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and continues as such
to the Flowstone
Room, where
flowstone runs down
the 30-foot-high wall
from a crevice above.
Beyond this room,
the passage once again
becomes narrow and
about 8 feet high. At
several places there
is enough flowstone
to almost choke the
passage or reduce it to
a crawlway. The water
depth varies from a
few inches to 3 feet,
and there are a couple
of small upper side
passages containing formations. Near the back
of the cave, 630 feet from the entrance, the
stream passage bends to the west and runs for
some 50 feet to where a flowstone constriction
leaves a space too small to squeeze through.
The entrance to this cave is a pit about 20
feet deep in a small, shallow sinkhole
on the northwest side of the a ridge in the
northwest corner of Cave River Valley.
A rope is recommended in entering the
pit, but one can climb the walls without a rope
because of a narrow ledge about halfway down
the pit. At the bottom of the pit, the explorer
must descend over broken rock and mud into a
two-way passage. The passage to the left of the
entrance is short, not over 150 feet long, and
consists of two small rooms connected by a very
tight crawlway. Both rooms contain beautiful
speleothems, mostly stalactites and stalagmites,
that have been vandalized.
The passage extending to the right of the
entrance pit, downstream, is the longer part
Washington County Caves
Shavon Peacock in Flowstone Cave. Photo by Andrew Peacock.
Frozen Waterfall Cave
Looking ahead, there is much flowstone and
some formations in a passage 3 feet high and
5 feet wide. It is likely that further upstream in
the cave more impassable constrictions due to
flowstone would be encountered.
By Carroll Ritter
Jim Crail in Frozen Waterfall. Photo by Dave Black.
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