Pyeatt Cave

Pyeatt Cave

Alan Cressler, Brandon Stephens, Jeff Moore, Chris Dunn, Tom Gilleland

We met everyone at Fort Huachuca, an army base. We got permits for the caves they knew about and drove up to Pyeatt Cave. We hiked 200’ to the fenced-in, video-monitored entrance. The fence and surveillance were necessary to keep the army men from messing up the cave. We walked down into the entrance and took the passage to the right. After a short crawly slope we emerged into a large decorated room. I then determined that this was going to be a hot trip. Jeff offered to put my shirt in his pack. I did the rest of the cave shirtless. We were on a balcony. Ahead, the floor dropped down. The room contained a tall, narrow shield and a large Carlsbad-like, totem-pole stalagmite. We went through a tight vagina shaped hole in the formation wall avoiding a 40’ drop off to the left as we emerged into another room. We crawled along a ledge on the right hand wall and looked down to a large stalagmite and across the room to a shield. Then we did a short climb down into the room. We climbed and walked over large chunks of breakdown seeing many more pretty formations. We paused at a wide room with a signature from the 1800s. We then climbed down a slope into a room with a 40’ deep narrow crack / pit. We headed back out a slightly different route and paused to take a couple pictures in some of the larger, more ornate rooms. My 2cd firefly slave was giving us problems so we didn’t get a good picture of the entrance room. We hiked back out and bumper hopped to the next cave. To Manila Mine

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