I know you are all dying to know.... why is it named "Ape Cave"? So this post is for you.
(According to the Ape Cave Exploration Guide...)
"Ape Cave...wasn't discovered until 1947 by a logger named Lawrence Johnson. In 1951, a local youth group led by Harry Reese extensively explored the cave...The youth group dubbed themselves the St. Helens Apes, in memory of a 1924 hoax perpetrated by two boy scouts." According the story, these two scouts were throwing rocks into a canyon. They didn't know there was a cabin below them with two miners in it. To the miners, it "looked like there were small ape like figures high up in the canyon, making ape noises and hurling big rocks...the miners reported that apes attacked them. From this legend, Ape Cave received its name."
So...now you know.
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