"Karst of Sinking Valley and Kooken Cave, Huntingdon and Blair
Counties." Edited by William B. White. Mid-Appalachian Region Bulletin
21; 2012. 8.5 by 11 inches, 103 pages plus map plates, softbound.
$27.50 plus shipping (NSS members only); see www.caves.org/region/mar/pubs.htm
.
This is the first MAR bulletin since 1996, and most of the others are
county surveys. This new bulletin is an in-depth study of two major
(for Pennsylvania) caves and the geology and hydrology of their area.
Kooken Cave is 9035 feet long and 244 feet deep, and its history goes
back to the 1930s, when two entrances were dug in hopes of finding a
cave with commercial potential. The horizontal Tytoona–Arch Spring
Cave System has a much longer history because of its large and
conspicuous entrances, and it has been an NSS cave preserve since
1997. A past attempt to commercialize it, probably doomed in any case,
failed because a flood destroyed improvements. It would provide a
through-trip of almost five thousand feet, but with four sump dives. A
map of Tytoona is on three foldouts, and a map of Kooken Cave is on
two large, loose folded sheets, undesirable because of their tendency
to stray, but justified by the amount of detail. There is much that is
still unknown about the hydrogeology of Sinking Valley, and there is
potential for the discovery of additional large caves.
--Bill Mixon
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