Scroll Canyon Cave, Beaver Bay Cave, Dogwood Cave, and Helium Cave - Mt. St. Helens - November 2004

Main > Spelunking > 2004-11 Beaver Bay-Dogwood-Helium Caves

up one level

It was the day after Thanksgiving. The ladies were headed to town to fight the crowds, so we thought it would be a good day for us to go caving. We found several new caves and had a great time.

Cavers:
Charlie, David, Matthew, Suzanne, Elizabeth, and Michael Farnell

Caves:
Scroll Canyon Cave
Beaver Bay Cave
Un-Named Erosional Cave
Dogwood Cave (Taffy Cave)
Helium Cave

A bat in Scroll Canyon Cave. We should get out of here before we disturb him.
Looking around in Scroll Canyon Cave.
Charlie looking at the scroll in Scroll Canyon Cave.
David in Scroll Canyon Cave.
Looking around in Scroll Canyon Cave.
A horizontal tree cast between the canyon and a crack in the lava.
Another view of the horizontal tree cast between the canyon and a crack in the lava.
Elizabeth climbing down the crack to the horizontal tree cast.
Anyone know what kind of plant this is?
Cave cricket?? Beaver Bay Cave.
Lava roses in Beaver Bay Cave.
Suzanne squeezing through a side passage in Beaver Bay Cave.
Lots of crawling - Beaver Bay Cave.
A lonesome lava drip in Beaver Bay Cave.
Interesting ceiling in Beaver Bay Cave.
Minerals in Beaver Bay Cave.
Does this remind you of Little Red River Cave? Well it's not - this is Beaver Bay Cave!
Scroll in Beaver Bay Cave.
Roots in Beaver Bay Cave.
Interesting roots and mold in Beaver Bay Cave.
Rimstone dams in Beaver Bay Cave.
A lonesome stalagmite in Beaver Bay Cave.
David exiting Beaver Bay Cave. Whew, it's nice to sand up again.
Rimstone dams in a new, un-named erosional cave.

A lake in the new, un-named erosional cave.
Another view of the lake in a new, un-named erosional cave. We were unable to follow the main passage at this point because the lake complete filled it, but we did find a crawl off to the side around the lake.
The lake from the other side - New, un-named erosional cave.
Suzanne crawling around the lake.
Lots of boulders in this erosional cave. You wouldn't want to be in here when a flood came through.
The exit of the erosional cave at the canyons edge.
Lunch time.
A couple of cool mushrooms.
Another new erosional cave. This picture is of a formations that I don't understand. It's like a tree made out of lava or something. Maybe the lava burned a root out of the ground, filled the hole, and then water wash away the dirt from around it?
Same erosional cave.
Dogwood Cave - Mold and water droplets.
Dogwood Cave - Close up of mold and water droplets.
Dogwood Cave - Taffy formations.
Dogwood Cave - Experimenting with my new slave flash.
Dogwood Cave - Lava roses.
Dogwood Cave - Knife blade formation.
Dogwood Cave - Another view of the knife blade formation.
Dogwood Cave - Mineral formations.
Dogwood Cave - Impressive rimstone dam formations behind the knife blade.
Dogwood Cave - Impressive rimstone dam formations behind the knife blade.
Dogwood Cave - Impressive rimstone dam formations behind the knife blade.
More cool mushrooms.


Helium Cave cap. Elizabeth found this cave while we were scouting around.
Another small cave by Helium.
Helium Cave.
Helium Cave.
Helium Cave.
Helium Cave.
Another cool mushroom. We also scouted around up the hill from here and found a few more big caves. Two of them were closed for the winter and it was late in the day so we didn't attempt to explore them. That will have to wait until next year. It was a great day.

It was the day after Thanksgiving. The ladies were headed to town to fight the crowds, so we thought it would be a good day for us to go caving. We found several new caves and had a great time.

Cavers:
Charlie, David, Matthew, Suzanne, Elizabeth, and Michael Farnell

Caves:
Scroll Canyon Cave
Beaver Bay Cave
Un-Named Erosional Cave
Dogwood Cave (Taffy Cave)
Helium Cave

up one level