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| Randy Paylor in the formation room in Snake Canyon cave, Nevada. |
After Goshute cave we headed to Ely for some food and than headed out to the range where Snake Canyon cave is located.
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| James, April and Tim Gocha hanging out as the sun goes down near Snake Canyon Cave, Nevada. PHOTO BY: JUSTIN BAILEY |
Snake Canyon is more remote than Goshute and the roads were a bit rough for the cars to gain access to the trailhead so we camped along the way up the road.
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| Camping in the desert near Snake Canyon Cave, Nevada. PHOTO BY: JUSTIN BAILEY |
The following day we got to the trailhead and we also met up with Doug from the forest service. Doug was fantastic and helpful with knowledge about this cave.
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| James in the formation room in Snake Canyon cave, Nevada. |
Snake Canyon cave is at an elevation of around 9000ft. and took over an hour to hike up to the entrance. The entrance was
a a small crawl into a room that opened up into a series of faulted passages that have appeared to have moved over time.
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| Randy with the full spectrum of the flow stone drapery in Snake Canyon Cave, Nevada. |
The rooms were a series of wet and muddy breakdown piles with a few formations along the way.
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| Tim Gocha checking out a passages with bones in Snake Canyon Cave, Nevada. PHOTO BY: JUSTIN BAILEY |
We made it to the back of the cave where there was a 15ft climb that had a few penalty points for falling so we secured a hand line for safety.
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| Snake Canyon cave. |
Once we climbed into the final room we noticed the beautiful formations and the impressive flowstone drapery on the wall.
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| Formation room with randy in Snake Canyon cave, Nevada. |
This flowstone must have been around 25-35ft high and around 15-20 in length.
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| Formation room with Randy in Snake Canyon cave, Nevada. |
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| beautiful Nevada hills. |
The cave was around 1000ft in length so it was a bit shorter than Goshute cave but it was very interesting and different from a lot of other caves in the area.
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| Randy coming out of the entrance of Snake Canyon cave, Nevada. |
Tim and Doug headed down into a side passage and found some bones that they are going to discuss more about with each other.
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| Just outside of Snake canyon Cave, Nevada. |
What a fantastic weekend and I am glad everyone got a chance to get out and go caving. I hope that the momentum continues to inspire more people to get outside so they can get inside these beautiful caves.
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| Tim Gocha stretching out at the entrance of Snake Canyon Cave, Nevada. |
