1998 Speleo Digest

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1998 Speleo Digest

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Layout and Design by Kyle G. Crider

1998 Article Title Index

1998 Modular Cave Rescue Training 428
1998 OTR Cave Quiz 511

Accident in Canada 429
Actress, The 494
Afton Slot Canyon Cave 46
Ainsworth Hotsprings 275
Alkaline Cells 435
Allegany State Park Region Caves 169
And What is Claustrophobia to You? 426
Another Crack at Blowing in the Wind Cave 9
Another Day, Another Cave 50
Another One's Gone 473
Another Poem 485
Aquatic Verticality 14
Armin Krueger Memorial 101

Babes and Caving 512
Bad Ass Caving 220
Bad Light Cave 11
Bankhead Forest Field Trip Reports 8
Barmy Rubble Pot 21
Bats, Cavers, and the Ohio Bat Survey and Database 383
Beam Rocks Cave Surveyed 196
Bears Breath Cave 171
Beginner's Project Cave, A 499
Beginnings 515
Belay Research 437
Belize Journal 273
Berlin Spring Cave: The Rest of the Story 346
Big Cairn Cave 99
Big Creek Caves I, II, III, and IV 108
Big Jump and Falcon Caves 15
Big Seven-O, The 366
Black History Month: Stephen Bishop 351
Blasarus Blunder Cave 109
Blowhole Cave Trip Report 234
Blueberry Cave 153
Bluff House Cave 110
Bob Higgs Reminisces 349
Body, Bones, and Fancy, Hand-Packed Tomatoes 472
Borneo Impressions 303
Bowden Cave Floods--Gangsta Mappers Escape Unscathed 248
Bowden Cave Resurvey 266
Bowmans Gap Cave 255
Boyd Cave 110
Bradford Cave Revisited 376
Bradford Cave: A Looted Burial Cave in Bartow County 374
Breezeway Cave Exploration 53
Brooks Spring Cave Remapped 189
Brussels Hill Pit Project: What Happened To It? 270
Bunyans Bellow Cave 11

Cabin Cave 243
Captain Bradys Mine Rediscovered 199
Carpenter Cave 113
Cataracts of Miramar, The 279
Cave Access Issues 467
Cave Airflow 382
Cave Conservation Starts With You and Me 392
Cave of the Black Spring 329
Cave Sonnet 453
Cave Trip Carol, A 521
Cave Widow Perspective 482
Cave Wins (Again) or The Screamway Part II 140
Caver Mom 482
Caverns Deep Within, The 513
Caver's Dream, A 492
Caves in Louisiana 151
Caves of Egypt 287
Caves of Illinois??? 102
Caves of the Wimps Gap, The 180
Caving Ghost Stories 484
Caving in England 288
Caving in Hawaii 87
Caving in Ireland 299
Caving in Switzerland 334
Caving in the San Juans 60
Caving With Liza 510
CCLUM Project Updates 191
Cedar Tree Cave and Big Bone Cave 209
Cessna Pit I & II 116
Chris Cupboard 48
Christmas Tree Cave 44
Clastic Sediment Transport in a Karst System 415
Coldwater Cave 129
Coldwater Cave: Chamber of Horrors 130
Comanche Springs 225
Comedy of Errors 460
Coonscat Cave: Brief History and a New Map 197
Courthouse Cave Description 133
Cover of the NSS News, The 491
Crack of Doom 31
Cracks 212
Crawl, The 5
Creep Called Zig-Zag (And Other Short Caves of Cedar Creek), A 131
CRF Finds New Karst Connection in Mineral King Valley 409
Crystal Bone Cave 90

Danger Below! 7
Dan-yr-Ogof 331
Dark Water 496
Dark Woods 251
Dave in the Cave, The 502
Dead Arises, The 185
Death (Dead) Fall Story, The 185
Deep Well 4
Deerbone Cave 193
Description of La Cueva de los Ladrones 166
Devils Icebox Cave--Water Quality Data 407
Devil's Own, The 486
Devil's Sinkhole--As the Crow Flies 229
Dickson Saltpeter Cave Revisited 253
Discovery in Niagara Cave 159
Discovery of Chockstone Cave 236
Discovery of New Area in Polygamy Cave 231
Dissappearing Passages 483
Do as I Say, Not as I... 512
Do Bats Smell? 481
Do You Consider Yourself a Caver or a Cave Conservationist? 385
Documentation Trip to Hubbards Cave 378
Donde Esta el Peyote? 309
Donkey Doo 99
Donde Esta El Piloto Del Helicoptero? 317
Donte Esta El Bano? (or Returning to the Scene of the Crime in Mexico) 306
Dr. Bellou Section of Kazumura 97
Dr. Max Schrabisch: Pioneer Discoverer of New Jersey Caves 361
Dr. Slimerock 500
Drain Cave Survey Finished 76
Dravosburg Mapped 202
Dreamland Caverns, The 478
Druid? Druid! 258

Early Signature Found in Huntsville Cave 3
Early Suggestion for a Speleological Society in the USA, An 348
Eating and Safety or Feed Your Body First 424
Electronic Format Topo Maps 436
Expensive Toys to Take Caving 441
Exploration of Jump-Off Horror Hole 213
Exploration of Sotano de los Tres Ojos Verdes 304
Exploration of Way Back Cave 217
Exploring the Karst of the Caribbean Basin 283

Felknor Hollow Pit Cave 107
Finding the Treasure of Laurel Caverns 388
Fisher Ridge Summary 145
Five Damned Good Reasons to Avoid Cave Diving 470
Florida Caves 75
Floyd Collins Musical 458
Forever is Here 470
Forgotten Stairway Cave (Stairstep Cave) 124
Frank--Scott Will Need a Title or Something to Separate this Shit from the Real Articles 507
Fred Jewkes' Walking Stick 368

Gating Clough Cave 438
Giffords Hole 197
Glazed Chimney Cave 91
Goats Grave Cave System 90
Gold in Caves? 210
Golden Years of Arizona Caving, The 370
Goshute Cave 161
Government Canyon Karst Survey Project 223
Gradys Trip 144
Gradys: Return to Perforation (Quest for Oblivion, II) 141
Great Cracker Adventure, The 41
Great Saltpetre Cave: A Geology and Archeology Field Guide 398
Gros Ventred in the Black Hills 211
Grotto Cave 155

Harness Hang Pathology 427
Having Fun Yet? 503
Haystack Cave--A Cave of Volcanic Origin in Colorado 397
Helictite Cave 244
Hell Tour 504
Hellsinky Cave 28
Herb Black Reminisces 452
Heritage of Jackson County (AL), The 483
High Meadows Cave 253
History of Exploration and Survey in Hurricane Cave 82
Hodag Song, The 507
Hog Farm Proposal in Karst Area Defeated 386
Holy Family in a Cave, The 509
Home Telephone to Military Phone Interface 445
Hoti Cave Adventure 325
How to Go Underground 487
How to Keep Warm in a Stream 432
Hurricane Pit--Karst Kraze, June 7, 1996 139
Hydrogeology of Colorado's Spring Cave, The 410
Hydrogeology of Colorado's Spring Cave, The 413

I Never Knew Its Name: Frankfort 492
Implications of Corrosion Residue at Candlelight Cave 403
In Search of Utopia 156
Introduction to Histoplasmosis, An 423
Introduction to Ol' Goffer's Hermetical Dictionary of Caving Terms, An 520
Island Ford Cave Clean-Up 395
It's Only a Wee Cave 20

Jackpot Saga Sonnet, The 516
Jars of Time, The 506
Jay Feather Cave and Ebb & Flo Cave 42
Jefferson Proving Ground Karst Study 118
Jewel Cave 207
Jewel Cave--Return to the East 205
John Gottlieb Schofer: The Miller Behind the Cave 343

Kahf Hoti 324
Kahf Tahry (Selmah Resurgence Cave) 326
Killus Cave 120
King Kong Cave 43
Kukui Cave 95

Landowner Relations: Don't Kill the Cow 394
Lava Top Butte 178
Law of Mud, The 468
Learning New Skills in Monroe County 104
Lechuguilla Possible "Amazing Caves" Filming Location 451
Ledokol-E Cave 24
Legend of Mott Hole, The 508
Litium AA Batteries 434
Little Canyon Cave 96
Lizard Cave 210
Long and Deep Caves of the Tongass National Forest, 1998 30
Lower Relay Junction Cave 91

Malagra Ridge 471
Man, The 454
Mapping the Virginias: An Interview With Earl Thierry 354
Mark Twain Cave 459
Martha Lou Spring Cave 121
Meditation 465
Meet the Press 466
Mexico III (The Final Suck-In) 312
Microcontroller-Driven Cave Radio, A 442
Morgan County's Finest 222
Morris Cave Cleanup 387
Morris Cave Incident 237
Mount Rainier Steam Caves 247
Mr. Hypo's Distortions of Space-Time 433
Mt. Horrid Challenges 238
Much of Nothing 463
Mummau Cave Extended 184
My Life as a Lehman Lint Liquidator 446

Naj Tunich 298
Naj Tunich and Pinturas 295
Natural Deathtrap 518
Needmore Cave 122
Neighbors Cave 147
NEST Team Report: Alexanders Cave 204
Nevada Barr's Gripping Novel, Blind Desent, Explores More than Lechuguilla Cave 464
New Discoveries in Lechuguilla Cave 165
New Exploder Round File Guidelines 509
New Pit, A 476
New Year, New Caves 268
New Zealand Caving 323
Noncommercial Cave 16
Northernmost Cave Doesn't Go...Yet 256
Not Another Cave 18
NSS Leisure Section 494

Ohio Caving 175
Old Cavers Never Die 454
Onondaga Valentine 498
Oregon Archeological Society and Caves, The 373
Our Garden of Eden: Sinks by the Sugarbush and Peggy Hole 167
Owl Canyon Cave 49

Pebbles 480
Pecan Cave 42
Per-Severance Cave 242
Petes Crawl at Powells Cave 227
Petra: A City That Used the Underground Environment to Good Advantage 367
Pico Cave 238
Pigeon Mtn Ridge Walk & Rattlesnake 81
Pink Slip Given to Lime the Rock at Millie's Office 517
Pit of Desire, The 505
Polje Camotera Project 319
Polygamy Mapping Trips 231
Post-Memorial Day Trip 261
Private Mining of Kingston Saltpeter Cave, 1861-62, The 363
Problems and Solutions 390
Pud Holin, Piddlin, and Poison Ivy 77

Ramsey Mill Spring Cave 33
Rapan Cave and A# Minor Cave 22
Rattlesnake Cave or Hell's Half Acre Cave 103
Reaction to Cave Conservation Begins With You and Me 393
Recipe for Johnathan 490
Red Bud Cave Trip (Viagra Falls) 215
Redmond Creek Cave 149
Reply: Do You Consider Yourself a Caver 386
Return to the San Juans 64
Rim Rock Caves Clean-up 188
Roller Coaster Cave 136
Room, The 474
Rosanna Cave 127
Roundabouts, Redirects and Rebelays 291
Russian Ski Jump Cave 16

San Francisco Bay Chapter Flashback 342
Seven Roses 497
Sewer Cave: The Basics 160
Shhhhhh! Bats Wintering 396
Shy Horse Hides in Cave 460
Silver Watch, The 479
Sinuous System 24
Slam! 504
Slide Show 493
Sloans Valley Cave System and the Pulaski County Landfill, The 388
Small Caves 187
So You Want to Lead a Cave Trip 424
Solo vs. Team Diving in Caves 477
Sorry Story of Andys Apology Pit, The 134
Spaced Caver's Musings 488
Speleological Potential of Kamchatka Oblast 406
Spiffy New Cave, A 260
Spring Creek Area Spring Flows 419
Stalactitic Stewart 514
State Road 60 Cave 114
Stinky Bone Cave Discovered 183
Stone Wolf 478
Strontium Mines and Ain't No Catchment Cave: History of a Mine Exploration of a Cave 344
Sublime Cave 177
Sucking Mud and Squirrel Brains 143
Survey and Exploration of Ka'eleku Caverns, The 88
Survey of Colorado's Quartzite Caves, The 67
Survey Points: Goings On Undergound in New Jersey 164
Surveying Key in Extending Narrows Cave 52
Swildons Hole 290

Tale of the Sibylline Books, The 501
Tales from Will's Back Porch 345
Talus Finds During the 1998 Vermont Fall NRO 239
Tempest Cave 122
Texas Rangers Go Caving 341
Thailand and Laos 338
The Crump Burial Cave 377
The Discovery of Birthday Cave 301
The Main Trou Des Perdus System 276
The Royal Dream Trip 51
Thoughts on Cavin' 511
Through the Alluvium 161
Time Well Passed Away 469
Timmmberr! 493
To a Friend Who Quit Caving 461
Top 10 Worst Things About Mexican Caving 500
Top Ten Signs You're a Sorry-Assed Caver 501
Train Soot, Bones, and Bears 219
Tribute to Grandpa Jones, A 522
Trip to Jamaica 300
Truth, The 490
TT Cave 138
Two Bridge Cave 80
Two Lick Run Cave 261

Uhll Be Cold Cave 173
Underground Chemistry Classroom, An 462
Underground Oasis of Abu Jirfan, The 328
Ursus Cave 18

Van Meter Cave (New Tripler Cave) 126
Vancouver Island Again 277
Viva Silva 22

War Eagle Cavern 35
Watch Out: Grabby Hole! 513
We Came We Saw Cave 13
We Must Fight Ecoworld's SAP Demonstration Project 520
Weaver Cave 112
W'Estwing 479
What Goes Around Comes Around 457
What's in the Bag? 427
When to Leave the Cave 426
Why Cats Make Good Cavers 517
Wiley Cave 115
Williams/Tri-State Cave Dug Open 241
Women of Carlsbad Caverns, The 365

You Might Be Considered a Bad-Ass Caver If... 501