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2007 NSS Convention Guidebook 434 Jon Sherron, Ron Burns, and Eric Morris in Erics <strong>River</strong> Cave. Photo by Dave Black. Todd Webb admiring a waterfall in Clicks Cave. Photo by Chris Schotter.
John Harris in Binkleys Cave’s Helictite Utopia. Photo by Ty Spatta. Color Photography Ty Spatta in Devils Graveyard. Photo by Mark Sparks. Greg McNamara, Joe Oliphant, and Ron Adams in Easter Pit Cave. Photo by Dave Black. 435
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Back Underground in Indiana A Guide
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Contents Welcome from the NSS Presi
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Welcome from the NSS President Welc
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Welcome from the Governor of Indian
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Color Photography Section We are mu
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Section I: The Harrison Crawford Ar
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The Convention Planning staff is pl
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The Harrison County Visitors’ Cen
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per day, which includes the right t
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A Short History of Early Crawford C
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Section II: Exploration 1
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Deep below the hills of Crawford Co
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Gypsum flowers and crusts. Beyond S
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top of Fools Dome began to take onl
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The Discovery and Exploration of th
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previous surface survey of the gulf
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The Survey Begins On Saturday, Janu
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through January as well as every we
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and another team went into the seco
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were surprised to learn that a tigh
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Other Exploration in the Lost River
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flood tube really played on our min
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efore splitting and ending in break
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Two Bit Pit Harrison County, Indian
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Two Bit Pit c l i m b - d o w n i s
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Two Bit Pit 4
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downstream passage is generally 6 t
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Trip #16 August 12, 1990 Greg McNam
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ing into established survey at the
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An Exploratory Trip to Gory Hole: J
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the right side. It was necessary to
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The Exploration of Harrison Spring
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guide line was no longer in the ent
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first that day and had already gone
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along his dive buddy, Ralph, for hi
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visibility out was normal, about 3
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Section III: Geology and Cave Scien
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Regional and Karst Geology of the O
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plains, swallowholes, storm water r
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Regional Physiography and Stratigra
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closely this apparent relationship
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Regional Physiography and Stratigra
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Figure 6. Geologic map of south-cen
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margin of the Mitchell Plain, chara
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cavern development. Somewhat more t
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Geomorphic History of the Mitchell
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idge summits in the Crawford Upland
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to produce such continuous surfaces
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Stratigraphy and Lithology of the O
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upward sequence. [This model shows
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County (Gray, Jenkins, and Weidman,
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He then casually and without explan
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outcrop is an overlooked and deserv
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Geology Field Trip Figure 13. Stop
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This five-stage model may have impl
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Figure 16. The Tower Quarry highwal
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River. Note that the valley is fill
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Smith and Tim Grisson of Ohio Caver
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of the Mitchell Plain were dissolve
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Geology Field Trip Figure 21. Trave
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Geology Field Trip Figure 22. Harri
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The Battle of Corydon, Indiana’s
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of rocks above the Ste. Genevieve i
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New Albany Shale Gas Wells: A natur
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Geology Field Trip Figure 29. Inter
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Preglacial Regional Drainage and Gl
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Stop 5: The Falls of the Ohio vicin
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Figure 35. Historic map of the Fall
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After experiencing a boat trip down
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Geology Field Trip Figure 36. Geolo
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that time. Locally, they are rarely
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Geology Field Trip Figure 38. U.S.
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depth of 12 feet. This became known
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Lost River Field Trip Figure 40. Ma
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Lost River Field Trip Figure 42 Phy
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Lost River Field Trip Figure 44. Co
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to Lick Creek to the southeast as p
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Lost River Field Trip Figure 46. To
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Figure 48A though D. Clyde Malott
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State Road 37 Corridor to Wesley Ch
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then proceed down hill to the north
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and is located 0.5 miles north. The
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Figure 54. A view of the rise pool
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Lost River Field Trip Figure 56. Ge
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Travel from Wesley Chapel Gulf to O
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miles (Bassett, 1976 and 2000) to t
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Crawford Upland morphology, and the
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historians and eyewitness accounts.
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Ash, Donald W., 1985: Geomorphology
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pany the geological map of the stat
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Mammoth Cave Region, Kentucky, and
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Little brown bat. The endangered In
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under flat stones or sticks. Its we
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Lewis, Julian J.; R. Burns; and S.L
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cave passages ranging in altitude f
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The Geology of Wyandotte Cave Monum
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The Geology of Wyandotte Cave Hall
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Cave fine-grained sediments were pr
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Projected Passage Profiles for the
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The History and Status of Karst Ver
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Karst Vertebrate Paleobiology in In
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Karst Vertebrate Paleobiology in In
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Leidy’s peccary (Platygonus vetus
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Figure 8. Skull of the dire wolf, C
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Figure 11. The Bat Room of Megenity
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Mammalian Faunas during the Last De
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cene Paleoecology and Archaeology o
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Harrison was by far the largest spr
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drainage is north to Blue River. Th
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It may also be noted that Harrison
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Section IV: Indiana’s Cave Organi
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The Indiana Karst Conservancy, Inc.
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esource in cave and karst conservat
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Indiana Karst Conservancy daylight
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Indiana Karst Conservancy Heading f
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property. Meanwhile, Randy Jackson
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Number of Caves 1,000 Feet or Longe
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27. Warren 74 28. Miami 63 29. Foun
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Section V: History 235
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Lewis D. Lamon: Indiana’s Grand O
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will find a way in. Lewie’s softs
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George Jackson getting a drink at C
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Falls at the age of six, it was par
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weekends. Sometimes I would bring a
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Caves, Cave Rescue, and the Nationa
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lost or overdues or minor injuries:
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modular NCRC trainings have occurre
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A History of Indiana Caving We do k
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22 miles long. The addition of the
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Pace, Fort, Reeves, Sollman, Powell
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He formed a short-lived partnership
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manufactured history of Wyandotte C
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Section VI: Conservation 263
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The Richard Blenz Nature Conservanc
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The Richard Blenz Nature Conservanc
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pipe. Several dig trips subsequentl
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Lasiurus cinereus (horary bat), fem
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Myotis septentrionalis (northern my
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Cavers have already contributed lar
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ugs. • Pick up litter (use good j
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Section VII: Miscellaneous 27
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Bluespring Caverns “Myst’ry Riv
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Marengo Cave, located on the edge o
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of the cave, the scout program was
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avid spelunkers and loved the cave.
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Indiana Show Caves hire Richard L.
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Section VIII: Cave Descriptions 2 1
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Cave Maps and Descriptions The foll
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een made but a voice connection sho
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intersection. The left-hand passage
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enters from a too-low passage but a
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This pit is located on a heavily wo
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Main Passage in Erics River Cave. P
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drive road. There is a pull off on
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in 50 feet. This cave has pits and
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crawling, and very little belly cra
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Not to be confused with Harrison Co
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The Old Town Spring Entrance to Mar
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placed about 150 feet inside the en
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decorated grotto. In the south end
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Robinson Ladder Cave is an Indiana
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dates. Also, except for the entranc
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Saltpeter Cave Crawford County Cave
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This cave is located along the base
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of Texas Creek and is about half a
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water is from B-B Hole, a nearby ri
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Harrison County Caves 1915 Cave was
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meandering, narrow canyon. This pas
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was rigged in 1979 by Tom Fritsch a
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Jamie Winner at Big Mouth Spring Ca
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drop. At the bottom of this drop is
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Dave Stahl at the top of the first
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Nick Smith has arranged access to t
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he returned to remove this ledge, s
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on the left side of the main passag
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degree angle. At the bottom of the
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Ryan Moran climbing Gary Pit. Photo
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This cave is presently the main cav
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You can get to the pit in two diffe
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Willie Hunt at the entrance to Jays
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T he entrance to King Leo Cave is a
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The 40-foot-tall canyon. Photo by E
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way, flowstone and some gypsum flak
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Manhole Cave, Corydon West 7.5-minu
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CIG Cave Capers Guidebook: 1984, 19
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the 56-foot drop known as The Cathe
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Sharon McConnell in Rocky Hollow Ho
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Seitz Pit, also known as Fuzzys Pit
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Harrison County Caves 375
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with the sandy crawlways and contai
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it opens into Tourist Avenue. The l
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and connects back to the main strea
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Page 389 and 390: The Donaldson Cave entrance in 1938
Page 391 and 392: Dave Stahl in the lower level of Bu
Page 393 and 394: Dave Everton beginning the rappel i
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Page 397 and 398: Roberts Cave was opened in 2001 by
Page 399 and 400: Mike Kennedy at the South Y in Sull
Page 401 and 402: Lawrence County Caves Sullivan Cave
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Page 405 and 406: Wayne Cave is the property of the I
Page 407 and 408: The natural bridge at Camp Two. Pho
Page 409 and 410: Dillon Cave is located in the Hoosi
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Page 413 and 414: Janie Atz preparing to cross the li
Page 415 and 416: Tom Duselis looking at cannonballs
Page 417 and 418: Owen County Caves 413
Page 419 and 420: Washington County Caves Cave River
Page 421 and 422: and continues as such to the Flowst
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Page 435 and 436: Bill Baus in the Formation Room in
Page 437: A cannonball in the Boone-Cannonbal
Page 441 and 442: Aaron Atz in CHUG Hall in Teds Dig.
Page 443 and 444: Cavers in the Wayne Cave crawlway.
Page 445 and 446: Willie Hunt in Jewel Box Cave. Phot
Page 447 and 448: Nate Newkirk in Lower Wild Turkey C
Page 449 and 450: Nate Newkirk in Redmond Cave. Photo
Page 451 and 452: A Abram, Jerry 400 Abram, Marie 400
Page 453 and 454: Cooper, James Fenimore 260 Cope, E.
Page 455 and 456: Elliot Stahl with the warning sign
Page 457 and 458: Hodges, Frank 393 Holiday World The
Page 459 and 460: McGowan, Dave 256 McGrain, Preston
Page 461 and 462: P.B.R. Plunge 369 Packard’s groun
Page 463 and 464: Spaulding, Greg 254, 255, 365 spide
Page 465 and 466: Dave Stahl ascending Fuzzy Hole. Ph
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