1999 Speleo Digest

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1999 Speleo Digest

Edited by Scott A. Parvin

1999 Article Title Index

12 Million and 72 493
1975-1998 Visitation at Glove Cave 295
1997 Swartz Canyon Project Update 129
1998 Sonora Restoration Project 301

A Behavioral Key to Missouri Bats 407
A Cavers' Cookbook 490
A Cavers' Day In The Marbles 492
A Cavers History of Fox Mountain 302
A Caver's Prayer #2 472
A Comparison of Simultaneous and Sequential Closure Adjustment Methods 351
A Creep Called Zig Zag 132
A Decade of Mud Movement 419
A Few More Definitions 500
A Giant Miracle 384
A Hot Day's Survey of Five Douglas County Caves 152
A Jolly Cave Report 292
A Return to Surprise Cave in the San Juan Mountains 76
A Very Grotto Christmas 502
A Visit to Cave Basin 77
Achilles Heel Cave 23
After The Survey Trip 358
An 1812 Obituary of Cave Hermit Amos Wilson 455
An Ode To The Caver Before Me 477
An Unpublished Visit To Mammoth Cave, in 1883 452
Another Fayette Find 201
Antioch Cave 297
Arabica Cave 43
Are They Still Growing? Speleothem Growth in Colorado's Groaning Cave 421
Ask Dr. Biner 528

Back From The Depths 518
Basketball Sea Cave 55
Bat Dancers 528
Bats to Cats 498
Batteries -- In Depth 310
Benjamin F. Einbigler, Pioneer Explorer of Mammoth Cave 446
Bible Passages for Cavers 451
Biological Contamination of Lechuguilla Closes Underground Campsite 398
Bits of History Under the City 448
Blowing Spring Cave 52
Bottle Cave 92
Bottomless Wet Surprise Cave 19
Brad's Crack 233
Breaking Rock with Plug and Feather 313
Breakout in Lechuguilla Cave 165
Buher Cave 111
Burn Out 358

Carbide Knickers Cave 29
Cave 501
Cave Crickets 484
Cave Man 501
Cave Photography Made Easy (Easier?) 341
Cave Searching 524
Cave Survey Software 359
Cave Radio Use at Ellison Cave 316
Caves and Cameras 342
Caves and Chasms at Hobbitland 160
Caves and Karst in Waianae Regional Park 88
Caves in the Chol Oral Tradition 458
Caves of Adullam 451
Caves Which Aren't Here Anymore 307
Cavin' Since I Was 8 -- Two Pals Head for the Hills! 520
Caving 101: In Praise of Armchair Caving 503
Caving Down Under 261
Caving Fiend 481
Caving in Yucatan on $25 A Day 281
Caving With Our Fearless Leader 521
Chaffe Mountain #1 Cave Discovered 240
Charting the Depths of Garrison Cave 146
Cheap (?) Helmets 314
Ciricahua Crystal Cave 47
Clay Pit No.2 and Clay Pit No.3 253
Clicks/Becks Mill Cave 108
Closure of Neversink: For Immediate Release 469
Cold End 478
Confederate Guns and Gold: The Discovery and Exploration of Lost Canyon Cave 82
Cosmic Cave Quotes 467
Cow-A-Bunga 518
Crosley Lake Diversion and Cobblestone Cave 116
Cross Bones Cave 171
Crystal Clear 473
Cuba Cave 119
Cueva de la Puente 270
Cutler Sea Cave 144

Dailey Hollow Cave Discovered 240
Damsel in Distress 503
Daves Dig 126
Dear Dr. Biner 512
Deep Crack Cave 22
Definitely A Cave - Probably Not Owens Cave 254
Designing A New Cave Light 329
Devil's Moth Factory 228
Diary of a Caver in Thailand 406
Digging Is For Me? 176
Disappearing Passages: Caving in the Blind Spot 468
Discovery and Survey of the Anvil Points Claystone Caves 78
Discovery of the Loyalhanna Grotto 205
Dog Gone! 106
Doing The Things No One Else Wants to Do, Part One: Roomy Cave 162
Dressing for your Cave Trip 315
Drowned Cave 201

Eden Underground 527
El Capitan Cave 38
El Picorete 272
El Tarillal 282
Expedition to the Cave of Piedra Negras 267
Exploration in the State of Hidalgo 273
Exploration of Sub Stream Cave and Little Liby Cave 85
Exploring the Lost World of Taylor Park 71

Fairy Cavers Doing the Huss Hole: Modern Exploration in Colorado's Fairy Cave 72
Find It, Buy It, Protect It, and Enjoy It! 305
First One Down 498
Fishing Creek Cave (Hendeson Cave) 118
Floods Pond Cave 144
Formation Spotlight I 414
Formation Spotlight II 415
Fountain Cave 227
Fungal Grotto 28

Gallmeiers Cave 126
Garrison's Rimstone Puzzle Mastered 150
Gear Grabber Grotto Finally Mapped 203
Glenwood Caverns Has a Rich, Colorful History 446

Hanging Devilfish of Doom Cave 20
Harness Hang Pathology 378
Hayes Hollow Pit 113
Hellsinky Cave 41
Hey Guys, The Water's Rising 343
High Praise Indeed 528
Hole 52 Cave 38
Homestead and Swimminghole Cave - Area Geology 424
Homestead Cave 180
Hornaday's Catacombs 225
Horner's Headwall Cave 256
How To Get Histo - A Case Study 402
How To Go Caving Blind 386
Huling Run Cave 203
Hurricane Ridge Incident 348

I Need a Wetsuit 462
In The Womb of the Earth I Learned 515
Incident at Dog Pit, A Rescue Report 463
Infamous Quotes 464
Interfacing the Garmin GPS II+ with a Personal Computer 333
Into the Airblower - and Beyond! 530
Introduction to Cave Paleontology 429

Jewel Cave Four Day Camp Trip 213
Junior Pit (Festering Flesh Pit) 257

Kahiku Pele Cave 94
Kens Kave 174
Key Factors To Look For When Searching For Evidence of Early Man in Georgia Caves 392
Kibbles and Bights 460
Kibbles and Bights 519
Kids Cave 248
Kitchen Rock Cave 114
Know Exactly Where You Are - Most of the Time 331
Kong Keeps Cranium Comfy 318

Laurel Furnace Lair 200
Lava Tubes Below the Milepost 82 Viewpoint at Kiholo Bay 94
Lechuguilla Cave Joins 100 Mile Club 164
Lechuguilla Cave: LEARN Trip Report 167
Lee School Cave 120
Lethal Injection Cave 24
Light in Lechuguilla 321
Little Sulfur Cave Survey 224
Lobelia Saltpeter Cave Clean-Up 300

Madonna -- Like a Virgin 483
Mammoth Cave Kentucky 435
Middle Town 507
Mighty Fine Cave 93
Milo Washington Memorial Bat Preserve 479
Minors and Caving Trips 348
More Caves of Relay Junction 100
More Caves on Cedar Creek 135
More Discoveries in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, Twin Pit/Sunset Slide Cave 68
Moses Cave 219
Moses Tablets Cave 241
Mount Utsayantha Cave 176
Music in Mammoth Cave 440
My Experience - Caves 522

Nest Trip Report, Project Z Trip Report 245
New Caves on Elk River 134
New Pit Awaits Discovery 225
New York Caving Trip Spawns Pennsylvania Cave Map 198
Newest Bankhead Forest Cave Mapped 13
No Bufferin Cave 21
Now What Do I Do? 381

Oak Hill Pit Cave 115
Ode To The Carbide Lamp 514
Ohio Valley Region Annual Conservation Project: Freeland's Cave Sinkhole Clean-Up 296
Onyx Cave Annex 46
Opps, I Made A Mistake 467
Our World Beneath Us 507

Papoose Cave 58
Passage Profiles Under Northtown Ridge 363
Pencils and Erasers in Caving 362
Permian Shadows 303
Per-Severance Cave Discovery 235
Poem For The Old Man Himself 507
Pompey's Annex Caves 179
Popcorn Cave 216
Population Trends of Indiana Bats in Indiana 394
Pownall Cave Survey 243
Premier Headlamp Modification 323
Product Review: The Headlamp of Many Aliases 319
Proyecto Cheve 1999 - Cueva Charco 285
Psycho Hodag Cave 219

Quest for a Better Electric Caving Light 324

Radon: It's Geographical Distribution 417
Rainy Day Cave 124
Rapelling 101: Getting Down a Rope Without a Lot of Nonsense 369
Rapelling 101: Using a Bobbin Descender 370
Rapelling 101: Using an Open Frame Rack 372
Raw Deal With The Devil 376
Rebuttal: Simultaneous Versus Sequential Loop Closure 354
Red Hills and Gypsum Caves 137
Redemption/Mossy Fern Caves 103
Renee Cave 44
Repairing Nylon Coveralls 317
Report On An Expedition To Explore and Map Caves and Karst Features in the Kook Lake, Basket Bay Drainage of the Kennel Creek Limestone 26
Report on Tufa Shelters in Creve Coeur County Park 417
Results From Biological Surveys of Eight Caves in Walker and Dade Counties, Georgia 399
Return To Coyote 208
Return to Cuba: NSS Expedition 1998 264
Return to the Laudromat 504
Revolution in Lighting 322
Rime Disease Alert 489
Robbinston Sea Caves 141
Rocky the Rotten Racoon (A Nasty Story) 488
Rope Centering On A Narrow Rack 383

Scorpion Cave 91
Secret No More 513
Secret of the Cellar 258
Secrets I was Never Told 379
Sensations 492
Sequoya Cave 112
Several Kona-Area Tubes 98
Sewing Awl Tips 380
Shadows Moving 513
Sights Unseen Downunder 386
Silence of the Cams 384
Sinuous System 41
Snakes, Scrapes, and Surveying: The Story of Cascade Cave 14
Some Further Observations About the Hydrology, Geology, and Speleogenisis of the Garrison Cave Area 427
Some New Hampshire Cave Maps 161
Sotano de Amezcua 283
Sotano del Aire 344
Sounding Cave 221
Speculation Cave 250
Speleo-Theology: A Parable 519
Spieleologist 529
Spruce Pit 30
Standardized Cave Report 476
Staying Out of the Rockfall Zone 375
Steel Wheel Well: New Cave on Pigeon Mountain 87
Stiver Ranch 229
Storm of the Century Ravages Williams Canyon, Caves 298
Strangford Cave 192
Stream Cliff Farm Cave 128
Subterra 482
Subtleties in Cave Discovery and Research 422
Sunshine 504
Surveying the Rock Ring Tubes 96
Suunto Compass Holding Methods 350
Swimminghole Cave 186

Tales From A Novice Pit Bouncer or A "Virgin" No More 490
Tales From The Mammoth Cave Gazetteer 457
Taylor Park Exploration, The Park Cone Caves 69
Tecoman Project 274
Test Your Knowledge of Karst Topography in Virginia 425
Texas, Cave Archaeology, and You 391
The Acquisition of Neversink 289
The Bankhead National Forest 17
The Biggest Caver 496
The Binkley Cave Project 403
The Bretz River Shuffle 513
The Call of a Cave 511
The Case Against Frank: A Guest Editorial 480
The Cave Dance 511
The Caver Song 524
The Caver Who Hates Sinks of Gandi 524
The CMI Expedition Ascender 382
The Discovery of a New Wind Cave Lake 206
The Discovery of Chock Stone Cave 238
The Drive 525
The Eastern Woodrat 403
The Eveready Extension 139
The Exploration and Survey of Settlers Cave 105
The Fish, The Crawfish, and I 472
The Frosted Caver 525
The Glowworm Cave Story 217
The Great Peters Sink Adventure 190
The High Caves of Colorado 77
The History of Hat Creek Caves 59
The Inquisition - Petzl Tibloc Ascender 378
The June Day 508
The Last Best Place 158
The Life of a Cave 423
The Lone Caver 517
The Loose Tube Blues 514
The Man 466
The Mapping of James Cave 246
The Newest Cave in Texas: Bullock's Dam Pit 232
The Origin and Use of the Natural Gas at Manitou, Colorado 408
The Pit 523
The PVC Battery Case 311
The Return of the Biggest Caver 497
The Rhyme of the Ancient Manley's (Waterhole) 481
The Search for Hunters Cave 436
The Skull-Knox Cave System 169
The Smell Well Project 16
The Survey of Mystery Mud Cave 57
The Waters of Jester Cave 523
The Wife of a Caver 493
Three Riverside Caves at Fort Springs 255
Tongass Cave Project '99, Kosciusko Island Project Part I 31
Tongass Cave Project '99, Kosciusko Island Project Part II 32
Top 100 Caving Movies of All Time 470
Top Ten Reasons NOT To Cave Solo 506
Top Ten Reasons To Cave Solo 506
Top Ten Reasons Why Turtles Make Great Cavers 477
Top Ten Signs That You Are An Anal Retentive Caver! 468
Top Ten Signs You're a Lard Ass Caver 507
Top Ten Things to Give a Caver for Cavemas! 516
Top Ten Ways That Being On The EOC Survey Team Is Like Being On Columbus' Voyage 514
Trail One Cave 112
Trapped in Hurricane Ridge 346
Tubin in the North State 64
Tucker Lake Again: Stinkin' Cave 115
Turtle Shell Cave 110
Twas the Day of TAG 499
Two 1999 Adirondack Talus Finds 178
Two Small Tucker Lake Caves 124
Tytoona Cave Vandalism 308

Udder Disaster Cave 223
Underground Fireworks 349
Unexpected Exploration 113
Union Soldiers Names in Sheldon Cave, Alabama 439
Upon The Occasion of Neversink 527
Urban Caving 449
Useful Caving Terms 499
Using a Miner's Carbide Lamp for Caving 325
Using the Garmin GPS II+ CD-ROM Based Maps 335

Vanishing Lakes and Twisted Stone 156
Virgin Cave in Black Hills Caverns 210

Wagonshed Cave 53
Westmoreland County Cave Number 328: Ryan's Fissure 197
What is Cave Conservation? 295
What Kind of Doctor Are You? 511
Where Have All The Sawflies Gone Cave 24
Why Is My Car So Filled With Crap? 529
Wild Cat Hollow Pit 252
Will The Real Labyrinth Cave Please Stand Up? 64
Willow Valley Cave 127
Wind Cave National Park Caves 212
Wookey Hole: Commercial Caving in England 266
Words to Live By: A Caver's Motto 502

X Files At Williams Talc Mines 242

Y2 Cave 509
Yellowjacket Cave and More 61