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Dave Stahl at the top of the first drop.
Photo by Elliot Stahl.
37-foot drop to a mud floor. A huge flowstone
drapery hangs on the opposite wall. A ledge
behind this dripstone leads to a low, muddy
crawl which quickly ends.
Editor’s note: BRR is a delicate cave. Remember
to Tcave softly.
he entrance to Blue River Run Cave was
discovered by Ron Adams on a ridge walk
with Danny Dible on December 28, 1986. It is
in the Harrison Crawford State Forest in an area
of Wyandotte Ridge isolated by Interstate 64.
The entrance was a blowing hole that was not
immediately penetrated. On April 25, 1987,
the team of Ron Adams, Danny Dible, Greg
McNamara, Joe Oliphant, and Ted Wilson
pioneered a route through the entrance. The
entrance is a funnel-shaped hole leading to a
slightly exposed climb-down. Near the bottom,
the floor slopes into a funnel-shaped room
Blue River Run Cave
Harrison County Caves
The top of the second drop. Photo by Dave Black.
By Ron Adams
heading to the northeast. Across the room is
a 20-foot belly crawl over a slab that ends on
a ledge overlooking a walking passage. The
passage continues northeast for over 600 feet
as a spacious Wyandotte-like walking passage
to a breakdown pile with some crawling leads.
Probing the breakdown in three separate rooms
they found two small, blind pits and a climbdown
lead.
On June 7, 1987, the explorers returned
with the help of Dave Black and Glenn
Lemasters to push the breakdown and the pits
and to map the cave. The first floor lead is a
downward climb through breakdown blocks
about 250 feet from the entrance. This leads
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