At the southern end of the Greenbrier Valley,
in Greenbrier and Monroe Counties, West Virginia,
lies one of the regions greatist natural wonders,
For almost
all of the caves history, no human had ever seen or knew of it's magnificent
passages... Then, in 1984, after years of searching, cavers dug into the cave
and began exploring and mapping a network of many miles of large "virgin"
cave passages.
(L. to R.) Michael Dore, Pat Dore and
Michael Christie at the original entrance dig to Scott Hollow Cave, 1984
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Last updated 8/25/06
The biggest discovery
was Mystic River,the main stream passage of Scott Hollow Cave. The night five
cavers walked into Mystic's large black voids for the first time was a momentous
event. Scott Hollow Cave changed from a nice sized local cave to a large,
complex cave system draining a fourteen square mile area and potentially much
more.
Today,
after twenty-two years of exploration, cavers have mapped a network of twenty
eight miles of West Virginias finest cave passages. Exploration is on-going
and there is good potential for finding many more miles of fantastic cave. Many
ongoing studies are trying to learn even more about Scott Hollow Cave including
geological, geophysical, hydrologic, paleontological, mathmatical and depositional.
The Scott Hollow Project, a project of the National Speleological Society (NSS)
coordinates regular exploration, mapping and scientific study trips into the
cave.
