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meandering, narrow canyon. This passage was
not mapped.
Reference: OVR Karst Encounters Guidebook:
1990,1991 D.Black
CIG Cave Capers Guidebook: 1984, 1990
This cave is on public property. The old cave
is a normal horizontal cave. The new cave
is very tight and has three pits requiring vertical
gear and 100-foot, 80-foot, and 60-foot ropes.
The dig section has loose rocks and is subject
to cave-ins.
BBUB, short for “Bats Brought Us Back,”
was discovered in 1982 as a result of digging in
a breakdown-choked sinkhole that was blowing
a plume of steam in the cold winter weather.
After six digging trips the sink had been cleared
to a depth of 6 feet with no cave in sight. At
the point of calling off further digging, a bat
emerged from the breakdown—the dig was on
and the cave had found a name! The entrance is
an enlarged crawlway for about 10 feet followed
by a 7-foot drop into the cave passage.
The cave is developed along bedding planes
with minimal joint control. The passage is
primarily crawlway, averaging 4 to 8 feet wide
BBUB
Harrison County Caves
MVOR Guidebook, 1987
ISS Newsletter 1#1, 8/77
BIG Guide to the Caverns of Harrison-
Crawford., 1963, R.Powell
OVR Karst Encounters Guidebook, 1989
By Noel Sloan
and 2 to 3 feet high. It appears to be developed in
the Paoli and upper Ste. Genevieve limestones.
Numerous chert nodules are evident in the
upper levels. The cave has developed along two
levels, a dry upper level with a sandy breakdown
floor and an active, intermittently-wet lower
level with either a cobblestone or clay floor. An
active stream can be seen at several points in
the lower level.
The lowest point in the cave is at the bottom
of a dome-pit about 50 feet inside the cave. Past
this dome, the cave continues as a friendly crawl
at about 30 feet below the entrance for some
450 feet until one encounters a small 4-foot
climb-down. At this junction, one can continue
in five directions either upper level upstream or
downstream or lower level upstream or one of
two downstream passages. A register has been
placed at this junction.
The upper level upstream cave continues as a
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