HPP Cave

[Nate SC]

I also have a "cave" on my place too. The mouth is apprx 50'X 50'. It's absolutely amazing, you walk thru the brush and make this jog right and bammmm there it is. This massive opening apears out of nowhere. I sat at the rim and looked down into the "dragons mouth" and contimplated my mission. I could feel this very powerfull energy coming from the "cave". It wasn't a bad feeling but a feeling that something absolutey giant hapened here once. Going into the "cave" it takes a steep incline and then makes it's way rather easily to the "cave" floor. The incline is basically a giant rock pile with awesome red and grey lava chunks. You can go right or left but I have only gone right. My neighbor told me that before I bought the place he walked in the cave for more than four hours and didn't come to an end. Once you clear the cave mouth area the floor smooths out almost flat and it looks like a black river of rock with all the folds of a wet stream frozen in time. When you look to the ceiling of the "cave" you can see choclate colored "drips" of stone that form millions of sharp spikes like a medievil torture bed . Sheets of these "spikes" have fallen from the ceiling and lay on the ground that you can pick up and examine more closely. There are also stalagtites & stalagmites forming as well. Pure white towers are coming up from the floor like a unicorns horn. The path took a jog right apprx 750ft into the cave and I shut my Maglite off and I looked left, then I looked right, and you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. I realized I had only a few "glow sticks" and no back-up flash lite so I decided against traveling further. I have the rest of my life to explore that "cave" but you have to be safe at all times when operating in evirons like that. Pools of water can collect and become traps. You can roll an ankle on loose debris or worse. The ceiling had all kinds of small maybe 2X2 holes that on the "surface" you could fall into, so I can see how a person could fall into one.
I had also "heard" of a "cave" close to the new "quickie dickie mart" in Orchidland that had some sort of steel vault constructed in it. They found it when they were bulldozing and I guess it was locked shut. When they got it open, it was stacked floor to ceiling with skeletons. The story goes that there was a plague that killed these people and they were sealed in this vault. creepy
Anyways, I have pictures too if you wanna see just let me know. I was thinking of doing tours of my place too but I need to know whats-what and not be some crack pot monkey with a headband flash lite leading people to their peril.
Nate
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House of the Dragon