1991 Speleo Digest

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1991 Speleo Digest

Editor: Eileen O'Malley and Scott Fee

Layout: Tom Rea

1991 Article Title Index

1989 Speleological Investigations on Hecta Island 26
1990 Bat Survey of the Caves of Southwestern Wisconsin 511
1990 DOM 298
1990 Glacier Cave Explorations in Byron Valley 19
1990 Soviet-American Sneznaya Cave Expedition 399
1991 Proyecto Papalo Report 378

Accident Report 449
Adams Creek Cave and the Cool James System 98
Adventure in the Cerro Rabon 380
Advertisement: Cavers Rescued 556
Alexanders Cave #1 324
Almighty Prusik Still Pulls its Own Weight, The 481
Amazing Maze and Sorcerers Caves 253
And The Fat Lady Tunes Up 321
Another Dig at New Hope Cave 345
Appalachain Cave Troll 575
Aracnaphobia 336
Are You Really on Belay? 463
Arizona Has Some Caves To Speak Of 34
Arthurs Pocket Cave 75
As I Come Closer to the End 560

Bat Census - West Virginia Style 516
Bats of California 519
Beaver Lodge for Eager Beavers, A 78
Beginners Luck I 269
Behind the Redwood Door 39
Berkshire Caves and Karsts 524
Bet'cha A Dollar 334
Betetourt County Lives 293
Big Springs (Blowing) Cave 313
Black Death or Don't Kick That Dead Rat 455
Blanket Cave 24
Blowing in the Wind Cave 31
Bob Gee Cave 327
Bon Air Mountain Cave? 227
Bond Cave 82
Boston Grotto Descends on New Mexico 164
Box Car Cave 291
Boxwork Crystal Cave 189
Brubaker Cave Revisited 211
Buddha-Christian Cave 80
Building the Rope Litter 452
Bulb Brightness Experiments 429

C-10 Cave, Pisgah Lava Field 45
Canada's Longest Cave Dive 355
Canadian Cavin' 357
Cany Branch Cave 105
Captain Soup Cave 17
Carabiner Basics 471
Carter Caves Chronology of Historic Events 505
Carters Cave 280
Casparis Cave 201
Cass Cave Mastodon Sets Records 544
Cass Cave, So Far 338
Casteret Cave 322
Cathedral Spring 287
Cave 589
Cave Location Technology 437
Cave Poem, A 580
Cave Raven, The 580
Cave Talk 571
Caver's Guide to Laundry and Laundromats, A 490
Cavers' Code, The 583
Cavers: Economic Anomalies 552
Caves Along Long Run, The 213
Caves in the Max-Prince Realm 139
Caves of Franklin County 214
Caves of Middle Creek, The 66
Caves of the Culverson Creek Cave System's Resurgence, The 328
Caves of the Northern Snake Range 141
Caving Above the Bowden Quarry 340
Caving In Style 581
Caving at Mount Mansfield, Vermont 270
Caving in East Tennessee 247
Caving in Germany 367
Caving in Guatemala 369
Caving in Valles 1990 377
Caving in Yucatan on $25 a Day 375
Checkerboard Pit 136
Chepeta Cave, Three Trips 267
Chest Box, The 472
Cheve, 4,500 Feet 373
Chiapas Mexico 1991 Trip, The 374
Climbers Cave 337
Clipboard Surveying 459
Comic Cave Quotes 570
Comic Cave Quotes 575
Conquering Hoya de las Guaguas 383
Conservation: Cavers and Scruples 416
Continuimg Saga of the Survey of Wandas Waterfall Cave, The 64
Continuing Adventures of SpeleoShrink, The 569
Coon Cave 278
Correlation Between Helectites and Orange Fluorescing Calcite 524
Cottonwood Cave 149
Crayfish Crevice Dye-Tracing Project 541
Crosley Canyon Cave 78
Crow Creek Crevice: Elusive Reality or Cruel Hoax? 135
Crystals found in Crystal Cave 347
Cryustal Cave Map Unveiled 349

Dark Meaning 589
Dark Riders, The 585
Dash for Virgin in Chert Valley Cave, A 268
Dateline: Istanbul or a Gimp Abroad 404
Day at the Caves of the Mayville Area, A 346
Dead Heads Return 309
Dig, The 240
Digging is Fine, But Candy is Better 491
Dillon Cave and Eckleberger Cave 76
Dimple Cave 19
Discoveries at Browns Depression 170
Discovery in the Sinks of Lander 351
Disposal of Batteries 422
Down the Upstream Maze 48
Dr Strange Cave or How I Learned to Stop Fearing the Caves and Love Them 568
Drag Rock Cave 127
Dropping By a Pit on a Winter's Evening 580
Dual-Roller Chest Plates 473

Each Caver's Life Affects Another Caver's Life 589
Early Pennsylvania Cave Reference Found 503
Earth's Intimacy 563
Easly Ridge Karst Area 219
Edger Creek (Ramsey) Cave 109
Effectiveness of Familiar Size Cues in Determining Scale in Cue Deficient Visual Displays 546
Electric Caving Before Light Bulbs or Carbide 421
Elusive Jack Patrick Cave System, The 177
Emily's Spring Break 452
Emily's Spring Break 568
Enchanted Caves, The 120
Erosion Processes at the Tapioca Mud Caverns: The Human Q-Tip Effect 560
Even More at the Bottom of Newton 309
Expedition Caving in New Zealand 386
Exploration of Driftwood Cave, The 154

FOS and Speak To Me Caves 286
Fairlay Cave 325
Fatal Accident in Sistems Cuicateco, Mexico 485
Ferrels Cave Number 6 303
Final Survey of Cave Ridge, The 300
Finding Caves from Outer Space 439
First Impressions 563
First Successful Exploration in 15 Years, The 266
Fisher Ridge Rap 563
Flemings Cave 295
Foot CMI, The 472
Fort Stanton Cave 163
From the American Spelunker 571

Gating for Wildlife 413
Geological Observations of Recently Drained Brubaker Cave 535
Goblet, The 308
Goold Cave System 72
Grahampton Spring Cave 116
Great Thanksgiving Adventure, A 250
Grill Cave 302
Growth Rate of Fibrous Gypsum, The 523
Gum Springs Mountain Project, The 233

Half Cave 155
Half Way to Honey Creek 257
Hall Spring Cave 80
Hamilton Spring Cave 132
Harry and the Cave Rescue 575
Harry's Great Adventure 561
Headlamp Oddities 429
Hell Yes, They're Free Aren't They 470
Hideaway Cave 25
Highland County Survey 556
Hinkles Impossible Pit 326
History of Recorded Alabama Caves, A 499
Holiday Hole 310
Horselick Hell Cave 113
How the Railroad Infulenced Cave Discoveries in Berks County, Pennsylvania 508
How to Clean Your Suuntos 459
How to Find Cave Locations in Missouri (Or Anyplace Else) 439
Human Impact on the Cave Ecosystems 411
Hydrological Relationship of Dryden Sinks Pit Cave,Dryden Cave, and Crosley Canyon Cave, The 79
Hypothermia 456

Ice Glen Caves 100 Years Later 126
Ice Rink Cave Extension 305
Ice Walking for Caves 271
Impressive Irrelevance 562
In Martel's Footsteps 364
In Search of a Better Battery 433
Incident at Morgans Pit 450
Incident, The 554
Inside Avery Hill-The Hole Story 123
Interesting Facts About Calcium Carbide 425
Into the Face of Death 573
Introduction to Cave Holography, An 445
Is this Place for Real? 228

Jacobs Fork Cave 190
Jaw Bone Hole 70
Jims Hole (Rodemaker Cave) 72
Joober Cave: Two Years Beneath the May Apples 172
Jumar Ascender, The 479
Junior Chamber Cave 278

Karst Hydrology at Grand Targhee 540
Karstic Back Country of Guangxi, The 358
Kauai Reconnaissance: August 1990 58
Kelly Chasam 239
Keyhole Pit 202
Keyhole Slot Cave 84
“Knee-Knocker” Ascending System, The 582

Late Holiday Recipe, A 581
Lechuguilla Experience, The 157
Lehigh Valley Cave Rumors, Myths, and Legends 507
Lighter Side: Herding Nerds and What I've Learned, A 553
Lone Room Cave 297
Long Hollow Project, The 114
Long Spiral to Financial Ruin, The 569
Lost! 454

Major Caves of the World 406
Make Your Roosa-Light Cave Resistant 433
Making Light in the Dark 434
Mallet Dome Cave 338
Manual Flash and Zone Focusing 444
Mapping Completed at Salamander Cave 187
Mapping In Sandstone at Panthers Den 63
Mapping in Li'l Bit of Gonzo 57
Marble Cave 14
Marble Valley Project 1989, 1990 44
Martin Springs Cave, A Mystery Explored 9
Mason River Cave 243
McCoys Mill Cave 314
McFerrin Breakdown Cave 329
McSpadden's Powder Mill and the Nearby Saltpeter Cave: A geneological Assement 501
Meek Cave 82
Megawell Cave Fatality 482
Merlins Lair Cave and Bert Zerr Cave 244
Merv's Slippery Bowline 473
Minnesota First, A 128
Minnesota's Two Hiawatha Caverns 129
Modifying Your Justrite Headlamp 428
More Explorations in McFails Cave 168
More at the Bottom of Newton Cave 305
More on the Mystic Cave Project 192
Mossy Cliff Cave (Catawba Creek Cave #3) 281
Mount Vernon Church Pit 332
Mowrey Run Cave 331
Mud 559
Music and Caves 573
My First Rappel 575
My First Successful Dig 156
Mystery of Cueva Huevos, The 372
Mystic Cave Project 252

N.C.R.F.P.C. 562
Naming and Some History of Eagle Cave, The 495
Narrows Project, The 131
Natural Encounter 589
Nellies Cave 333
New Dig Number 3582 557
Northeast Cave Diving Notes 185
Northwest to Alaska 21
Not-So-Armchair Caving 564
Nuttin Fancy 228

Occurrence of Carbonate Rocks in the Ketchikan Area 536
"Ol' Buddy!" 566
Old One-Eye Cave 16
Organ Cave 325
Overview of Land Management Problems and Hazards in Karst Regions, An 418

Packers Cave 292
Paleomagnetism and the Age of Caves 533
Panthers Den in 1809, The 504
Parks Ranch Cave: Growing and Going 161
Patience Pit 202
Peculiar Battery Problem, A 436
Peculiar Kind of Lava Pseudokarst, A 534
Perseverance Pit 205
Peters Cave(s) 118
Pikes Peak Caving 56
Platter-Persistence Pit 204
Poor Man's Guide to Cave Photography, A 441
Post Expedition Activities of the 1991 Sistema Cuicateco Project 381
Prerequisites for Cave Diving 409
Pretzel Cave Survey, The 264
Promising Dig, A 551
Python Pit 206

Radon 536
Radon Gas in Washington Caves 537
Rare Find Indeed!, A 77
Raven Cave 23
Re-Emergence of McAlisterville Cave, The 215
Recent Discoveries of Secondary Mineral Deposits in an Idaho Lava Tube 522
Reflections in a Golden Cave 281
Reflections of a Gear Head 488
Rejuvinating Old Wheat Lamp Batteries 436
Repair and rejuvination of a Carbide Lamp 427
Repairing Damage: Restoration Efforts in Blue Hole Quarry Cave #1 412
Rescuers Recovered: Victims Fate Unknown 577
Rhodes Cave Reopened 209
Ridge-Walking Near Parkers Pit Cave 87
Ridgewalk in High Cliff State Park 348
Roadkill 291
Roch House Pits 306
Rockhouse Road Cave 249
Rollerdome, The 54
Roppel Cave 104
Russell Cave 8
Rusty Cave Revisited 50
Ruth Cave Project Report, The 194

Sacrifice to the River God 41
Salamander Blowhole 224
Sandstone Caves of the Jackson River Gorge 282
Sarles Lost and Sarles Crevice Caves 68
Sea Cave Find Keeps the Marineland Name Alive 49
Sea Caves Between Table rock and Needle Rock, Santa Cruz County 52
Sea Caving in Acadia National Park, Maine 122
Sea Caving is Full of Surprises 47
Seacats Cave 67
Secret Gem in New Mexico's Hidden Karst, A 150
Sermon: Rope Walkers and Emotional Maturity 479
Sex and Cavin' 561
Shag Nasty! 241
Sharmans Run Cave Update 125
Sheep Creek Cave 263
Short Story 572
Short Stroll to Asia Dome, A 166
Show Caves of Yucatan 377
Significance of the Hostermans Pit Bone Deposit, The 544
Skull Cave 66
Slate Cave, Cloister Cave and Skunk Cabbage Cave 11
Smoke Hole Cave 276
So You Want to Do a Cave Map 458
Some Doubted it Could be Done 489
Stephens Gap Cave 6
Stop Look Listen for Conservation 415
Story of Baby Hog Horror Hole, The 222
Straleys Two: A Beginning Sketcher's Cave 275
Stretch 35 446
Subterranean River: An Exploration of Whiteface Cave 261
Subterranean Stream Piracy 132
Summer 1990 European Caving Adventure 362
Summer Bat Study 518
Sump Exploration In Montague Cave 3
Sunnyside Tick Cave and Sunnyside Grotto 42
Superior Sea Caves 342
Survey Class Final Exam 584
Sweet Autolight 589

Tate-Potter Cave 134
Tepee Pole Cave 139
Thanksgiving Week End 111
The Squeeze Box-Appalachian Cave Models from the Nineteenth Century 531
Thomas Cave 277, 301
Thoughts and Experiences 578
Three Caves of the Gorge 73
Three Fingers Cave 158
Thunder Run Cave 220
Thunderstorms! What Thunderstorms? 236
To Survey or Not to Survey 558
Tolliver Swallow Hole 84
Top Ten Reasons Why Cavers are Better Than Climbers 562
Totally Awesome Tow Cave 70
Totally Unapologetic and True Story of the Discovery of The Crystal River in Paxtons Cave, The 572
Trip of a Lifetime-Caving in The Soviet Union, The 390
Triple Engle Pit 152
Troll Cave Dig 1990 256
Trout Rock Bat Count 518
True Caving Challenge, A 61
Turkey Run Shelter Cave 191

Unconventional Caving Lights 423
Update on the Mystic Cave Project 255
Upper Reaches of Little Brush
Creek Cave, The 265
Upstream PythonThe Tale 205
Using SMAPS to Prepare a Cave Map 462
Using Water to Your Advantage in Cave Photography 443
Using a carbide Cap Lamp 424

Vermont's Haystack Cone Cave 271
Visit to H.T. Miers Cave, A 259

Washing Ropes 482
Well of Souls 232
West Ridge Caving in Saudi Arabia 388
Wet! 7
Weyers Cave During the Cival War 498
What I Learned 490
Where Cavers Go 551
Whirlwind Tour of Hudson Valley Caves, A 186
Whitewater Caving 129
Why 580
Willow Peak Cave 137
Wind Cave Releases Its Secrets 216
Window Well - Prince of Wales Island 29
Winter Palace Discovered 51
Wonders of Two-Dimensional Caving, The 117
Wools Whim 86
Word (or More) About Caving Ethics, A 414

Zooks Pit 200