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| River passage with Amy Skowronski (close), Ed Villareal (middle), and Shawn Hogbin (far). August 2016 |
Bluff River Cave is one of the many caves located in Little Coon Valley. It is a horizontal cave with about a mile of large river passage. The entrance is at the base of a bluff in an infeeder to Little Coon Creek. In the summer a cascade of cold air cave be felt as far as the creek. Immeditealy in the entrance is the Valley of Goo, a large passage filled with very slick mud banks and terminating in a large flowstone haystack formation.
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The Valley of Goo with entrance light spilling in the far left.
(l-r) Amy Skowronski, Ed Villareal, and Deirdre Conroy. |
From here the cave continues as a large river trunk with a mostly flat floor. Only in one spot does one have to cut up and over through a side passage (where the Register is located). A deep pool of water will get you wet up to your waist. The cave passes a large flowstone formation (Echoes of Endor) and ends in a large breakdown room with a distinct looking column (the Monolith).
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Deirdre Conroy at the Echoes of Endor
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| Amy Skowronski at the Echoes of Endor. |
