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Chestnut Ridge Blowing Cave, later known as Bobcat Cave, proved to be the first entrance into the large Chestnut Ridge Cave System. The discovery, however, required five years of patient and extremely difficult exploration to conquer the half-mile entrance series into the big cave that awaited below. A detailed account is presented of the obstacle-by-obstacle advance into what would become one of Virginia’s longest cave systems.
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Clemmer, G. (2015). The Discovery and Initial Exploration of the Chestnut Ridge Cave System. In: White, W. (eds) The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14391-0_5
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