Cass Cave
| Cass Cave | |
|---|---|
 The Big Room | |
| Location | Pocahontas County,West Virginia,United States |
| Lighting | None |
| Visitors | Closed to the public |
Cass Caveis a cave located inCass, West Virginia,[1]onCheat Mountain.One of the rooms in the cave (the "Big Room" ) is 800 ft (240 m) long, 180 ft (55 m) high and 75 ft (23 m) wide.[2]Cass Cave has the highestsubterranean waterfallinWest VirginiaandVirginia,Lacy Suicide Falls, with a height of 139 ft (42 m). The waterfall was misnamed, as while a suicide did occur in the cave, it was at a small drop near the entrance. The cave is not open to the general public.[3]
The June 1964 Issue ofNational Geographicfeatured a two-page fold-out color photograph by Huntley Ingalls of a caver climbing a wire ladder adjacent to the waterfall.[4]The photo was illuminated by a series of #2 Press photo flashbulbs laid over an aluminum foil reflector spread on the slope below.
Cave rescues and deaths
[edit]On March 16, 1968, eight people were trapped and later rescued in the cave.[5][6]In 1976, an amateur caver was trapped in the cave for more than 15 hours, falling 40 feet to the cave floor after an equipment malfunction.[7] In 1977, a climber was trapped in the waterfall and died of hypothermia due to being drenched by falling water.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Bulletin of the National Speleological Society.National Speleological Society. 1966.
- ^John Hodel (30 Jun 1963)."Features of Cass Cave".Beckley Post-Herald.Beckley, West Virginia. p. 17.Retrieved24 November2016– via Newspapers.com.
- ^Kevin Adams (1 June 2002).Waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia: A Hiking and Photography Guide.Menasha Ridge Press. pp. 32–.ISBN978-0-89732-414-4.
- ^"WV Tourist Interest Is On Increase".Cumberland Evening Times.Cumberland, Maryland. 17 August 1964. p. 7.Retrieved24 November2016– via Newspapers.com.
- ^"ER-NCRC - Cave Rescue, March 16, 1968, Cass Cave, WV".Caves.org.1968. Archived fromthe originalon March 12, 2016.Retrieved2016-03-14.
- ^"Spelunker Rescued".The Raleigh Register.Beckley, West Virginia. 18 Mar 1968. p. 2.Retrieved24 November2016– via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Man rescued from cave".The News.Frederick, Maryland. 1 Sep 1976. p. 16.Retrieved24 November2016– via Newspapers.com.
- ^"Climbing Accident Is Fatal".The Times Recorder.Zanesville, Ohio. 31 Aug 1977. p. 2.Retrieved24 November2016– via Newspapers.com.
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