1995 Speleo Digest

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1995 Speleo Digest

Edited by James Adams

Title Index

100 Watts of Light 384
1994 Gray Bat Cave Survey Results 490
1995 Cheve Expedition, The 321
1995 Tequila Expedition, Veracruz, Mexico, The 315

Adventure of Ace P. Lunker, The 576
Adventures With the Japanese Cavers 122
Airmans Cave: Austin's Flint Ridge 251
Alternative to Nikonos Camera 386
Alternatives to Caving 435
America's First Underground Railroad 536
Animal 568
Annies Cave 24
Another Day on the Williams' Farm 112
Another Hole in Germany Valley 290
Another Mapping Trip To Chiricahua Crystal Cave 38
Archaeological Significance of Cave Sites, The 447
Archaeological Study at Lon Odell 451
Archeology and Cave Exploration on Prince of Wales Island 449
Art of Lead Tape and Other Related Ramblings, The 408
Attempted Suicide Cave 88
Audubon's Historic Lost Cave at Mill Grove, Pennsylvania 516

Bailey at 75: Footsteps of Tennessee Caver History 530
Baker Cave 113, 138
Basic Information for Beginning Cavers For a Safe and Fun Trip 374
Bat Conservation International Visits The Blackball Mine 489
Beaver Having A Ball & Caver Having A Nightmare Cave System 28
Berks County's Shearer Cave 547
Birmingham Pit 16
Blackstone Cave 27
Blue Marble Cave 22
Blunder Hole 11
Bobcat Cave Survey 43
Bolivar Track Cave 191
Boones Shower Cave Update 211
Bounty Caving 248
Bracken Bat Cave: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond 467
Brief History of Sellicks Hill Quarry Cave, Australia, A 352
Brussels Hill Pit Project 291
Buckeye Creek Area Dye Tracings 503
Bulbs Versus Strobes: A Quick Comparison 382
Burr Cave #2 (Bubble Cave) 282

Callisons Pond Cave 270
Carlsbad's Early Photographers 543
Cave Book Sources 431
Cave Cartography Using AutoCAD 403
Cave Digging Tips 428
Cave Maps: Using CAD for Detailing 407
Cave of Black Mesa, The 539
Cave of the Mist 272
Cave of Wonder and Other Shawnee Hills Adventures 76
Cave Survey Standards for Carlsbad Caverns National Park 398
Cave Thoughts from Marble Mountain Quarry Cave 182
Cave Watchers: Help for Caving Addicts 554
Cave Widow's Complaint 580
Caver Training - The Basic Rules 368
Caver's Prayer, A 573
Caver's Story of Discovery, A 528
Cavern at Trenton Falls 531
Cavernicular Animal Anecdotes 578
Caves and Cave Development in the Old Casey Quarry Area 189
Caves First! 350
Caves in Meramac State Park and Surrounding Area 139
Caves of Adams and Ross Counties, Ohio 179
Caves of the CCLUM Project 208
Caves of the Mormon Mountains 147
Caves of the South Pacific: Honiara, Guadacanal 327
Caves, Caves, Everywhere Caves! 123
Caving As Part of the Solution 349
Caving in Coastal Kenya 312
Caving in Delaware 53
Caving in Saudi Arabia 326
Caving in the Library at Central Missouri State University 439
Caving Life 564
Caving on Oak Ridge 107
Caving Protocol 371
Charge Of The Lost Brigade 557
Civil Defense Cave Yields Artifacts 447
Clay from Cave Valley Cave, The 533
CMAP Family of Cave Mapping Programs, The 400
Compact First Aid Kits 369
Comparative Study of Amphipod (Synurella dentata) and Isopod (Lirceus fontinalis) Population
Densities in Two Temperate Cold-Water Springs, Greene County, Ohio 485
Conepickers Caves Get Mapped at Last 267
Confessions of A Crack Addict 580
Conservation and Research in the Information Age 346
Conserving Caves is an Attitude 347
Coon Cave Description 215
Coon Cave History 212
Coon Cave Resurvey, The 217
Cornell Was A Caver 518
Cothron Pit Cave 239
Cow Rock Cave 199
Coyote Cave 235
Creating Electronic Maps from True-to-Scale Cave Survey Sketches 411
Curry Pit 195
Cyalume Sticks 365

Daisy World Cave 101
Dark Canyon 234
Day In the Life of An Ozark Cave, A 571
Dayton Underground, The 180
Dead Fox Cave and Turtle Shell Hole 186
Deans Unknown Cave 99
Dehydration Can Cause Collapse 366
Dennison Ferry Cave, A Backdoor to the Fisher Ridge Cave System? 117
Deseret Cave 105
Diary of a Carbide Caver 568
Digging at Cathedral and Guffey: An Interview of an Early Explorer 529
Digital Map and GPS Wanderings 396
Discovery and Exploration of the Abyss of Mount Novegno, The 309
Discovery of Boones Shower Cave, The 209
Discovery of the Mother Lode, The 161
Double Bungie Tips 415
Double Door Cave 181
Doyles Cave 193
Droop Mountain Cave 283
Dummy Cave 276

Earliest Showcave in the Midwest, The 534
Early Days of the Dallas-Fort Worth Grotto 515
Easter Cave 255
Eastern Vermont's Limestone Cave Potential 252
Eastern West Virginia Panhandle Karst Survey Project #11, The 289
Eastern West Virginia Panhandle Karst Survey Project #5, The 288
Eckerts Cave 207
Ecology and Observed Biota of Selected Caves in the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana 345
Egans Cave 98
Elderberry Cave 266
Electric Lamp System Review 375
Estil Cave 99
Estimation of Primary Production Using Chlorophyll a and Diurnal Curves on a Shallow,
Rapid-Flowing Spring and Effluent In Greene County, Ohio, The 479
Evac Cave 187
Evaluation of the Magellan Nav 5000 Pro Handheld Survey-Quality GPS Unit 391
Experiments in Photography 386
Exploration of Skull Cave 167
Extended Patient Care 367

Fault Cave Resurvey Project, The 49
Fern Cave, Supervovas, and the Creation of all Things Cave-Like 453
Finding a Gremlin 59
First Cloth Patch of the Wisconsin Speleological Society Discovered After 34 Years 517
Flagging Tape as a Conservation Tool 351
Flashlight Cave 46
Fletcher Pit Cave 91
Fletchers Cave Again 284
Fort Hill Cave 84
Four Small Caves Explored by Tongass Cave Project 31
Fox Cave Resurgence Cave 281
Freeloaders Harrisons Cave Project Report 299
Frog System, The 415
From Dongs to Hongs: Exploring Thailand's Karst Paradise 331
From the Solomon Islands 327
Fundamentals of Trip Leading 430

Ganister Cave #3 206
Garama Cave 334
Garden For Bats, A 482
Gear Tips 365
Geochemistry Study of Carlsbad Caverns Pool Waters 493
Geologic Aspects of Arizona Caves 500
Geology of the Bat Cave System and Bat Cave Preserve 498
Getting There is Half the Fun And Sometimes All of It 313
Gimme (Watershed) Cover 356
Global Positioning Satellite System 377
Global Positioning System 378
Gloves and Stuff 363
Goochland Trip 123
Gorge Spring Cave 79
Gourmet Caving 434
Graphical Solution for Determining Ceiling Heights 410
Grasshopper Cave 281
Great Vole Hole On Pole, The 74
Greens Cave 279
Grenville Marble Revival 175
Groan Way of Papoose Cave, The 72
Grotto Cave I 80

Haines Gap Caves 196
Hair Trigger Pit 28
Hard Hat Modification 359
Heard on the Net 572
Henshaw Bend Cave 87
Here's Mud in Your Ear 556
High Cave Traffic 428
High Meadows Goes 274
Historic Tytoona Cave 521
History of the Wittenberg Speleological Society, The 537
Homemade Flash Pan 389
Hot Diggity Cave 40
Hot Diggity Cave 40
How Do Bats Know it's Spring? 482
How To Crawl 434
Howdy 440
Hunter's Tale, The 565

I'm Going to Lechuguilla! 164
Ice Changes In Crystal Ice Cave - Where's The Ice? 75
In Pursuit of Another Big Kentucky Cave 115
Incident at Medicine Hole 551
Infrared Thermal Sensing 378
Introduction to Cave Ecology: Energy and Nutrients in Cave Habitats 473

J & J Pit Cave 100
Jackson Caves, The 93
Japanese Cavers Hit Lost River Cave 122
Junkyard Cave Body Recovery 566
Just Where Is Junction Cave? 132

Kilauea Crater Caves 68
Know Your Equipment 360

La Cherie Cave 25
Lackey Cave 102
Larsons Well: The Making of a Classic 243
Leading Novice Trips 369
Lebanon County Cave and Quarry Survey, The 197
Lechuguilla - The Southern Climes 160
Lenape Stone and Henery Mercer's Quest for The Cave, The 548
Lessons Learned 441
Let's Improve Our Sketching 390
Liars Bluff Cave 83
Like Clementine 544
Little Holes 288
Little Sulphur Creek Cave 81
Little-Known Entrances to Well-Known Caves 188
Locked in at Keyhole Cave 135
Logsdon Cave 110
Lost Indiana Bat Report, The 484
Lycippus Cave Surveyed 202

M�bius Box, The 562
Mannings Cave 99
Marble Mountain Quarry Cave 182
Mark I Cave Telephone 358
Master Cave Files of the Missouri Speleological Survey, The 436
Matiniko Falls Caves 328
Microsoft Makes Major Purchase 564
Miscellaneous Map 124, 145, 184, 237, 290
Moonprobe 34
Mountain Man, I Am 572
Mud Pond Cave 155
Mud Slugs: The Real Story 559
Mushroom Cave, Catalyst of Concern 477
My First Experience In A Wild Cave 433

Natsitleneis Den 32
Nearly Virgin Passage In Jesse Moore Cave 140
Neven Pit Cave 89
New Cave at 1992 Project Site 67
New Discovery in Santa Clara County, A 556
New Find in Gory Hole 92
No-Brainer, The 372
North Carolina's Bat Cave: A Brief History 527
Note on Bats, A 477
Notes on Alpine-Style SRT 417
Novice, The 573

Ode To A Helectite 573
Old Times At Knox Cave 540
On a Trip to Wonderland 44
On Classifying Tectonic Caves 495
Over and Under Hill in Amador County 511
Ozzys Hole 95

Panther Cave 286
Patricks Cave 48
Pennsylvania Caves That Aren't There Anymore 509
Pettijohns Project 1994 Update, The 427
Petzl Duo Headlamp, The 364
Pit 6083 and Some Others 62
Poem to the Medusa 561
Poha Cave 328
Population Trends of Indiana Bats in Indiana 468
Pozo de la Escalera Cristal 324
Practical Guide to Human Achievement, A 574
Praters Caves I, II, and III 140
Prince Charming Cave 268
Promised Land Cave #2 206
Protect Our Caves 337
Protecting Suunto Instruments 394
Pull the Plug Cave 26
Pumpkin Pit 25

Ramblings from a Mole 578
Rappelling San Antonio's Tower of the Americas 413
Rat Caves, The 229
Ready, Set, Go! Go Ready 118
Rebel Cave Project, The 240
Rediscovery of the Mount Anthony Goldmine, The 254
Removing or Masking Graffiti in a Cave 355
Renewal Battery Update 375
Repair Your Mini-Mag Flashlights 376
Resurrection Cave 269
Return to the Cabin Caves 50
Ridgedriving 245
Ridgepirating 247
Ridgewalking Finally Pays Off 41
Rise and Fall of Batman, The 572
Roger Cave 96
Rogers II and Skunk Hole Caves 97
Rubble Room and Hillside Quarry Cave 192
Rush Creek Cave 82

Safeties and Carabiners 366
Safety Prussic, The 417
Saint Clair Hollow Cave and Cavelets 231
Scenic Mushroom Cave 129
Seasons Out of the Sun 429
Seeing Through Rock 379
Sensitive Habitats: Caves 341
Sextons Cave 63
Shelter Cave on Green Mountain 166
Shipwrecked! 178
Short History of Kazumura Cave and Its New Extensions, A 61
Short Note on Cave Conservation, A 349
Short Saga of Leroy Cave, A 141
Show Caves Examined in Detail Provide An Interesting Spelean History Record 532
Significance of the Southeast Alaska Karst 445
Sinkhole Caverns Mystery Solved:
Spelean History Indicates Mysterious Cave Is Actually Lemon Hole 222
Sir Lance-A-Slot and Yank It Well 17
Six Caves in Four Days 163
Slab and Fissure Caves 207
Sleepy Hollow Crawlunder Cave 214
Sloans Valley Cave System and the Pulaski County Landfill, The 339
Small but Interesting Caves in Carter County, Kentucky 11
Small But New - Fathers Day Cave 278
Snowhole 36
Solo Cave Photography 380
Some Early History of Sullivan Cave 536
Some Notes on Gear 362
Speleodefinitions 564
Spotlight on Safety and Conservation 372
Stalactite Reattachment 496
State of Being, A 342
Stone Wall Well 90
Strontium Mines and Ain't No Catchment Cave 173
Study of Lemon Hole Cave, A 220
Sucked In 271
Sue Coffin Cave 103
Suggestions For Building Bat Houses and Attracting Bats 483
Sulfur Bacteria In Spelean Environments 457
Surface Geology and Rock Colors 500
Surface to Subterranean Visual Distortion: A Case Study 578
Survey and Gating of Fox Creek Cave, The 129
Survey Assault Team Logs Two More Caves 268
Survey of Secret Hollow, The 127
Surveying Boones Shower Cave 210
Surveying the Dalton Gang Hideout and a Table or Two 106
SVCTF Radio Locator Report 397
Swiss Cavers' Honour Code 348

Taking My Mom Caving 433
Taking the Highland Plunge 249
Taylor Cave 98
Taylor Cave and Whistling Cave 60
Technacell Replacement Batteries 358
Ten Years Later 535
Terra Nova Cave 33
That Rippled Register Analysis 424
The Cave Is My Lady 572
Thinners Revenge Cave 31
Three Neat Time Wasters That are Kind of Handy 432
Three Small Caves and a Good Ridgewalking Lead 204
Thunder Road 566
Tincher Jr Cave 92
Tit for Tat 564
To Map Geile Cave 125
Tomlen Caves 329
Top Ten Lists 567
Top Ten Reasons To Take Up Caving 558
Tragedy of Caving, The 581
Trap Door Pit 90
Travelers 573
Treasures Lay Beyond Commercial Trails in Ozark Mountain Caverns 126
True and Actual Story of the Rediscovery of Colossal Cave, The 570
Tube Trip to Hawaii, A 64
Turtle Plunge 96
Twenty Five Steps to Safer Rappelling 416
Two Point Cave 27
Two Small Tucker County Caves 287

Useful Wheat Lamp Conversions 363

Virgin! 21
Viroqua City Cave 295

Walking Fern Pit and Whopper Well - the Unknown Route 18
Walnut Tree Pit and Butcher Cave 276
Warrior Lookout Cave 24
Watch Out For Them Rascally Flint Hills Caves 370
Water, Water Underground 348
Waterworks Cave 22
Webworms in Missouri Caves 490
What is a Cave Useful For, Anyway? 344
What To Do If You Find Human Remains In A Cave 445
When to Leave Graffiti 356
White Onyx Cave 233
Whitney Quarry Cave 201
Why Are Caves Where They Are? 494
Why Did My Pants Come Off While Caving at Silent Splendor? 560
Why Manage Caves Anyway? 354
Windgate Cave 29
Winter Hibernacula Disturbances 466
Wire Trap Spring Cave 86
Wisconsin's Public Access Caves 296
Wishbone 22
Wolf Rocks Caves 229
Woodville Karst Plain Project, The 54
Word About the Owner of Coon Cave, A 213
Word Search, Caves of Indiana 559
Word Search, Cave Formations 569
Word Search, Mammoth Cave Sights 575
Word Search, Caves of Western Kentucky 579
Wright Quarry Cave 101

Yeagers Bluff Cave 95
Yo-Yo Pit 157
You Might Be a Caver If (Part 1) 553
You Might Be A Caver If (Part 2) 554