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never heard of this...what is it? a big cave where all the dope smokers hang out?

 

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naw, that sounds like the normal climber's checkin cave at t-line - the recent addition of the camera has kinda altered the chill factor though :(

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The Snow Dragon Glacier Cave System is (currently) 7,167 feet long and 958 feet deep and consists of three caves that intersect (Snow Dragon, Frozen Minotaur, and Pure Imagination) complete with waterfalls and a near-vertical moulin near the top of one of them. The caving expeditions over the last two years were featured in the February 2013 NSS News (National Speleological Society). There is another expedition to the cave next week!

 

Here's a link to some maps of the system, thanks to Google: Snow Dragon System

 

And photos: Snow Dragon Photos (thanks again, Google!)

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I remember finding a hole that appeared to go way down under Sandy Glacier many years ago on a cold October hike from McNeil Point to Yokum Ridge. My feeling at the time was I really wanted to explore, but I also thought it would be a terrible place to die when something collapsed when the glacier moved. I didn't and still don't know enough about glaciers to know where and when it might be safe to go under one. From the pics in the links above some of the tunnels appear to be fairly stable, i.e. they don't show signs of annual shifting and cracking. On the other hand I can imagine that quite a bit of water might be flowing through on a late summer afternoon. I'm a long time caver/mapper from years back, but I don't have the expertise to determine when it's safe to explore this system. I want in if a group gets after this... I know one option is to join Oregon High Desert Grotto.

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