and known to laymen as well as experienced cavers. The Lost River area has many classic examples of other subterranean drainage features, including swallowholes, dry bed or overflow channels, blind valleys, semiblind valleys, karst valleys, sinkhole ponds, karst fens (shallow sinkhole wetlands), karst windows, dolines, collapse sinkholes, gulfs, subterranean cut-offs, cave springs, and artesian or alluviated cave springs (Figure 17). Lost River heads in Washington County and flows westward as a normal surface stream until it reaches the eastern margin of the sinkhole plain (Figure 40). Here it sinks into the carbonate bedrock and flows through solution conduits to a resurgence some 7 miles to the west. Between the river’s sink and resurgence are some 22 miles of meandering dry bed. This section of the river’s channel contains no water except during extremely wet periods. Lost River is the largest sinking stream in the state with over 48 square miles of drainage disappearing underground at the sinks [although Indian Creek is reported to have 200 square miles (KS)]. The entire Lost River drainage basin contains about 355 square miles, but the topographic basin upstream from the True Rise of Lost River that contains about 144 The Lost River Field Trip Written and compiled by Kevin Strunk, LPG, using numerous guidebooks, especially the 1973 and 1992 NSS Convention Guidebooks (Powell and Bassett), and also including portions of field trips of the 1980 (Ruhe and Olson) and 1983 (Powell and Krothe) Geological Society of America conventions, various Indiana Geological Survey publications, and the independent work of Malott, Powell, Bassett, Armstrong, Hobbs, Fee, Deebel, and many others. The Lost River is covered on the Georgia, Mitchell, French Lick, and Paoli topographic maps, and is in Washington and Orange counties. Lost River Summary By Dr Richard L. Powell and John Bassett, LPG (edited and updated from the 1973 and 1992 NSS Convention Guidebooks, and the 1999 and 2003 Lost River and Spring Mill guidebooks of the Indiana Geological Survey) 163 square miles within the Mitchell Plain and Crawford Upland physiographic units is the part characterized by karst topography and subterranean drainage (Figure 30, Malott, 1922). The Mitchell Plain is a low karst plateau underlain with limestone bedrock of Mississippian age which is dipping slightly westward to underlie the Crawford Upland— a rugged dissected cuesta capped with shales, sandstones, and thin limestones of the Chester Series. The Mitchell Plain itself contains two very distinct physiographic divisions that are readily distinguishable in the field. The easternmost of the units is a gently undulating surface of slight relief. This area is regionally inclined to the west, and a rather sharp boundary exists between it and an extensive sinkhole plain to the west. The sinkhole plain occupies a belt extending north to south through the basin. The sinkhole plain has been cited as a classic karst area. It contains several well-known karst features such as dolines, swallets, springs, grikes, karst windows, and the like, which will be seen on the trip. The western boundary of the Mitchell Plain in the Lost River area is the prominent Chester Escarpment oriented along a reentrant valley into the Crawford Upland. Outliers of the Crawford Upland in the Mitchell Plain
Lost River Field Trip Figure 40. Map of the Lost River area showinfg subterranean drainage routes. (See Figure 42, 43, and 44 also) (modified from Powell, 1961, and Murdock and Powell, 1968). 145
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Back Underground in Indiana A Guide
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Contents Welcome from the NSS Presi
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Welcome from the NSS President Welc
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Welcome from the Governor of Indian
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Color Photography Section We are mu
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Section I: The Harrison Crawford Ar
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The Convention Planning staff is pl
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The Harrison County Visitors’ Cen
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per day, which includes the right t
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A Short History of Early Crawford C
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Section II: Exploration 1
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Deep below the hills of Crawford Co
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Gypsum flowers and crusts. Beyond S
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top of Fools Dome began to take onl
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The Discovery and Exploration of th
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previous surface survey of the gulf
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The Survey Begins On Saturday, Janu
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through January as well as every we
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and another team went into the seco
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were surprised to learn that a tigh
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Other Exploration in the Lost River
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flood tube really played on our min
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efore splitting and ending in break
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Two Bit Pit Harrison County, Indian
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Two Bit Pit c l i m b - d o w n i s
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Two Bit Pit 4
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downstream passage is generally 6 t
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Trip #16 August 12, 1990 Greg McNam
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ing into established survey at the
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An Exploratory Trip to Gory Hole: J
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the right side. It was necessary to
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The Exploration of Harrison Spring
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guide line was no longer in the ent
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first that day and had already gone
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along his dive buddy, Ralph, for hi
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visibility out was normal, about 3
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Section III: Geology and Cave Scien
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Regional and Karst Geology of the O
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plains, swallowholes, storm water r
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Regional Physiography and Stratigra
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closely this apparent relationship
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Regional Physiography and Stratigra
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Figure 6. Geologic map of south-cen
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margin of the Mitchell Plain, chara
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cavern development. Somewhat more t
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Geomorphic History of the Mitchell
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idge summits in the Crawford Upland
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Page 179 and 180: Ash, Donald W., 1985: Geomorphology
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Projected Passage Profiles for the
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The History and Status of Karst Ver
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Karst Vertebrate Paleobiology in In
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Karst Vertebrate Paleobiology in In
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Leidy’s peccary (Platygonus vetus
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Figure 8. Skull of the dire wolf, C
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Figure 11. The Bat Room of Megenity
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Mammalian Faunas during the Last De
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cene Paleoecology and Archaeology o
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Harrison was by far the largest spr
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drainage is north to Blue River. Th
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It may also be noted that Harrison
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Section IV: Indiana’s Cave Organi
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The Indiana Karst Conservancy, Inc.
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esource in cave and karst conservat
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Indiana Karst Conservancy daylight
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Indiana Karst Conservancy Heading f
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property. Meanwhile, Randy Jackson
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Number of Caves 1,000 Feet or Longe
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27. Warren 74 28. Miami 63 29. Foun
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Section V: History 235
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Lewis D. Lamon: Indiana’s Grand O
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will find a way in. Lewie’s softs
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George Jackson getting a drink at C
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Falls at the age of six, it was par
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weekends. Sometimes I would bring a
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Caves, Cave Rescue, and the Nationa
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lost or overdues or minor injuries:
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modular NCRC trainings have occurre
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A History of Indiana Caving We do k
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22 miles long. The addition of the
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Pace, Fort, Reeves, Sollman, Powell
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He formed a short-lived partnership
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manufactured history of Wyandotte C
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Section VI: Conservation 263
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The Richard Blenz Nature Conservanc
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The Richard Blenz Nature Conservanc
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pipe. Several dig trips subsequentl
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Lasiurus cinereus (horary bat), fem
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Myotis septentrionalis (northern my
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Cavers have already contributed lar
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ugs. • Pick up litter (use good j
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Section VII: Miscellaneous 27
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Bluespring Caverns “Myst’ry Riv
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Marengo Cave, located on the edge o
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of the cave, the scout program was
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avid spelunkers and loved the cave.
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Indiana Show Caves hire Richard L.
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Section VIII: Cave Descriptions 2 1
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Cave Maps and Descriptions The foll
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een made but a voice connection sho
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intersection. The left-hand passage
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enters from a too-low passage but a
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This pit is located on a heavily wo
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Main Passage in Erics River Cave. P
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drive road. There is a pull off on
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in 50 feet. This cave has pits and
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crawling, and very little belly cra
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Not to be confused with Harrison Co
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The Old Town Spring Entrance to Mar
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placed about 150 feet inside the en
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decorated grotto. In the south end
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Robinson Ladder Cave is an Indiana
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dates. Also, except for the entranc
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Saltpeter Cave Crawford County Cave
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This cave is located along the base
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of Texas Creek and is about half a
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water is from B-B Hole, a nearby ri
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Harrison County Caves 1915 Cave was
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meandering, narrow canyon. This pas
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was rigged in 1979 by Tom Fritsch a
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Jamie Winner at Big Mouth Spring Ca
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drop. At the bottom of this drop is
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Dave Stahl at the top of the first
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Nick Smith has arranged access to t
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he returned to remove this ledge, s
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on the left side of the main passag
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degree angle. At the bottom of the
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Ryan Moran climbing Gary Pit. Photo
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This cave is presently the main cav
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You can get to the pit in two diffe
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Willie Hunt at the entrance to Jays
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T he entrance to King Leo Cave is a
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The 40-foot-tall canyon. Photo by E
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way, flowstone and some gypsum flak
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Manhole Cave, Corydon West 7.5-minu
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CIG Cave Capers Guidebook: 1984, 19
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the 56-foot drop known as The Cathe
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Sharon McConnell in Rocky Hollow Ho
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Seitz Pit, also known as Fuzzys Pit
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Harrison County Caves 375
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with the sandy crawlways and contai
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it opens into Tourist Avenue. The l
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and connects back to the main strea
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to a small room with moss-covered f
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The Donaldson Cave entrance in 1938
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Dave Stahl in the lower level of Bu
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Dave Everton beginning the rappel i
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the owner, is quite friendly to res
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Roberts Cave was opened in 2001 by
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Mike Kennedy at the South Y in Sull
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Lawrence County Caves Sullivan Cave
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with breakdown. One passage to the
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Wayne Cave is the property of the I
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The natural bridge at Camp Two. Pho
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Dillon Cave is located in the Hoosi
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Lost River Cave should be considere
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Janie Atz preparing to cross the li
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Tom Duselis looking at cannonballs
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Owen County Caves 413
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Washington County Caves Cave River
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and continues as such to the Flowst
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een known as the Wet Clifty Cave an
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water depth, this passage eventuall
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After entering the gate at Henderso
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head of a dry ravine. The first 300
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at the Trinkle Cavern Entrance. Alt
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Section IX: Color Photography 42
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Bill Baus in the Formation Room in
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A cannonball in the Boone-Cannonbal
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John Harris in Binkleys Cave’s He
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Aaron Atz in CHUG Hall in Teds Dig.
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Cavers in the Wayne Cave crawlway.
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Willie Hunt in Jewel Box Cave. Phot
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Nate Newkirk in Lower Wild Turkey C
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Nate Newkirk in Redmond Cave. Photo
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A Abram, Jerry 400 Abram, Marie 400
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Cooper, James Fenimore 260 Cope, E.
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Elliot Stahl with the warning sign
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Hodges, Frank 393 Holiday World The
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McGowan, Dave 256 McGrain, Preston
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P.B.R. Plunge 369 Packard’s groun
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Spaulding, Greg 254, 255, 365 spide
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Dave Stahl ascending Fuzzy Hole. Ph
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