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 Ape Cave: # 631-01 A, B, C, D

 Arch Cave: A small cave.

 Ash Cast cave: A very cool complex cave with neat tree mold features. 611-89

 Barney's cave: A short mostly walking cave with some nice flow features.

 Bat Cave: Close for bats in winter. A very nice cave with levels and passages.

 Bill's Short Cut Cave: AKA Cougar: A short nice little cave with a neat side passage. Can see through tight unpassable squeeze into "Joe's cave."617 feet of passage.

 Beaver Cave: Minor vertical into large passage with very large ledges.

  Beaver Bay cave:

 Becky's Cave: Name By Jim Nieland after forest service worker.120feet of tight crawl.

  Blue Ribbon cave: 631-08A, B. About 500 feet of crawl.

  Breakdown Cave: Very large sink but short on passage. Closed winter for bats.

  Charcoal Springs: Vertical drop through tree mold into a nice cave under lava flow. 420 feet of passage.

 Christmas Canyon Cave:

 Column Cave. 631-10: Short little cave by Dollar-and-a-Dime cave with nice column.

 Cougar Cave: AKA Bill's Short Cut Cave

 Crater Root Cave: Big tree root and this mostly crawly cave with passages in every direction. 304 feet of passage.

 Dogwood Cave:Very nice easy walking cave with some nice features. 613 feet of passage.

 Dollar and a Dime Cave. 631-11 A, B: A large walking cave with some nice mineral formations, lava fall and more. 2100 feet of passage.

  Double Arch cave: 172 feet of passage.

 Double Tree Mold: A very decorated tree mold. 121 feet of passages.

 Duck Cave. 299 feet of crawly cave. 

 Duckwalk Cave. 631-13. Has not been re-found to tag it. 

 Elk Creek Pit. 631-14 

 Flow Cave. Very Nice red flow features and railroad track. 631-15 A, B 825 Feet of passage. 

  Fortress cave: Neat little cave by crater. 119 feet of passage.

  Green mountain cave: AKA Thermal Cave.

 Gremlin Cave. 631-16 A, B: Super nice cave. Two entrance, one is a vertical drop. Has formation that looks like gremlin. 2222 feet of passages. About half is nice walking and the rest is crawl.

 Helium Cave. 631-17 A, B

 House Rock Pits. 631-18 

 Hunter's Cave. 631-19

 Joan cave: 

 Joe's Cave: name after the late Joe Hays. Connects with Cougar cave by touch only.

 Kim's Cave: Name by Jim Nieland. Found by Kim Luper.  Other names: Two Rocks, Mine Field, Luper's cave.

 Lake cave: A nice all walking cave. Some breakdown and two climb downs. Has cool side red passage and a Lake at end sometimes. 4597 feet of passages.

 Lava Springs. 631-20. 135 feet.

  Limbo cave: 190 feet. 

  Little Red River Cave: A gated cave with cool lava falls and a little red river and lake at end. 3865 feet.

  Little People's Cave: This cave starts off big with nice upper levels. 1344 feet of passages.

 Little People's Annex.

 Low Cave. lost cave, unfound at this time.

 Manhole Cave. Short cave near Gremlin cave. 68 feet.

  Manzanita cave: Small crawly cave. Part if the Crater Root System.

  Margin cave: not re found at this time. near lava edge.

  Marty's cave:  246 feet of crawly passage. Not sure what cave this is in an area of many crawly caves.

  Mine Vaple:

  Mosquito Cave: not found at this time. May 2010.

 Moss Cave: small cave with mossy entrance.

 Pillars of Hercules Cave: Many pillars in this cave. Cave is closed and gated. 2785 feet.

 Prince Albert Cave: One of the best railroad track formations at Mount Saint Helens. 2100 feet.

 Ole's cave: 5800 feet of passage.

  Quarter cave:300 feet.

  Perserverance: If you can get pass the long crawl you will come to a very nice complex cave with skylights and little formations. 1596 of passage.

  Red Pencil cave:

  Red Rock: Just a little hole with red lava near Lake cave.

  Red Stain cave. Powerline area. not found.

 Rock Pile cave. By Large rock pile. 

 Powerline Cave: Closed for bats.

 Railroad Tracks: A neat short cave with nice railroad track features.

  Salal cave: A neat cave with lots of tree mold columns. Many attempts to find this cave north of Beaver cave. Hides someplace in the Salal bushes. So named by Jim Neiland. 

 Sand Cave: This cave is now buried by sand from Mount Saint Helens, sometime after 2006. Was a nice little cave that had ice formations in it.

  Scott's Cave: A complex cave system with lot of neat features and entrances. Lots of crawly.

 Scroll Canyon Cave: A serious of small caves with some nice lava scrolls. 

 Shortstop cave. unfound at this time. 

 Spider Cave:

  Spider Den cave: Small little cave was 100's of spiders in it when we mapped it. Upper Ape cave.

 Surprise Cave: 230 feet.

 Thermal cave. AKA as Green Mountain cave. Cave # 631-41

 Trail Cave. On Ape cave trail. Cave # 631-42. Tag has been taken. 

 Twenty-Four Cave: Small cave with one big passage with neat flow features.

 

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