Nutty Putty Cave Map -

The official map clearly shows as a blind passage—it goes nowhere. However, Jones and his brother mistakenly believed it connected to a larger area called The Big Slide due to an old, informal hand-drawn map. This error led him to enter a passage that was less than 10 inches high, with a ceiling that sloped downward, trapping him in an inverted position.

You can still find the Nutty Putty Cave map in old caving guidebooks, online archives (like the Wayback Machine’s cache of Utah caving sites), and in accident analysis reports from the NSS. It’s often shared alongside a diagram of the rescue attempt — a somber pairing of cartography and consequence. nutty putty cave map