Ice Gulch cave, located just off the Appalachian Trail in Great Barrington is a steep drop into the canyon looking for a large and seeminging endless cave spiraling downwards. In the mountain west of Lake Buel there is a chasm called Ice Gulch. It’s walls are 80 feet high and its 40 feet wide. Huge rocks have fallen from above and filled it twenty feet or more, and among them ice prevails all summer. Among the theories this curious formation is that of an earthquake, based on Hitchcock’s idea, in his “Geology of Massachusetts,” is that it is a “purgatory” made by the sea during the partial submergence of the Atlantic Coast.

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