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Neffs Cave (Utah)
Neffs Cave (or Neffs Canyon Cave) is a cave in Neffs Canyon on the north side of Mount Olympus, Utah, in the United States. It is one of the deepest caves in the United States but is seldom entered despite its depth and its proximity to Salt Lake City, Utah. The United States Forest Service has closed the cave to the public for many years due to safety hazards.
==Discovery and Exploration==
Neffs Cave was discovered in 1949 by two teenage brothers, John and Jamie Lyon , who were hiking in Neffs Canyon. 〔Lyon, John. "Neffs Cave." (Personal History, Salt Lake City Utah, in possession of the editor) Chapters 2-4. 〕 They returned to the )cave several times to explore its depths but lacked the proper equipment to reach the bottom. In one of their last visits, John Lyon and a group of friends became trapped at the bottom of a steep slope of crumbly shale and had to be extracted by a rescue party, headed by his brother Jamie Lyon.〔(Neffs Cave: America's Deepest Cave )〕 〔 Buzzetti,John. "S.L. Youths Rescued from Cave." Salt Lake Telegram, 23 March, 1950: 1-2. On-line. 〕
After the rescue, word about the cave began to spread. A party of inexperienced explorers reported that they went an estimated 2000 feet (660 meters) into the cave and encountered a sheer drop of over 100 feet (30 meters) that prevented their further exploration. They wrote to the Wasatch National Forest staff, "Our advice is, Keep Out." Subsequently, in 1951 a team under the direction of the National Park Service explored the cave for several hours and reported that the cave had no scenic value and was too dangerous to be a National Park Service attraction.
In 1952 the Salt Lake Grotto of the National Speleological Society was established, and several weeks later the grotto's members obtained permission from the National Forest Service to explore the cave. They spent nearly eleven hours in the cave but had not reached the end of the main passage before they had to turn back. Teams from the grotto returned in 1953 and 1956, and in the last visit they succeeded in reaching the bottom of the main passage. They calculated a vertical depth of 1186 feet (361 meters), which was later revised to the present figure of 1163 feet (354 meters). Neffs Cave is the 13th deepest cave discovered in the United States.〔http://www.caverbob.com/usadeep.htm〕
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