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These Caves of Chaos house multiple species of vicious humanoids. Plot twists include a treacherous priest within the keep, hungry lizardmen in a nearby swamp, and a mad hermit in the wilderness. It typifies the dungeon crawls associated with beginning D&D players, while permitting some limited outdoor adventures.
The owlbear is depicted as an eight to ten foot (2.5–3 meter) tall cross between a bear and an owl.According to descriptions in Dungeons & Dragons source books, owlbears are carnivorous creatures, famed for their aggression and ferocity; [6] they live in mated pairs in caves and hunt any creature bigger than a mouse. [6]
The cave was discovered in 1944, when a farmer named Jack McGann followed his dog, who was chasing a rabbit. The farmer did not explore very far into the caves, and did not tell anyone of the find for nearly 30 years. He told cavers of the cave in 1973 and that summer the cave was explored as far as a boulder choke.
Friars Hole Cave System is a cave in West Virginia's Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties. [2] First surveyed in the 1960s, [ 3 ] it is one of the longest in the United States and the world. Various sources put its total length at 63 km, [ 4 ] 73.4 km, [ 2 ] 72 km, [ 5 ] 77.4 km, [ 6 ] or 82.5 km long. [ 1 ]
In 1880, Pete Carver is part of a gang that robs a train of gold. They flee to a cave, where a posse chases and kills all of them except Pete, who insists he does not know where the gold is. Pete is sent to prison. Fifteen years later, Pete is let out of prison. He is tracked by Wells Fargo agent Dobbs who believe Pete will go and find the gold.
The Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst are a series of over 1000 karst caves spread out over a total area of 55,800 ha (138,000 acres) along the border of Hungary and Slovakia. [1] With an exceptional diversity of karst structures and complex cave systems developing from both temperate and tropical processes, the caves and surrounding ...
The ice formations in the cave were formed by thawing snow which drained into the cave and froze during winter. [4] Since the entrance to the caves is open year-round, chilly winter winds blow into the cave and freeze the snow inside. In summer, a cold wind from inside the cave blows toward the entrance and prevents the formations from melting.
Ingleborough Cave (formerly known as Clapham Caves) is a show cave close to the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England, adjacent to where the water from Gaping Gill resurges. That part of the cave that is open to the public follows a fossil gallery for some 500 metres (1,640 ft).