MUUV: Cave Tour & Kayaking!

TALUS CAVES

A great introduction cave for beginners and is our guests favorite. It is a 5 to 10-minute hike to the cave location. The guided trip includes approximately an hour-long cave adventure, making it just perfect for first timers.  You are never too far away from an entrance; the cave passage presents no serious danger or exposer.

KAYAKING 

After the cave tour, you will drive about 20 minutes to Lefferts Pond to swim and kayak. Kayak rental & life vest included. Pack a picnic lunch to enjoy at the pond.
Lefferts Pond: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g57302-d104997-Reviews-Leffert_s_Pond-Killington_Vermont.html

After kayaking, stay for a hike (on your own at Lefferts State Park trail) https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/vermont/lefferts-pond-trail?u=m


A little bit about the TALUS CAVES:

Talus caves are openings formed between boulders piled up on mountain slopes. Most of them are very small both in length and in cross section. Some boulder piles, however, do have explorable interconnected passages of considerable length. Some of the largest talus caves occur among granite blocks in New York and New England, where integrated systems of passages between boulders have been mapped to lengths of several Kilometers. These talus caves were formed by Glacial Plucking. Plucking, is a glacial phenomenon that is responsible for the erosion and transportation of individual pieces of bedrock, especially large joint blocks. This occurs in a type of glacier called a ?valley glacier. As a glacier moves down a valley, friction causes the basal ice of the glacier to melt and infiltrate joints (cracks) in the bedrock. The freezing and thawing action of the ice enlarges, widens, or causes further cracks in the bedrock as it changes volume across the ice/water phase transition (a form of hydraulic wedging), gradually loosening the rock between the joints. This produces large pieces of rock called joint blocks. Eventually these joint blocks come loose and become trapped in the glacier. This is why most vistas and rock faces in New England face Southwest showing the direction of retreating glacial north to Canada.