Possibly someone might be interested in what my brother and I did in our spare time growing up in Missouri.
When I was a sophomore in high school, my brother Lucas and our boyhood friend Jack Lilly decided we were going to explore a sinkhole we had heard about off Lions Den Road in Jefferson County.
To this day I can’t remember why my mom took us all the way over there and dropped us off for the day, but she did.
Since Dad worked on construction sites a lot, and was a pack rat, he had a lot of neat things to play with like 200 feet of 1-1/4″ hemp rope. This was so much rope one person could hardly carry it.
We packed a lunch, had gloves, flashlights, and put cave exploring clothes on. The first thing we explored was a fissure in the earth.
Thinking that this was the sinkhole, we walked carefully down the gradually ramped narrow crack in the earth. This large crack in the earth opened up into not too big of a cave, but we went back about one hundred yards.
