That footage is sharp for 1995 videotape

1:15 - "...the few who know where this is."

All joking aside. I was born & raised in these forests of the great Pacific Northwest. You have to be born & grow up here to truly know these mountains & forests. And yes you do have to be very careful in & on them. Every day was a new adventure, and some thing discovered all the time. We never felt like we were in any danger. I will never give up those memories for any thing. I'm 68 now, and I will all ways have them to look back on....

Found it about 20 years ago after seeing an old map in the Register Guard and matching up contour lines to a 1955 topo map of the N. Fork. The ferns on the north wall are beautiful.

AH THE GOOD OLD DAYS....NO HARNESS...JUST GOOD OL' ROPE. 😂

I'm a local, I live not far from Oakridge and I do a lot of forest exploring. I've been here, but not down into it. It's pretty scary being up on the edge of it. Love My Oregon!!

The Cascade holes closer to Port Orford , have wind coming out of them , and you can smell salt water .

You wouldn't find me in that death trap, thanks for sharing though!

Wow, the 90s safety gear. What a hell of a time to be alive.

Ah yes I remember the days when old school forest service employees,loggers,and hunters were the only ones who knew "secret" spots in the oregon cascades! Had to know mountains and read a map/compass. Now with Google earth and GPS social media ,they are all but gone! I grew up visiting a trail system about 30miles east of this spot in the video on the edge of a rugged wilderness. We used to spend 2 or more weeks in there. See 1 or 2 other people. Now it's tough to find a parking spot at the trail head..

so how much has this thing moved by now? it's been 25 years

They left out the good stuff. You must go under some huge boulders and over some others while descending. Lovely place for sure. In my opinion, this site is less dangerous than many other places in Oregon.

Wow! That voice! 😍

I like this, I like hearing of anything back home.

Love this video ! I never knew of these flows south eaat of Portland. I had been in Apea Caves on the southern side of Mt St Helen's quite a few times from 1974 and 2000. Dad first took me there in 1974 with his brother in law and my cousin who had 3 sisters. 1st few trips there even younger kids went up the lava tube towards the Mt with a rise of 400 feet in a mile and a half to the nature made hole to climb a steep but built as tank ramps for getting on low boy trailers. People who have lived on east or west coast would think the ground on down to parking area is just course sand. Nope it's huge rocks that have been pulverized going straight up thousands of feet to have to crash to earth hitting boulders going up !

Thought the hell hole was in Fresno County, CA this whole time! My second guess woulda been Bakersfield! JK...kinda

My husband worked for Search and Rescue in this area. He would pull people out of the Cascades who had all sorts of mishaps on their hiking/climbing adventures. People- don't do things that will result in your rescue mission.

Man in pink T shirt, pony tail & bald spot... All the makings of a great video :D

The guy in the pink shirt is Paul Rudd's long lost Oregonian doppelganger lol

Nice old video! I just did a video here recently.

The *HELL HOLE* drinking game. I can’t even count how many there were.

If they fall it's their own fault for using no care at all or any safety gear, and what the hell is that rope from? An old sailing ship?

I enjoy snoopin' around in these mountains and above Blue River area, but no way in hell am I descending into THAT lol😅

1:13 among few that know the whereabouts. .... as they show the exact location?

Great video thank you 👍🏻

That’s awesome.

Thats the area I learned my Mountaineering. South Sister area

The dirt at the top is so dry & loose, it seems like it's never seen rain.

There is a place I call Thermometer Gorge that is also remote. Imagine this gorge with a smooth rounded bottom to it. I will leave it for explorers to find.

There’s another crack roughly 7 miles SW of there that’s at least that deep.

Stunning, plus great videography. Is that Weston below in the distance?

The Earth has been doing its thing for millions of years, These guys are gonna figure it all out.

They're not even using carabiners! 😮

43 seconds in, and I cant listen to this guys voice any longer... and I live in Oregon.

As an experienced caver and ex-USFS, this is a really bad example of an official "exploration". No way USFS would allow such a half-assed field activity today.

Dang! Just how many Mike Long's live in Oregon?!

I have a crack with slippage needs to be explored

Thousands of years....or tomorrow afternoon at 2:37.

Before you see this violent savage hell hole, you'll feel it . . . from the mosquitos!

People just can't leave anything alone

gold

No clue how I stumbled on this...I see that its from 95 but I find it funny they say one of a few people that know the location but they show a map w/latitude and longitude 😂 now I have to google Hells Hole in Colorado!

We are approximately right here! Lmao

And I do not see a downside to a four mile long lake in this watershed.

43° 53' 42.91 N -122° 21' 14.63 W

Is this where D.B. COOPER went? Eric dying watching tv

3 minutes in still have not seen the hell hole. That last for 1-2 minutes

I've been there. Used 1inch fire hose to repel down. I wouldn't want to be there during a heavy rain storm.

They always ask me questions, why I have no idea.... Eric dying not making sence

Hell hole ya say ?

AND AND AND

Was there any seismic evidence of this??????

Headwaters of the Willamette

two guys get loaded drinking beer going to a drop-off in their mountains climbing in without proper equipment, like something with a brand on it, no really, they could have used proper ropes and climbing gear, I didn't see how long or difficult getting back up was.

95...was this before mountaineering rope.....thats classic rope made of hemp

Bigfoot is the only thing missing.

"Uncountable Centuries" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Hyperbolic Much.

What's the deal with that ridiculous rope??

Everyone knows that Salem is Oregon’s hell hole, not the city of course, the capital and it’s inhabitants. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Commenters

The title is incorrect. This is in the Coastal Range, not the Cascades

It's not Lava and 50,000 years its mudfossil large creatures that died in the flood

"HELL HOLE" I AM SURPRISED NO MAN JUMPED ON THAT ONE REFERRING TO AN EX-WIFE!

WTF. going down with a rope and no rope gear. How stupid.