This cave has 2300 feet of passageways and was opened in 1974 by our guide, Art Gahimer. Every time you come into a cave you'll see something different. That's one of the lures about going caving, It's an endless fascination. For thousands of years these passageways stood dark and silent, broken now only by intruders from above. Our lights pierce what was an eternal darkness to reveal a bat sleeping on the cavern roof and formations that were literally ages in the making as Gahimer explains.
Carbonic acid filters down through the cracks and dissolves the limestone.
It dries out, the water evaporates, the calcium carbonate crystallizes on the formations that you see right here. We are about a hundred feet below the surface and what is especially disheartening to those who treasure these sculptures is the vandalism that you see in almost every cave you visit. And others, for reasons known only to themselves, leave behind 20th century trash, a sacrilege to the serious spelunker. This is a quiet place created over the millennia drop by endless drop. It is another world disturbed only by those who descend for a moment.