Lost River - Karst Information Portal

2007 NSS Convention Guidebook
This cave is on public property. The 1- by 2foot
entrance is located just a few feet from
a side ravine and 100 feet from a major dry run
near the sandstone-limestone contact. A 100foot
rope is required for rigging the 57-foot
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Danny Dible at the entrance of Daly Pit.
Photo by Chris Schotter.
This pit was discovered in 1961 by Leroy
Vanscoy and J. McNutt. They reported it
to be 80 feet deep.
In 1969, Ted Wilson did a sketch map of
the pit and reported it to be 59 feet deep with
around 100 feet of passage at the bottom. In
June of 2002, Jerry Litaker and Jamie Winner
surveyed the pit. The entrance drop ended up
being 50 feet deep with 126 feet of horizontal
cave at the bottom. The total depth of the cave
was measured to be 86 feet deep. Devil Staircase
Daly Pit
Devils Staircase Pit
By Dave Black
drop. The first 12 feet are in a narrow canyon
before opening into a nice free fall drop. At one
end of the room is a large flowstone mass.
Pit is located in the Harrison County State
Forest, north of Loudens Pit and 1,200 feet
from the Crawford County Line. It situated
almost on top of the ridge near a very large
sinkhole. It also requires a 200-foot elevation
climb, a very good hump in hot weather. The
opening is around 6 feet across. Once in the
pit, it bells out to about 12 feet. A ledge is
encountered 28 feet down. At the base of the
drop is a large decorated room,which slopes
down breakdown for about 25 feet at a 40