Lost River - Karst Information Portal

This cave is presently the main cave in the
Orchard Ridge area. It is a complex cave
with 2.64 miles surveyed, plus an additional 1
mile explored. The cave is noted for its degree of
difficulty. There are numerous long, wet chert
crawls and only a couple of borehole passages.
The entrance pit is the most toured section of
the cave and the most liked by cavers who have
explored the rest of the cave.
The 8-foot-diameter entrance is located
1,000 feet east of King Leo Cave, on a heavily
wooded hillside, about three quarters of the
way up the ridge. A 120-foot rope is needed
to rig the 102-foot entrance pit. The drop is
almost entirely against a wall, ending at the
top of a 20-foot-high rubble slope. About 25
feet above the floor of the pit is a crawlway that
ends in a short distance at a small dome. At the
bottom of the talus slope that forms the floor,
Hells Hole
Harrison County Caves
By Dave Black
is a small blowing hole that was enlarged during
the summer of 1972 by Mike VanNote, Mark
Koselke, Loren Campbell, and George Cesnik.
This small hole leads to a stream crawl and the
major portion of the cave.
Upstream, is a 1,000-foot-long crawl, named
Satans Sewer, that reconnects to the eastern half
of the cave. A better way to get to this half of the
cave is to go downstream, which is a slightly larger
crawl, and take the next passage to the left. This
passage, A.S.S. Hall, is a muddy, wet hands-andknees
crawl that leads to Whooping Dome in
about 100 feet. Whooping Dome is 60 feet tall.
Beyond this dome, the passage is mostly walking
for several hundred feet with one side passage,
called Disgusting Crawl, on the right. This crawl
is 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide with a foot of pooled
water. Past this side passage is more walking passage
until the Junction Room is reached. This is a small
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