Hall city cave

[Eric S]

I'm not a caver but I do a lot of diving off the Northern California coast.
I heard of this board from somebody and though this would be a good place to start. Has anybody on this board heard of this place:

Hall City Cave.

A friend of mine just bought some property up in Trinity County, California, in a place called Hay Fork. He told me about a cave up in the area just out of Wildwood off hwy 36 called Hall City Cave.
From what he told me the cave is about a 0.3 mi hike up a hill and the entrance to the cave is at the base of a limestone shelf on the side of a mountain. The cave goes in about 200 yards, begins to slope down and ends at a pool of water. Local lore says that during the gold rush years a group of robbers threw a few bags of stolen gold into the water to hide it, but little did they know that the cave was quite deep and they had no way to recover it. Indian lore has it that the site was also used as an ancient indian burial and spiritual site.

About a year ago my friend told me that a group of exploration divers did a dive in that underwater cavern and never found any bags of gold or indian bones, but they never reached the bottom either. They reached their MOD at 270 feet and had to turn around.

If this place is everything they tell me it is then we have one hell of a fresh water cave dive right here in our back yard.
There are a lot of gold prospectors that move up to that area to actually make a living mining and dredging for gold. Many of them have utilized scuba gear or hookah to get down in the holes in the streams, but a dive like the Hall City Cave is way out of reach for anybody living up there. That takes a lot of special training and equipment.

Have any of you ever heard of this place or possibly know the team that did the exploration into Hall City Cave?

[Jordan]

First off, I hope you find a great dive hole and plenty of riches and artifacts!

But second off, I doubt you will 'cause there are a bunch of Cali cave divers out there who probably would've known about this by now... Maybe I'm wrong though, because I doubt they would let us in on their cave - Maybe we Floridians should go out there and video it and paste it on the interweb.

[Mike Edmonston]

Maybe we Floridians should go out there and video it and paste it on the interweb.

Where's the damn fireworks and popcorn icons when you need them!

Or maybe we could get 10 people together and buy it!

[Wizard]

Mike, stake a claim to it before those "other" people do!

[Cali Knucklehead]

First off, I hope you find a great dive hole and plenty of riches and artifacts!

But second off, I doubt you will 'cause there are a bunch of Cali cave divers out there who probably would've known about this by now... Maybe I'm wrong though, because I doubt they would let us in on their cave - Maybe we Floridians should go out there and video it and paste it on the interweb.

Come on out Jordan. Only the surfers are territorial.

Bruce

[aainslie]

Damn... gold!

Sounds like fun, although I'm not in a hurry to load up my car, drive 10 hours, jump in... and find it's a 20 ft deep puddle.

Anyone know these supposed divers that went to 270 ft personally, or are they friends of friends of friends?

Bruce, who invited you?

Jordan, this is California. We video everything in the hope it'll make us the next Mel Gibson!

[Cali Knucklehead]

Bruce, who invited you?

You know damn well I'm too lazy to drive that far for cold water.

[FW]

Sounds like fun, although I'm not in a hurry to load up my car, drive 10 hours, jump in... and find it's a 20 ft deep puddle.

You never know, unless you go

[Eric S]

Damn... gold!

Sounds like fun, although I'm not in a hurry to load up my car, drive 10 hours, jump in... and find it's a 20 ft deep puddle.

Anyone know these supposed divers that went to 270 ft personally, or are they friends of friends of friends?

Bruce, who invited you?

Jordan, this is California. We video everything in the hope it'll make us the next Mel Gibson!

Maybe what I should do is go up there and at least see this supposed "hole" and get back to you. Maybe I'll throw some gear on and go in a ways to make sure it's not just "20 feet deep".
Like I said, I'm not a cave diver but I heard of this forum on another board and figured it would be a good start just because I'm curious about this rumor and figured maybe somebody hanging out on this board had a friend of a friend of a friend that heard from a friend of a friend about Hall City Cave.

That's why I was asking about the divers that went to 270 feet, I don't know them, I was hoping one of you knew them.

[jmaddox]

Im sure im not the only one to see this maybe just the first.

so...

if you "not a cave diver" then you prolly shouldnt "throw some gear on and go in a ways". let one of the sump divers check it out for ya. just my .02$

cheers!

--jm