by jeffharris58 » Oct 18, 2016 3:39 pm
I have seen some comments about finding the Something Special Dome in the back of the cave. I assure you that it does exist - I have been there once when we mapped it. It is sort of hard to find and I am quoting from over 30 years ago. When I last visited this cave in 2010, I could not find the route and had to use the original plot to refresh my memory. There is a crawlway to the right that loops back under the passages at the end - they are small crawls and in the water and finally break out into the dome. Don't expect a huge waterfall - if it were that big, you wouldn't be in the cave (or you wouldn't get out). Supposedly someone climbed the dome several years ago, and I would appreciate hearing from anyone concerning this. Perhaps a second entrance could be located that leads to the top of this dome - it would be close to the ravine by the main road up the mountain. Another entrance leading to the dome at the end of Suicide Crawl would be useless, since this crawlway also floods in wet weather (and is only 14" high). There is a surface feature near here and it would be great to surface survey to it and add it to the map. Anyone with questions feel free to e-mail me. By the way, the cave is protected six months out of the year by its natural gate (flooding) but that did not stop a vandal from removing a very nice 2 inch diameter blastoid from the wall by the slope down into the Sometime Sump.