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Lake Cave - stairwell
USA

Lake Cave is a lava tube in Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington.  It is the next major cave below the more famous Ape Cave & reaches a total length of about 4,095 feet.  Like Ape Cave, it has a collapse pit with an upper tube that goes in about 100' before there is a signifant drop to a lower level as seen in this scene, to which this affixed stairwell (probably placed in the 1970s) was installed.  The cave is not nearly as well-known as Ape Cave & the first third of the distance involves some scrambling & crawling through some large breakdown boulders.  In fact it seems like the cave doesn't go that far until you continue on & it opens up into a lovely lava tube with no breakdown lasting to the very end where it gets plugged with sand.  The reason it is called Lake Cave is because during an intense rainy season the back of the cave can fill up with water, taking awhile to drain itself.  During my visit it was raining hard outside & this location was full of dripping water from the ceiling, yet it would still require a significant wet season for the end (which was plugged up with drained sand) to create a sizable lake.  Don't expect to not get wet in this cave!  The first 1/3 of the cave there are also excellent actinomycete bacteria mats which glisten a golden color when covered in water droplets.

Copyright: William L
Type: Spherical
Resolution: 20756x10378
Taken: 18/09/2021
Uploaded: 24/09/2021
Published: 24/09/2021
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Tags: lake cave; washington; lava tube; cavern; stairwell; flow lines; cave basalt; lower; tunnel; mount saint helens; national volcanic monument; mount st. helens; actinomycete; bacteria; gold; hydrophobic
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