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2007 NSS Convention Guidebook
dig the passage opens into a flowstone dome.
Continuing in the stream crawl the passage
slowly enlarges to a height of 4 feet. At this
point the passage ends in breakdown due to
the passage intersecting the valley wall. On
the surface the end of the cave can be found
because there is a sinkhole and a spring that
blows cool air. A short dig could make this cave
Elliot Stahl examines formations in P.B.R. Plunge.
Photo by Dave Black.
This obscure entrance is located on a small
bench, high above Indian Creek. Along a
limestone outcrop is a huge slab of limestone
which nearly conceals the small entrance. The
entrance is a squeeze through tree roots into
a crawlway containing numerous flowstone
formations. Care should be taken to stay on
the narrow path through these formations. As
the passage turns into the hill, the formations
cease and the passage dimensions increase to
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Rocky Hollow Horror Hole
into a through trip. The water from the spring
flows on the surface only a few feet before it
sinks underground at the edge of Potato Run.
Reference: HCG Hog-Fest Guidebook, 1990,
D.Black
CIG Cave Capers Guidebook, 1990,
D.Black
By Dave Black
backbreaker size. This breakdown-floored,
dry, backbreaker passage ends in a couple of
hundred feet at two small pits. The right pit
is a 19-foot rope drop into a circular well. At
the top of the left pit is an unstable breakdown
slope named the Horror Hole which leads to a
12-foot-deep, free-climbable pit. The two pits
connect at the bottom by way of a tight, jagged
stream crawl with two sharp popcorn covered
natural bridges.