1997 Speleo Digest

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1997 Speleo Digest

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Edited by Kim Opatka-Metzgar

1997 Article Title Index

1997 Swartz Canyon Project Update 123

A Laser Range Finder 336
A Caver's Prayer 513
A Forum of Formations 526
A Haiku 486
A Mini-Blasting System 397
A Paleontology Trip to Jamaica or Caving for Bones 315
A Quick Note on Ridgewalking From My Experience in Tennessee 350
A Simplified Story of Geologic Time 417
A Solution Cave in the Far Northeast 138
A Talus Cave Length and Connection Standard 406
A Test of a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) Unit 351
A Visit to Gouffre Coujolle 245
Abrasion Resistance of Webbing and Cordage 385
Aerial Ridgewalking 349
Afraid of the Light 525
Alexander's III 194
Alien Abduction Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 19
Allagash Ice Caves Revisited 140
Amnesia Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 20
An Insider's View of the Hellhole Rescue Weekend 294
Ante Bellum Cave Surveys in America 457
Arbogast-Cave Hollow System 281
Area 11 Cave, Jennings County, Indiana 117
Ask Dr. Slimerock 499
Audio Techniques for Videos 357
Aultman's Run Shale Chamber, Indiana County 188
Ava's Famous "Mystery Cave" 99

Bannisters Cave, Jennings County 110
Barrel Cave 13
Battery Packs 334
Bear Cave, Door County, Wisconsin 302
Belize Underground Research Program (BURP) 307
Ben's Cave and Nearby Caves Along Carr Branch, Greenbrier County 273
Berkshire Caves and Karsts: Eldon French Cave, Beauty in Banded Marble 148
Bilger's Rocks Ice Cave Gets Mapped (again and again and again) 211
Black House Mountain: A Cave for the Nineties - And Beyond 220
Black Tube Speleothems in Timpanogos Cave 420
Blackburn's Gear Bag: A Ridgewalking Tip 349
Blacklick Creek Valley Caves (South side), Indiana County 188
Bob Handley's Flashlight Connection 91
Bolling Cave, Scott County 264
Bucket Cave, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 30
Bucknell Cave 203

Calvin Cave Extension 244
Cartographer's Corner 376
Caspers Pit Cave, Jennings County, Indiana 119
Cave Description - The New Section of Heller #5 209
Cave Discovery Date is Finally Located 455
Cave Hunting in the Norther Arab Emirates 327
Cave Near Shepherdstown 284
Cave Tech - Handpumped Flashlights 347
Caver's Slang 402
Caving Ghost Stories and Other Caver Haunts 511
Caving in La Redemption, Quebec 312
Caving News 527
Caving on the Allegheny Front 276
Caving Song 485
Caving Under Orchid Land Drive, Puna District 86
Chinn Springs Cave Survey Report for 1996 42
Cincasputa Cave, Orange County, Indiana 117
Citizens Band Radios Revisited 336
City Caves 455
Clear Cut Experiment, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 36
Close to the Edge 309
Collectible 45 RPM Cave Records 394
Compass Courses: Do They Work: 364
Computer Graphics for Cave Maps 374
Confessions of a Crack Addict 507
Cove Knob Cave 278
Crackerneck Caverns 127
Crash Course on the Frog Ascending System 391
Creechs Cave, Jefferson County 102
Creekside Cave, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania 189
Crystal Cave, Box Elder County, Utah 238
CY Pit, Greenbrier County 279
Cycles of Downcutting in Massive Bedded Limestone Caves, or Ridgewalkiers
Think with Their Feet 419
Cyclops Cave, Hart Ledge, New Hampshire 155

Dark Greed 514
Description (Sawmill Cave Extension) 177
Description of two Small Caves from Northeastern Kentucky 129
Destination Unknown Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 22
Destructive Test Results of Old and Newe Cave Equipment 383
Die Hohle Dem Youghiogheny, Fayette County, Pa 211
Discovery Caves, California 50
Discussion of the H97 Talus Standard 407
Dr. John A. Schoenfeld, A 19th Century Berks County, PA Cave Explorer 451
Drumming 496
Dug It Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 36
Durmid Bat Caves and the Tramway Caves, Riverside County 48
Dyer's #2 284

Eagle's Roost Cave, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 30
Easy Pickings 488
Electric Caver Disorder (ECD) Information Fact Sheet 511
Elk Watching 287
Emergency Planning: What Every Caver Should Carry 339
Endorphinmachine 219
Exploration and Mapping of Enerson's Cave, Dane County, Wisconsin 301
Exploration in Lechuguilla Cave 158

Fairview Quarry Caves, Lawrence County, Indiana 116
Fallen Over Well 14
Field Test of a Compact GPS Receiver 351
Fifty Cent Pit, Jennings County 108
Fight With Photography 357
Finally a Big One! 290
Finding Acadia Cave 111
Finding Caves 352
Finis Cave, Pisgah 60
Firewater in the Hole 509
Five Small Tubes 73
Flitty Litter 520
Folia in Hurricane Crawl Cave and Crystal Dequoia Cave 414
Foster Cave, Jefferson County, Indiana 122

Garden of Eden 7: Jack Patrick's #3, Beyond the Hairpin 163
Gator Hole 69
George Cleveland Cave 106
Gibson Caves Nos. 1 & 2, Lee County 262
Glawackus Cave New Discovery in Connecticut 67
Godwin Cave, Autograph Book for Central Maury County, or, How to Document a Cave with a Thousand Signatures 444
Googol Cave, Pulaski County 128
Gray Stone Quarry History (Evan Jones Quarry, Harbridge Run Quarry) 176
Greenwood and Leverett Revisited 139
Groundhog Cave and Zigler Pit 268

Harmon Cave, Smyth County 264
Hawaiian Lava Tubes, 1996 87
Hedrick Cave, Lee County 250
Herring Roe on Karst Cave, Blanquizal Island, Tongass Cave Project 38
Hodags Blamed for Greenhouse Effect 508
Hodags Cause Cold Weather 486
Hoppocks Pot, Jennings County 111
Horseshoe Crawl Cave, Jefferson County 102
Hot Tips for Techno-Weenies! 333
How the Grinch Stole Christmas 47
Hummel's Cave Sleeps 52
Hurricane Storms Through West Virginia 280
Hypothermia - Play it Cool 342
Hypothermia and the Common Caver 340

I Find Myself 487
I'll Never Do That Again 508
Ibert Cave 40
If Stephen King Went Caving, Would This Be His Trip Report? 524
If Vertical Cavers Became Horizontal Cavers 506
In Defense of Surface Surveying 380
In Mammoth Cave: John Burroughs Perceptive Essay 463
In the Spirit of Reflection (Thoughts on the Treatment of Human Burials) 410
Independence County Ridgewalk 41
Inmans Cave 142
Interstate Cave 71
Is There Somethign Wrong with Your Light? 343
It's a Crazy World, But Someone Has to Crawl In It 487

Jabba The Cave, Jennings County, Indiana 113
John Gets a Hand 391
Joint Venture Cave, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 22

Karsty Riddles 482
King Quarry Cave, Lawrence County, Indiana 104

Land Owner Relations: Cave Critters 331
Lava Tubing in Hawaii 76
Le Trou des Perdus II 314
Leading Guest Trips 405
Leaning Stacks Cave, Minnesota 150
Leaping Trout Cave 202
LEARN Lechuguilla Expedition 156
Learning the Ins and Outs of Sketching and Mapping 379
Leche Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 38
Let's Get It Right 524
Let's Go Caving 521
Lewis Cave, Lawrence County, Indiana 121
Lilburn Cave Cartography Progress in 1996 57
Little Peaked Mountain Cave, Maine 143
Lone Ash Cave #2 269
Lowry Cave, Jennings County, Indiana 103

Malenskiya Bolshiya Persheyra, Heceta Island, Alaska 26
Mammoth Cave a Hoax, Claims Lifelong Caver 528
Mapping Amphitheater Cave 66
Marneldo Ranch: A New Project Begins 230
Massachusetts Miscellany 441
McNew's Cave, Scott County, Virginia 251
Me & Spelunk 401
Meissner Drawings of Crystal Cave, Pa. 453
Metropolitan Sewer District Finds New Cave 153
Missing You Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave 21
Mockingbird Canyon Cave, March 28, 1997 49
Modoc Caves 62
Mount Tabor Road Cave 204
Mountain Eye Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 34
Mud Crack Cave, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 32
Mud Room Cave, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 36
Multiple Uses for a Snappy 361

NEST Team Report, Alexander's Cave 196
NEST Team Report, Alexander's Trip to Sump 1a and Sump 1 198
NEST Team Report, Alexander's Trip to Sump J1, J2 and Sump E1 198
New England Long Caves and the Effect of the Talus Standard 408
Nickajack Cave, Tennessee, 1863, Described by John White Geary, (1819-1873),
Governor of Pennsylvania from 1867 to 1873 440
No Excuse for Not Knowing Magnetic Declination 378
North Fork Cave, Craters of the Moon National Monument 96
Northern Thailand, The Caves of Mae Hong Son 326
Novice Rappelnik 526

On Your Knees Cave Update 24
One Cave Mile 489
Origin of Folia 421

Pebbles 507
Penny Cave Description 108
Persisting in Marble Valley 58
Petzl Mega Tampering 346
PMS News 133
Powell's Cave Project, Surveys and Digs and Culverts ... Oh My! 226
Price Cemetery Cave (AKA: Fibonacci Series Cave) 185
Prison Den Cave 202
Psycrawlogy Cave, California 51
Pud Sumping 267

Quartet of Caves 100

Rangitoto Lava Caves 324
Rattlesnake Gutter Cave 149
Reaching Deep Into Lost (S)Wallet Cave 63
Recent Survey Efforts on Tom Ball Mountain, Berkshire County 145
Relict Marble Caves at Stephens Pond and Mitchell Ponds, Hamilton County 165
Restoration in the New Mexico Room in Carlsbad Cavern 331
Return to Sump 1A 197
Rock Eater Rules 352
Rope Coiling or Packaging Ropes 389
RT's Effin Hole, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 24
Ruit Canal 98

Safety Stuff, Warming You Up During Winter Time 339
Salamander Cave, Lee County, Virginia 252
Saltpeter Mining and the Civil War in Pocahontas County 448
San Fernando Valley Caving, March 24-26, 1997 46
Sandstone Surprise Cave, Highland County 246
Sawmill Cave 172
Sawmill Cave Extension No. 1 172
Scaling the Heights of Geiger Cave: The Big Dome Extension, Jackson County, Alabama 15
Scipio Cave, Jennings County 115
Scoop of the Month 218
Searing for Forest Canyon Cave 98
Seawra Cave, A Short History 443
Secrets of Amgine Cave 472
Sha-Wing Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 27
Shafer Run Cave History 179
Shafer Run Description 184
Short Changed 527
Short Roped 525
Slidrock Cave, Hardy County 283
Slouching Toward Babylon 499
Som'Ting Cave, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 28
Some Highland County Caves 254
Some Recent Finds from Across the Region 205
Some Silly Caves in Randolph County 293
Spacers for the Rappel Rack 384
Speleoequipment 348
Speleogenesis and Living Organisms. Is There a Connection? 412
Speleological Potential in Kerr County, Texas 235
Speleotechnics Electric Caving Lamp Systems 343
Speleovapors 486
Spelunkers Ode 496
Spelunking in Erie County, New York: Zoar Valley Cave 170
Spelunking is an Attitude 394
Spider Sink Cave 185
Stalking the Wild Cave Life 393
Stamm Cave 201
Stitzer Cave Discovered, An Impressive Cave Found Recently 200
Sullivan Hill Pit Cave, Lawrence County 113
Survey Tape Repair 363
Surveying in the Upper Culverson Creek Basin 285

Temperature Monitoring in Bat Caves 411
Texas Pit, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 25
The "Covington Grotto" of Robertson County, Tennessee 465
The "Fallen Giant Stalactite" In Onyx Cave, Pa. 452
The 1994 Cueva de Santa Cruz Expedition, Huautla de Jiminez, Mexico 320
The Alien Underground 492
The Ballad of Fred Yates 396
The Bushnell Yardage Pro 400 Laser Rangefinder 337
The Care and Feeding of Explosives: A Common Sense Guide to their Storage, Use
and Handling 395
The Cave of Floyd Collins 520
The Caves of Grand Bahama Island 304
The Caves of Marneldo Ranch and the Surrounding Area, Uvalde County, Texas 232
The Cleveland Caves 105
The ConNEDtion of Heller #4 and #5 209
The Coordinator's Corner: Pickoffs 382
The Debsconeag Ice Cave 144
The Discovery of Penny Cave 106
The Doan Outlaw Caves 190
The Exploration and Survey of Monolith Rift, a.k.a., Titty Pit, Van Buren County, Tennessee 213
The Fringe Edges of Caving 489
The Golden Crawl 504
The Horror in Easter Cave 224
The Joy of Carbide (Caplamp) Caving 345
The Little Red Caving Hen 529
The Lowdown on Lamar and Tompkins 203
The Manuscript 473
The Panther is Dead 187
The Problem with Least Squares Loop Closures 365
The Rime of the Ancient Caver 502
The Roaring Twenties at Crystal Cave, Pennsylvania 450
The Roosting 483
The Sixth Annual Wyandotte Cave Clean-Up 446
The Speleologogogue 503
The Spelunker's Delight: Cave Surveying Made Easy 368
The Survey of Pepper Leaf Cave 318
The Tandem Climber 521
The Tensionless Anchor and the Anchor Tie 388
The Tree Fork Cave, A New Discovery 150
The Wonders of Neoprene Footgear 332
The World With a Different View 513
Thomas A. Jagger, Jr. - Speleologist and Caver 442
Thoughts on Ridgewalking 350
Thundermug Cave, Monroe County, Indiana 119
Top Ten Signs You're a Tight-Assed Caver 471
Tough Glove 332
Trends in Map Drafting as Exhibited at the NSS' Cartographic Salon 362
Tubular Grike Hole, Heceta Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 33
Two Coon Cave, Jennings County 109
Types of Cavers 490

Under Africa 325
Underwater Cave Exploration in Missouri 152

Valcour Island, a Preliminary Report 166
Vertical Techniques Which Were Left Out of On Rope 491
Video Edit Equipment 358
Virtual Caver 501

We're Getting Closer to ... Something, Baby Head Voodoo 126
Welcome My Friends to the Scoop that Never Ends! Fentress County 222
What I Remember About that Survey From Way Back When 45
What is a Cave? 399
Who is the Boss? 470
Why Cavers Stink 484
Why in My Day 489
Wishbone Cave, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Tongass Cave Project 34
Wonderland Resurvey Project 160
Woodward Cave Resurveyed 192

You Know You're Caving with the Wrong People If ... 485
You Want to Sue? 404
Young-Fugate Cave: A Besieged Cave Resource 247