Never made it there… I’ll have to take the granddaughters there next time we visit.
California will soon make that off limits. Too dangerous and scary.
Is it safe to go down there? Apart from natural dangers, might those caves also attract druggies, gangstas, and other lowlifes?
“Pluto’s Cave is a partially collapsed lava tube in the Klamath National Forest.”
Definitely sounds worth a visit!
Humanity may build shelters in Lunar and Martian lava tubes in the not too distant future.
If we make it that long....
Whoa…
Watch out for the Lumarians. They live in there. Some hippy saw them and told me about it when I was having lunch in Weed.
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Tortured my wife and daughter going down there. They hated it. I loved it. Especially the ceremony roster painted on the wall from 100+ years ago. NOT in a friendly neighborhood if those tall green mesh fences mean anything.
My Boy Scout troop camped out in Cumberland Caverns in Tennessee. That was a fun trip.
Been to Subway Cave, near Mt. Lassen, more than once.
Also wandered through a couple of lava tube ice caves, in Lava Beds Nat Mon.
Never heard of this cave.
60+ years ago that whole area was damned easy to get lost in. Forest service maps showed the roads, but didn’t number most of them; and the ones they did number, typically didn’t have corresponding number-signs posted on them.
I’ve been caving a few times in my youth. And, not in the commercial, guided-tour caves either. However, this is one of those mysteries that should remain just that.
No way in heck would I attempt a cave such as this one!