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HOOVER-MAMMOTH CONNECTION! 2 CRF NEWSLETTER Alpine Karst 2004, Volume 1 Volume 33, No.3 established 1973 Editor: Tina Oliphant Send all articles and reports for submission to: Copy editor: Red Watson William Payne, Editor $16.00 5213 Brazos, Midland, TX 79707-3161 The first issue of Alpine Karst was published The CRF Newsletter is a quarterly publication of the thirty years ago as a mimeograph newsletter. It was Cave Research Foundation, a non-profit organization limited to 100 copies, had 32 pages and was mailed incorporated in 1957 under the laws of Kentucky for the out in the summer of 1975. A second issue of35 pages purpose of furthering research, conservation, and went out in the winter of 1976. Both issues concen­ education about caves and karst. trated on alpine caving in Montana with a few articles Newsletter Submissions & Deadlines: about alpine caving in other parts of the U.S. These Original articles and photographs are welcome. If intending early issues contained some maps but no photographs. to jointly submit material to another publication, please in­ In the summers of 1977 and 1978 two more issues form the CRF editor. Publication cannot be guaranteed, espe­ were put out by Jim Chester and Ron Zuber. These cially if submitted elsewhere. All material is subject to revi­ sion unless the author specifically requests otherwise. For issues both raised the quality of the newsletter tremen­ timely publication, please observe these deadlines: dously. They included cover black and white photo­ graphs and numerous photographs and maps inside. February issue by December 1 They were also much larger at 48 and 64 pages respec­ May issue by March 1 tively and they expanded the coverage of Alpine Karst August issue by June 1 to areas outside of the United States. November issue by September 1 Now comes the best Alpine Karst publication yet! Before submitting material, please see publication Published in late 2004 it quickly sold out and went guidelines at: www.cave-research org into a second printing. With a color cover, many black & white photographs, fold out maps, twenty five arti­ NEWSLETTER STAFF: cles, 130 pages, and over twenty different authors this Content Editor: William Payne, w book is a must for any caver who has ever been inter­ Layout and Photos: Ralph Earlandson, ested in the exploration and study of Alpine Karst ar­ eas anywhere in the world. Mailing: Bob Hoke, Includes 13 articles about the exploration of Mon­ ©2005 Cave Research Foundation tana caves; also stories from Austria, Canada, Califor­ Cave Research Foundation Board of Directors nia and Utah. Also included are: Ultra-light Single President - Chris Groves, Rope Techniques for Alpine Caving, Colorado's High­ Treasurer - Roger Smith, est Caves, and Breakthrough Alpine Caving Wetsuit. Secretary - Pat Seiser, t Alpine Karst is a publication of the Alpine Karst Hamilton Valley Director - Pat Kambesis Foundation, a non profit corporation incorporated in Peter Bosted, Mick Sutton, Joel Despain, Montana (www.alpinekarst.org). Rick Toomey, Richard Maxey, Bernie Szukalski

Operations Council COVER PHOTO: Barbe Barker (Guadalupes), Scott House (Ozarks), Janet Sowers (Lava Beds), Dave West (Eastern), Hoover Cave has recently been connected into the John Tinsley (SequoialKings Canyon) Mammoth Cave System, through Wildcat Dome in the Hobbit Trail East area of Roppel Cave. The cover For information about the CRF contact: photo, taken by Gary Berdeaux, shows a gypsum curl Dr. Chris Groves in Katie Jane Way of Hoover Cave. The connection Hoffman Environmental Research Institute story, including other photos by Gary Berdeaux, be­ Department of Geography and Geology gins on page 6. Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101, phone 270-745-5201 Donations to CRF should be sent to: Roger K. Smith, Jr., CRF Treasurer 3669 Singleton Terrace Frederick, MD 21704

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New Cave Gate at Cathedral Cave (Buzzard Cave) By Shari and Preston Fonythe

This cave is located behind and below the Floyd actually saw a Pip go through the new gate. Rick Ol­ Collins Home in the cliff line directly above Pike son said that approximately 150 Rafmesque Bats use Spring on the Green River. In March, 2005, the Mam­ Cathedral Cave during the summer months along with moth Cave Restoration Group hauled steel down to the a few Pips. cave in preparation for the CRF April Expedition bat Stan Sides gave us the following information on cave gate project. Rick Olson coordinated the project Cathedral Cave: The original name for the cave was and Dave West and Pat Kambesis helped with the Buzzard Cave. After L. P. Edwards at Great Onyx planning to get the CRF support we needed. Roy Pow­ began advertising Great Onyx as being electricity lit, ers and his assistant Will Whiteside constructed the by a Delco generator, Dr. H. B. Thomas ran a single gate. electrical line to Buzzard Cave. You can still see one On Saturday April23rd we worked from 9:30 a.m. or two of the power poles. He advertised Floyd Collins to 8 p.m. Glenn Ridgeway, Preston Forsythe, and Rick Crystal Cave, and added you could see an electrically Olson traded off using the cutting torch. Glenn put in lit cave for free! Buzzard Cave was renamed Cathedral many back breaking hours measuring and cutting the Cave. You would walk down to Cathedral Cave and steel, but he sometimes let Preston and Rick relieve walk in a short distance for free to the glare of several him for awhile. Anne Elmore took photos of the entire bulbs, but only after you had first purchased a ticket to job. It was interesting listening to Roy talk about all Crystal Cave - which was not electrically lit. This was of the gates he had built. Over the two-day project 25 in the late 1920's and early 1930's, but long before the cavers from CRF, Dave Foster, and a friend from the rural electrification program brought power to the re­ ACCA, as well as Mike Beer, a long time park volun­ gion. teer, were on hand to do whatever was asked of them. The following cavers participated: Rick Olson, Roy On Sunday we worked from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the Powers, Will Whiteside, Preston Forsythe, Shari gate was completed. The gate is approximately 6 feet Forsythe, Glenn Ridgeway, Anne Elmore, Dave West, wide by 7 feet tall with a couple of pieces of steel ex­ Karen Willmes, Joyce Hoffmaster, Gary Collins, Mike tending 12 feet to one side to block the passage. This Crockett, Alan Wellhausen, Gordon Birkheimer, Boris is a "state of the art" bat gate and the design is ap­ Hysek, Cheryl Pratt, Andrea Croskrey, Dan Henry, proved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Alicia Henry, Bill Baus, Jimbo Helton, Karen Cald­ Let me tell you, this was real work. Everything well, Thor Bahrrnan, Bill Wilder, Dave Foster, an had to be carried down the scenic, sometimes steep ACCA friend, Mike Beer and Cherie McCurdy. trail that we thought the Collins family built to take tourists down to the cave. It was not easy carrying all Collins Crystal Cave Ticket Office, April 2005 of the oxygen and acetylene tanks, two Miller welders, The National Park Service is working on the Crys­ welding leads, a generator, the very long and heavy tal Cave Ticket Office. An I-beam has been inserted cables for the generator, a 5 gallon gas can, tool boxes under the building and work is in progress rebuilding and more down the hill to the cave entrance. It was the 1920 style wrap-around porch with treated wood. even harder carrying everything back up at the end of As much of the original wood as possible, especially the job. One unused piece of 4 inch wide angle steel cedar posts, will be reused. Drainage work uphill of 3/8" thick by 20 feet long had to come back up. We the ticket office is designed to solve the main problem cut that in half. Many people stayed around until the of the old building. Historic pictures of the office show gate was completed and everyone helped haul all of it once was high off the ground, but poor drainage over the gear and equipment up the hill to the vehicles. It the years under filled the building until the porch and was a great group effort and it would have been very foundation were rotting on the ground. No major difficult without all ofthe support. work is scheduled on the Collins Home this year ac­ Now, the Rafinesque Bats can enjoy the cave un­ cording to a park maintenance person. Work was done disturbed by occasional canoeists on the Green River on the Floyd Collins Home roof last year. or hikers from the Dennison Ferry Day Use Area. We 4

Cathedral Cave Gating Project Photos by Shari and Preston Forsythe

Carrying down the generator to the entrance. Left to right: Preston Forsythe, Rick Olson, Boris Hysek a/Chi­ cago, Gary Collins, Will Whiteside (RoyPowers' welding partner).

Left: Roy Powers takes a turn at welding the gate on Cathedral Cave. Right: Roy Powers and Rick Olson work on the gate on Cathedral Cave. 5

Hoover Connection By James Wells

At five minutes to midnight on March 19th, 2005, yon was mapped by BiII Koerschner and Dick Market a group of cave explorers from the Cave Research to a pit caIIed Papa-Bear Pit. Dick Market led an aid Foundation (CRF) and Central Kentucky Karst Coali­ climb up the far side of the pit which led to walking tion (CKKC) connected the surveys of Hoover Cave to passage for a few hundred feet to a narrow, blowing the Mammoth Cave system. crack. Hoover Cave was discovered in September, 2003, In 2004, several planned Hoover trips were by Alan Canon and James WeIIs. An epic mapping washed out due to rain. Instead, crews climbed and trip the next day by Dick Market, James WeIIs, John mapped leads in the area of Hobbit Trail and the S Feil, and Seamus Decker took the survey from the Survey in Roppel, as these areas were close to poten­ entrance for 150 stations and 2500 feet through Athena tial connection points such as Three Bears Canyon. Trail, consisting of various crawls and canyons, to a One climb near Wildcat Dome led to 1180 feet of pas­ walking passage, Katie Jane Way. This passage ap­ sage and a near-connection, but ended in breakdown. pears to be the upstream continuation of Yahoo Ave­ On another front, a low crawl off Arlie Way was nue in Roppel Cave, part of the Mammoth Cave sys­ pushed by several crews to another near-connection, so tem. While not quite a large trunk passage, Katie Jane close that crews in Hoover and Roppel were easily Way was just right for exploring and mapping, being able to establish a sound connection through hammer mostly walking passage with very little breakdown. taps during a September, 2004, Hoover photo-trip. Katie Jane Way was mapped for over seven thou­ On March 19,2005, a crew of Alan Canon, John sand feet in three subsequent trips, but to the west Feil, Dick Market and James WeIIs went in with high ended in breakdown without connecting to Roppel­ hopes, this being the first mapping trip in Hoover in Mammoth. A side passage named Three-Bears Can- over a year. The cave was known to be within 100 feet of Roppel in the upper level beyond Papa-Bear Pit, and this was the primary objective. At the beginning of Three-Bears Canyon, Alan and James started to map Three-Bears Canyon to the south while John and Dick went to look at the narrow, blowing crack past Papa-Bear Pit. The passage be­ came narrow, but continued weII enough, until Alan and James bagged the survey by design after 22 sta­ tions to go find the others, leaving a going lead. At Papa-Bear Pit, James and Alan waited just a few minutes until John appeared at the top of the far drop. He and Dick had opened the blowing crack and descended to walking passage, which went 150 feet to the top of a drop into a large dome. This was very likely one of the big domes in Hobbit Trail East, in Roppel. Okay, time for a little math. The 150-foot rope in Papa Bear Pit went down one side, wiggled around the floor, and then went back up the other side. Ifwe cut off everything lying on the ground, leaving both sides of the pit rigged, would it be enough? Dick and John were not so sure. Should we puII a rope behind us, which would cut us off from any rescue? This was not the greatest habit. We just had to make sure we had enough rope. Leaving just enough rope for the near (Hoover En­ trance) side climb up the pit, Alan cut his rope, and he Bill Walter and James Wells in Katie Jane Way, Sep­ and Dick puIIed it up after everyone was up the far tember 2004. Photo by Gary Berdeaux. side. Meanwhile John and James scurried along to 6

start the survey. After we mapped down the climb After mapping a side passage to get a little more below the crack and a few stations along, the riggers done, we all rapped down into Wildcat Dome and set passed the mappers with a big bundle of rope. Surely about searching for a Roppel station. The old W17 that would be enough. from 1983 was located and tied in . At that, we added James and John arrived at the pit after nineteen 360 miles to the Hoover Cave system, which is now stations to find the pit rigged. Dick was equipped, estimated to be 362.5 miles long. since he had been hanging out setting bolts at the lip of Although Hoover Cave now connects to the Mam­ the drop. He got on rappel and descended. We lis­ moth Cave system, the entrance is a very long under­ tened. ground travel distance from Mammoth Cave National "Guard Rail!" Park, and the entrance cannot reasonably be used to A joke, no doubt, evocative of the 1972 connec­ gain access to any parts of the cave system that are tion where the crew came to a guard rail of a tourist within the park. trail. We knew there were no guard rails, nor real To date, the Hoover Cave project participants tourist trails, in this part of Roppel. "Come on Dick, have been: Gary Berdeaux, Jim Borden, Shanna Bor­ stop fooling! Where are you?" den, Ann Bosted, Peter Bosted, Tom Brucker, Alan "Wildcat Dome!" Canon, Jim Currens, Seamus Decker, John Feil, Bill "Are you sure?" Koerschner, Dick Market, Ryan Moran, Tony Pugh, "YES!!!" Bill Stephens, Bill Walter, James Wells, and Peter Wildcat Dome, in the Hobbit Trail East area of Zabrok. Roppel Cave. We had found the connection!

The photos 011 this page show gypsum flowers in Katie Jane Way. Hoover Cave. By Gary Berdeaux. 7

I REGIONAL EXPEDITION REPORTS I

Trip to Mores Branch Cave, Taney County by Ben Miller

Mores Branch Cave is a wilderness cave located rigged fIrst and then the survey completed, so that all in Taney County, Missouri on USFS land. We had potential hazards were known, and dealt with, from originally stumbled onto the report of this cave in the the start. MSS cave files while doing work for the Taney We dropped down the fIrst small 13 foot drop County Cave Snail Project for CRF. The report caught and then slid under a small ledge, and entered an our attention by the fact that the cave was said to be elongated room about 40 feet long, 15 feet wide and 100 feet deep and have a 30-meter pit located inside varying from 3-9 feet in height. Just inside the cave the cave. A 30-meter pit inside a cave in Missouri is a was a small slumped-in spot where a very narrow pretty unusual thing as we had recently seen in Brock crack led down into blackness - this was not hu­ Cave in Barry County where a supposed 39-meter pit manly enterable. Just past this we climbed over a turned out to be much closer to 39 feet deep. But it flowstone dome and a much more dramatic and deep was in a scenic area so we decided to attempt the cave, depression was reached. Ifwe looked down this at as any chance to do vertical caving in Missouri is rare the correct angle it was possible to see that indeed and almost always interesting. this was a very deep hole. But since the pit looked The fIrst time we attempted to map the cave was so tight, we decided to check the rest of the cave for during the fIrst week of January 2005. When we woke any other possibilities. the morning of the trip it was downpour conditions By crawling through a small hole on the left outside. However we persevered and decided to still underneath some flowstone, another medium sized give it a shot, banking on the fact that the cave should room was reached, which had some nice large stalag­ be high up on a ridge and relatively dry (or so we mites. These appeared to be untouched, but like the thought). We arrived at the trailhead with packs amply fIrst room any draperies or stalactites available had loaded down with vertical gear and ropes. We suc­ been vandalized, supposedly removed many years ceeded in making the 3-mile trek to the area where the before for a local's flfeplace. No pit was found in the cave was supposed to be located and with some mod­ last room so we started to rig the tight drop in the erate amount of searching found the pit entrance. The flfSt room. Unlike most Missouri pits, this one was a pit was indeed up higher on the hill but with the 4.5 surprisingly easy rig off of some large dry columns inches of rain we were receiving, the pit had several located off the side of the pit. strong rivulets of water running directly into the Andy thought that he might take the flfSt try at pit. We were prepared for polypro and jeans caving, the pit. As Andy started down he noted that the pit and this clearly was going to need more than we was deeper than we had originally thought, as more had. It was decided amongst everyone that the of the drop came into view. He also reached a hei­ conditions were such that there was no conceivable nous squeeze about 15-20 feet down. This squeeze way to stay warm and survey the cave. So we took our was vertical and only about 10-11 inches. Normally entrance photos along with GPS locations, and turned if this had been horizontal it would pose no real around and started back in frustrated defeat. The cave problem, but when bulky vertical gear is added to the gods were not smiling on us that day and before they equation it makes the squeeze nearly impassable. relented we hiked an additional 1.5-2 miles out of our There were two possible holes that would allow ac­ way on the return hike. cess; Andy had been attempting to go through the It was this dubious defeat that caused Andy Lerch hole on the right side of the pit to no avail. He came and me to return a month later to once again attempt back up stating that it was a little unnerving down this cave. We were loaded down with vertical gear in there and wanted me to try it, yippee.. . So, I got on much heavier packs, as we had lost a member of our rope and started down to the super-squeeze. My fIrst original crew and thus lost a sherpa. The hike only try was futile, getting me wedged almost immedi­ took an hour this time as we hiked directly to the cave ately. I got myself out of this and decided to attempt entrance. The weather also cooperated this time, al­ the hole to the left, which actually appeared lowing for amazing views on both sides of the trail. At smaller. I was able to get much further down this the cave, conditions were quite different too; the cave time but was still getting wedged in by my chest entrance this time was bone-dry and very negotia- ascender and rappel device. I decided to take the ble. It was decided earlier that the cave should be chest ascender off for the time being and then at- 8 tached my Stop to my short cows tail, thereby extend­ a true, accurate survey of the pit and get the depth of ing the rappel device up to my shoulders and giving the cave. Shooting a couple of splays, we quickly fm­ my hips much needed space. This time I was able to ished up the iower portions of the pit. One of the more slowly make it through the squeeze and into a highly interesting features was that the flowstone, gravel, and decorated chamber just below the squeeze. This clay fill all had hundreds oftiny bones scattered about "chamber" was created by a very large column, 3 feet as well. One rimstone pool on a big spattermite con­ thick and 12 feet tall, which had formed along tained a pile of very small bones nearly 3 inches deep with several other stalagmites to make a false floor collected in the center. As I finished up sketching, with 2 dark menacing holes leading through to the Andy climbed up to the large ledge 25 feet off the main body of the pit. As I dropped through the false floor to check out the possible side passage. Surpris­ floor the passage immediately opened into a large ingly it went, so I fmished up drawing and headed on domed pit close to 70 feet tall, forty feet lengthwise up to survey this new side. To reach this side passage and about 15-18 feet wide. Waterfalls could be heard it was necessary to get off rope at a large ledge and splattering onto each of the four very large spatter­ then skirt around the edge of a big orange spatter­ mites on the floor. As I slowly rappelled into this mite. This movement had to be even more careful great pit, pristine grayish-white flowstones began to after noticing a snake skeleton exposed and partially appear on the walls of the dome, one of these being encased in flowstone. After shooting into the passage nearly 45 feet from top to bottom. The further I rap­ I had a chance to get my bearings and was astounded pel led down the pit the nicer the view became. I by the beauty I was completely surrounded by. Pure passed what appeared to be a side passage, coming in white flowstone coated nearly everything in sight, about 25 feet off the base level of the pit. As I reached small drip pools on the floor contained cave pearls in the bottom I shouted up to Andy to let him know I was abundance, and the passage height had gone from 5 still alive and that I was going to look around a lit- feet to 45 feet as well. Climbing up a few rock ledges tle. As I got off rope I dropped down a ledge and we reached an even more pristine area where we were skirting another beautiful spattermite made my way forced to never touch the floor due to the delicate na­ down to what appeared to be a passage. A small rivu­ ture of the passage. By chimneying a few feet up we let of water comhined from all of the waterfalls and passed more pale gray spattermites and entered what made a tiny stream that flowed down slope and into we would call the Rimstone Realm. Throughout this this apparent passage. With dreams of another pit, area the floor is covered by white rimstone dams that with this stream cascading over the lip, I made my way appear fuzzy from the large amount of pool spar coat­ into the side only to discover that it entered a joint ing them. Cave pearls 2 inches in diameter were also much too small for any human entry, a bitter reality noted in this area. This allied up to a dome 45 feet tall check that we were indeed in Missouri. One unique which had a white rimstone covered spattermite thing about the alcove was the fact that the walls were roughly 6 feet across, which had rimstone terraces out entirely coated in upturned directional popcorn point­ to the walls. The passage for us ended here but a pos­ ing up the dome. So maybe there is more cave some­ sible passage was noticed another 20 feet up where the where that is just inaccessible to us. Discovering that largest column in the cave, 4 feet thick and 15 feet tall, the dome did not seem to go, I went back to the rope resides. We did not attempt to climb up to this, as we and yelled up to Andy that I was going to come part­ were worried for any possible damage we might create way back up the drop to get survey gear to try and by accidentally knocking down rocks or materials/mud somehow solo-survey this magnificent dome. Luckily falling off our boots and onto the flowstone floor. a 20-foot piece of webbing was just long enough for Finishing up the survey we headed back out of the Andy to lower the survey gear and tape. Getting the passage and each made our way up to the top of the gear, I changed over and headed back to the base of pit. Surprisingly, the squeeze in the pit was much eas­ the pit. ier going up and turned out for us to be trivial. Arriv­ After completing the one shot Andy could help ing at the top of the pit we fmally had time to sit back with from the top I began to survey the base of the and absorb what all we had just seen and done. The drop and complete the now complex profile. Andy, cave had definitely challenged us but at least rewarded who up to this point had been hearing all the ooohs our efforts. Overall Mores Branch ended up being 118 and aaahs com ing from the pit, decided to give the feet deep with the pit being 85-90 feet. There is a super squeeze another shot. With much grunting and small amount of survey in the upper portion left but cursing Andy finally announced that he had indeed the cave is expected to be around 400 feet long. Hope­ gotten through. He gradually made his way to the base fully this cave will remain in this pristine state with its of the pit and we rejoiced in the magnificent cave we remote location and good "nerd gate" at the squeeze. were in . 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Mammoth Cave: March Expedition, March 18-20, 2005 Expedition Leader: Joyce Hoffmaster

The most notable event of the expedition was the A party returned to the Freedom Hall area to tie connection of Hoover Cave with Roppel. We were up some loose ends and close loops from the survey greeted Sunday morning with a message on the white­ done at Thanksgiving last. They achieved 198 feet of board that read "We hope you have all enjoyed your resurvey. caving trips in the Hoover-Roppel-Mammoth System." Another party went to the St. Mark's area ofRop­ We were also blessed with unseasonably warm pel for a long trip that netted lots offootage. They sur­ weather to end winter (yeah!) and usher in spring. veyed 80 stations before stopping in going walking A total of37 people participated in the expedi­ passage 15 feet high by 6 feet wide. tion. Nine parties were fielded. A total of 1,574 ft of The Hoover party successfully connected to Wild­ resurvey and about 2,700 of new survey were accom­ cat Dome in Roppel. They surveyed 615 feet. plished. A party did an evening trip in Stan's Well to con­ A party of six returned to the Rope and Pits area tinue work in the crawlway beyond Quicksand Dome. of Unknown and split up to polish off Orange Pitty and This was the first expedition I have ever run that I continue resurvey of the Rope Pit Trail. They resur­ can say I enjoyed. Everyone was exceptionally helpful veyed 866 feet and corrected several blunders from and had the initiative to do what needed to be done previous surveys. without being asked to. lowe a special thanks to Carl A party returned to Abo A venue to continue the Tucker for all the great food and Rick Hoechstetter for resurvey for 115 feet. They took the left hand lead at custom omelets for breakfasts. Shirley Fox and Debbie the junction where the previous survey party ended. Holbrook were immense help around camp. Matt Surveying is slow due to narrow convoluted passage Goska was invaluable in figuring out the scanner. Bob containing much popcorn. Ward was wonderfully flexible on the key transfers A party went to the north side of the river to locate and especially when I forgot the radios in the EL of­ Doyle Cave and ridgewalk. They found and surveyed fice. Thanks to Rick Olson and Matt Mezydlo for 2 other small caves for 52 feet of new survey but did helping get the radios back. not get as far as Doyle is marked on the map. They Rope & Pits- Jeffrey Crews, Andy Free, Mike Freeman, Roger noted that the ridges are very steep. McClure, Gregg Holbrook, Steve Ormeroid; Abo Aveoue - Dick A party returned to the area off Silliman's with a Maxey, Amy Crews, Judy Ormeroid, Ann Kensler; North Shore sectional ladder to check a high lead in another attempt Small Caves - Matt Goska, Cheryl Early, Tammy Richardson, to connect with the area where a labeled rock was Janice Tucker; SiDimao Aveoue - Charles Fox, Daniel Greger, Pete Rogers, Randy Schriber; Cruella de ViDe - Pete Zabrok, Peter dropped on a trip at New Year's. The ladder worked Bosted, Heather Levy; Freedom Trail - Bob Lodge, Rick Hoech­ well but the lead soon became too small for anyone on stetter, Chris Hoechstetter; St. Mark's - Bill Koerschner, Matt the party to continue. Mezydlo, Bill Stephens; Hoover Cave - James Wells, John Feil, A party went to Cruella de Ville in Roppel and Dick Market, Alan Canon; Stao's Well- Stan Sides, Gary Berdeaux, Norman Warnell. knocked off several leads in this unappetizing area.

Saltpeter vats on the Historic Tour of Mammoth Cave. Photo by Peter Bosted. 10 2005 EXPEDITION CALENDAR

Before attending any expedition, you must contact the expedition leader as trip sizes may be limited. Failure to contact the leader may prevent you from attending the expedition as the trip may be full.

e Pit. Probably camping at Meramec State Park.

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