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2007 NSS Convention Guidebook
the other is a 5-foot-wide, 2-foot-high muddy
crawlway. Both ways lead to the large room.
Most people do the crawl, which is only 15 feet
long and opens into the Junction Room. In this
room there is a 20-foot climbable blind pit. To
the left is a canyon passage that turns into a duck
walk after 100 feet. In another 50 feet there is
a hole along the left wall that drops 5 feet into
the large room. The passage continues past this
hole for another 250 feet, most of which is a
crawlway. It finally ends in a mud fill with some
small tree roots and earthworms.
The large room is 300 feet long, 60 feet wide,
and 15 feet high—big by Indiana standards.
In the middle of the room there is a large
breakdown mountain on top of which is a row
of stalagmites. On the west side of the room
is a 75-foot-high dome. A small stream exits
from the top of this dome and sinks into the
breakdown floor of the room. In the northeast
corner of the room there is a small, well-
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Al Clemons at the second pit, a 15-foot climb-down.
Photo by Dave Everton.