Eleven Jones Cave Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/11/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


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One of four caches along the adventurous Beargrass Creek Trail behind St. Xavier school and Louisville Cemetery.

Recommended parking for all four caches is in the lot near the Germantown softball fields. This lot is also used by St. X and can only be accessed via the St. X main entrance. Park at the very end in the non-numbered spaces. Parking coords below.
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Eleven Jones Cave has been documented in old Filson Club Society periodicals and by Louisville Historians, but the legend of Jefferson County's most famous cave exists mostly through word-of-mouth by new and old generation explorers and cave enthusisasts.

Legend has it, the Eleven Jones Brothers used the cave as a hideout in the early 1800s. They stashed money from bank robberies and stored other treasures such as gold and silver inside eleven rooms.

In 1967, survey teams made two physical trips and found a limestone crawlway with eight turns, terminating some 450 feet from the entrance. High levels of carbon dioxide and narrow passages make it difficult and dangerous to reach the end. A few rooms are large enough to stand in, but most of the crawlway is reportedly similar to the 40 foot long initial passageway you can see at the entrance.

Armed only with information that the cave was 1600 feet from the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Poplar Level Road, I found the cave, but could not find additional information online. Since my first visit to the cave, someone finally wrote a wiki on Eleven Jones Cave. It has also been added to Google Books via the Encyclopedia of Louisville.

**IMPORTANT PLEASE READ**

The cache is NOT in the cave! Exploring the cave even with a partner is dangerous and is not recommended. The decon container is about 10-12 feet from the cave entrance. There's no need to go inside the cave, but do LOOK inside and listen to the water echo!
Please replace as found. The recent storm has made some changes to the site. Fallen trees now block the trail in both directions. Also, did you check out the limestone stairway 250 feet upstream?

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

10-12 srrg sebz gur ragenapr. ebpx furygre.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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