Road Noise Cave: An accidental discovery

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ROAD NOISE CAVE: AN ACCIDENTAL DISCOVER
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So, about five

On May 19, 1996, after an unsuccessful cave hunt in Warren County with John
Being in no hurry,

to tour 200 foot long

Fred Hutchison, Jim Smith, and Gerald Moni, we all headed home,
I decided to at least get underground by touring a roadside cave.
ped - t

miles south of Spencer on Tennessee Highway 30, I stopp
After I got out of it I ridgewalked the Hartselie outcrop
I explored about

VB 178, Steam Hole.
Within two bundred feet I found a second cave.
Lrg Within sight of the

toward the south
0 feet of passage, of which at least 120 feet were virgin,
entrance were two parallel pits, about twenty to thirty feet deep, but it was Late

o check the pits. The one
the one closest to

and I had no rope,
I returned alone on Friday afternoon, June 7
nd bli However,

furthest from the entrance was 24 feet deep and blind
the entrance taped 25 to 32 feet deep and after a ten foot crawl ied to a second pit
blind. But at least it

The bottom 33 feet were narrow and it too was blind
Later, after checking the

is 400 feet long

of 116 feet.
was mudfree and there was a ten by fifteen foot side dome.
TCS printout and consulting Gerald Moni, I was convinced this cave was "new" and I
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named it for the sound of the traffic on Highway 30

and 155 feet deep.
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