PINE HILL CAVE
October 27, 2015
Nathanael in Pine Hill cave, Kentucky |
sculpted canyon passage in Pine Hill Cave, Kentucky |
We entered the cave and headed towards the upstream passage that took us through a series of stoop walking passages, walking, and a little bit of crawling. We made it through to a canyon passage where the ceiling continued to get higher to a point where we found ourselves in a nice fluted passage of smooth cut rock. There were some waterfalls we had to climb over as well some water we went around until we got to the confluence where we could hear a waterfall or follow the trunk passage to another section of the cave. We followed the cave up till it started to get tight and turned around. There were not many formations but we did find some domes along the way and there were some dormant flow stone and flow stone columns that appeared to be super old.
We headed back and went upstream to a deep pool and a waterfall that we scaled around so we wouldn't get wet which was successful for us. That took us to another waterfall we climbed over that had some interesting chert balls in the walls which took us into a 100ft. dome.
Nathanael in Pine Hill Cave |
Nathanael in the Skylight Dome in Pine Hill cave, Kentucky |
This is a 125ft pit entrance to Pine Hill that was interesting to see and i grabbed a few photos of this room. We headed back and I pulled a mock scenario of an injured first time caver and walked Naomi and Daniel on what to do if that situation happened. It was a good learning lesson and was helpful to know how to handle situations when they arise.
Pine Hill cave, Kentucky |
Pine Hill cave, Kentucky |
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