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Page 130 Central Indiana Grotto December, 2013 Calendar November 4–8 2013 National Cave and Managemet Symposium at Carlsbad, New Mexico. Information and registration at http://nckmas2013.business catalyst.com/ November 6 Grotto Meeting. 7:30 p.m. World War Memorial. Program to be Ron Adams on the TAG Fall Cave-In (see below). November 12 Open Library night at Bob Vandeventer’s home, 525 Lawndrive Drive, Greenwood. 317-888-4501. November 9 Grotto Trip. Salts Cave, Leader Dave Haun. December 4 Grotto Meeting. 7:30 p.m. World War Memorial. Program to be The Year 2013 In Review– and Caving Across Nine Different Time Zones by Dean Wiseman December 7 Grotto Trip. Eversole Cave and Coon Cave, Leaders Bill Greenwald and Dave Haun. December 14 Grotto Christmas Party. Dave and Susan Strickland’s, 1701 E 45th St, Indianapolis, 7:30 p.m. until its over. 317-253-5395. December 10 Open Library night at Bob Vandeventer’s home, 525 Lawndrive Drive, Greenwood. 317-888-4501. JFebruary 5 Grotto Meeting. 7:30 p.m. World War Memorial. Program to be announced. February 8 Grotto trip, Annual Ron Adams ridgewalk. February 11 Open Library night at Bob Vandeventer’s home, 525 Lawndrive Drive, Greenwood. 317-888-4501. Caving Calendar ...... 119 May 16-18 MVOR. The Exeter Corn Maze. Exeter, Short News and Notes 119 Missouri. http://www.exetercornmaze.com/ Terry Clark ...... 132 Binkley Cave . . . . .133 July 14– 18 NSS National Convention, Huntsville, Alabama. NSS Convention . . .139 Contact Olivia :Liv” McKinsey 678-492-1825. Oct Executive Minutes 140 http://nss2014.caves.org SpeleoLog ...... 140 August 8–10 Tentative Date of Cave Capers. Location to be an- 2013 Index ...... 143 nounced. August, 2015 NSS National Convention, Waynesville, Missouri. July 17–23, 2016 NSS National Convention, Ely, Nevada.

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This Month’s Cover. we will have the traditional “Dirty Santa” gife This Elliot Stahl photo shows Grace Baumann exchange. Bring a gift to get one, around $10 or so. and Matt Kalch in Owaissa Bauer Cave, Florida. Vertical Training January Meeting There may or may not be a vertical training I’m assuming the January meeting will be class in January. I have heard nothing about it. Bill dalayed a week since the first Wednesday is New Greenwald will not be leading it. Year’s Day. Final Newsletter Christmas Party This is the final CIG Newsletter to be produced The grotto Christmas Party will be at Dave and by Greyhound Press. There may or may not be a Susan Strickland’s home. (see above) Once again replacement editor. I have heard nothing about it.

December, 2013 Central Indiana Grotto Page 131 In Memory of Terry Clark By Bill Greenwald

f you even met Terry you would remember him a church member. He said he can’t tell us anything Iand like him. He was the outspoken guy with about the accident and why he died but he can the Amish beard who helped run the Vertical tell us that Terry is defiantly in Heaven. Terry’s workshop at the NSS Conventions every year. favorite Bible verse was Romans 8:38, 39. “For I He would normally show up at Cave Capers and am persuaded, that neither death nor life, neither grotto picnics and always volunteer to help with angels nor demons, neither the present nor the IKC projects and activities. future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, Terry died Wednesday when he was thrown nor anything else in all creation, will be able to from a semi-truck as it was hit by a train. Friday separate us from the love of God that is in Christ night I decided I should take the time to go to the Jesus our Lord.” He said that Terry will not have funeral services on Saturday. They were to be held to go through the process of getting old and feeble at Terry’s home church, the Union Hill General like you and I and that it will take three people to Baptist Church, 6 miles from Corydon, Kentucky. It took me about 3 hours to make it to the church from Indianapolis. The small church was standing-room only for the services and the caravan of vehicles to the Corydon Cemetery was over a mile long; and that was just his friends, family, and church members. I suspect the 21 gun salute to him at the cemetery was heard throughout the town. I counted about four cavers including myself. Richard and Sue Vernier were there and were the ones that gave me directions to the church. They said there were a number of cavers that were at Friday’s showing at the Tomblinson Funeral Home in Henderson, Kentucky. The Pastor, Brother Gary Ashby, of the church said he has known Terry many years as a friend and as

Page 132 Central Indiana Grotto December, 2013 replace him with the work he was doing for the Baptist Church, a Teamster for 27 years, NSS church. Life Member, EMG Member, Kentucky Colonel, If you ask me why I would want to drive all Master Gardener, Friends of Audubon, Sunday that way, I would say this, “Terry was the type of School teacher, song leader, hung quilt blocks for person who would have come to my funeral. He Henderson County Extension Services, and was and Jenny were good friends and good people. He known as Geo-Cache Foghorn 44. and I are the same age and as you get older you will He is survived by his wife of 46 years: Jenny understand better how important good friends are. Clark (Virginia Alderson) of Little Dixie; The caving community and NSS will not be the Daughter, Kim (Clark) Haner and husband Jason same without him and to echo what pastor Gary of Walton, Kentucky; Son, Matthew Clark of said “It’s going to take three people to replace him.” Little Dixie; Brother, David Clark and wife Linda Terry Gale Clark, 69, NSS #36369 RL, FE, of West Frankfort, Illinois; Grandchildren, Lauren of Little Dixie Corydon, Kentucky, passed away and Libby Haner. Wednesday, October 9, 2013. He was born January I gave Jenny, Terry’s wife, a nice card labeled 23, 1944, in West Frankfort, Illinois to the late “With Heartfelt Prayers and Sympathy,” Signed by William and Mildred (McClellan) Clark. He was me and “Your Caving Family and Friends from the an Air Force veteran, attended Union Hill General Central Indiana Grotto.”  September 14, 2013, Binkley Cave Trip Report By Aaron Atz

Introduction move air opposite to the expectations of seasoned I became very interested in Miller Cave in the cavers. A lot of cavers, including me, have proposed late 1990s when Louisville caver James Adler gave a very logical explanation to this oddity: Miller me a copy of Norm Pace’s 1960-ish map of the cave. Cave is BOTH an upper entrance to the cave I was especially interested in it, because it is such below and downstream of it (Blowing Hole), a rarity in Harrison County: a cave with a gaping AND is a lower entrance to the cave passages that swallowhole entrance smack on top of the must lie high above it. It’s therefore not a higher plain. Furthermore, it moves a lot of air, but in a or lower, but a middle entrance to a cave system very mysterious way. In December, 2002 or 2003, with many entrances. We now believe that caves I led Brent Lewis and Kevin Eve on a trip to the (currently known or yet to be discovered) in the left hand passage in upper Miller Cave, and then Crawford Upland outlier ridges located just east down the free-climbable pit. We made it to the of Miller Cave almost surely connect into it either wedged tire that halted exploration below the pit physically, or perhaps only hydrologically and/or until the ISS removed it a decade later, although atmospherically. I did the math back in 2003 or so they could proceed only a few short feet further. and calculated a very impressive depth potential. The temperature that evening was slightly below This calculation assumed that Wilson Pit would 20 degrees Fahrenheit and the entrance sucked connect to Blowing Hole (and that Blowing Hole a very impressive draft of cold air and created was part of Binkley), which is currently the lowest sheets of ice in the entrance area. The known part of the Binkley System. The depth airflow always seemed very strange to cavers, potential was over 300 feet, which would easily because the entrance to Miller Cave is located high shatter the Indiana cave depth record. My second atop the sinkhole plain, and yet airflow-wise it acts trip into Miller Cave was when Dave Black and I did as a lower entrance. It is very known among one survey trip on November 29, 2003. We started cavers that lower entrances blow cool cave air in the at the entrance of the cave, but the remapping summer and suck cold (exterior) air in the winter. project remained far from finished. Based on what Accordingly, upper entrances suck warm or hot air I had seen, it would take a lot more expertise and in the summer and blow cave-temperature air in manpower than I had access to at the time to break the winter, which creates steam vents that can melt through to lower passage in Miller Cave. Roughly snow and make these vents easier to find on winter a decade would go by before Dave Everton and ridge walks. But Miller Cave, as well as many other company appeared and changed the Indiana caving entrances and parts of what is now known to be the scene in a very unprecedented way. Binkley Cave System, have long been observed to

December, 2013 Central Indiana Grotto Page 133 Trip Report close to that. The load of overlying bedrock will This was only my fifth project trip to Binkley tend to keep the fissures narrow (bedding-plane in the past two years. I moved to Bowling Green, partings especially). Removing lots of bedrock Kentucky, in January, 2013, with my wife, Shaden, lets them enlarge by unloading. This idea came and am now two hours away from Corydon. But up in the early 1970s when we were trying to ever since I moved away from Indiana, I have figure out the pattern of Mammoth Cave, and salivated over the weekly trip reports, particularly the same two arguments seemed valid then. In the reports about Miller Cave. So, when the Mammoth the geologic structure had a bigger opportunity recently arose to go there, I jumped at effect, but was apparently not the only effect. the chance. But, each person gets to think up the idea again when puzzling over his own cave. I’m Pre-Cave trip: Speleo-Speculation at sure others have, and will. So yes, I’d give RN’s Frederick’s (Richard Newton’s) idea a nod, especially in a cave such as Binkley, where bedding seems to Tim Pride, Laura Young, and Gary Roberson be a major control on passages, and the bedrock were waiting for me at Frederick’s Café for cover can vary a lot depending on whether breakfast at 10:30 local time. I wolfed down my there’s a ridge, knob, etc. Hope this helps! breakfast while we all chatted about Binkley and Best wishes, speculated about possible answers to the mysteries Art thereof. Gary brought up a very interesting theory that Richard Newton had proposed. From what I The Old Squire Boone Billboard understand, Richard theorized that the sheer mass and Almost Killing Two Cats of thick outlier ridges such as the one immediately east of Miller Cave could influence passage I left Frederick’s, drove to Miller Cave, and development by compacting the stone to the point parked beside the tenant’s house. I noticed the that water solution would “desire” to take place chicken house and small shed that was crafted in less compacted joints. Hence, joints (baby cave from a very ironic building material: pieces of a passages, if you will) located in the sinkhole plain huge, former wooden billboard for Squire Boone would be much more likely to enlarge to bigger Caverns. That’s very ironic, given that Gary helped cave passages if the thickness of the rock directly develop Squire Boone, and that the billboard is near overhead (mass) is thinner than the overlying rock an entrance to the cave Gary recently developed and in the general area. After the trip I contacted world- now owns, Indiana Caverns. While I was changing renowned speleologist, Art Palmer, who is one of clothes, two of the several frisky kittens that live the editors of – Evolution of Karst on the property jumped into my car when I wasn’t , and got an answer about the validity of looking. After I changed clothes, I locked my car and Richard’s theory; here is his response: started heading for the cave. It just so happened that Hi, Aaron. I forgot something, and as I went back to my car, I Yes, there’s some validity to this idea. saw two kittens up in the rear window of my car. There’s a lot of field evidence that passages It’s a good thing that I saw them, or they probably will form preferentially where the rock cover is would have been cooked by the end of the day. Keep thin, although there’s almost as much evidence this in mind if you go caving there, because the cats that suggests that it’s random. Since there are will get into everybody’s cars and could easily be other factors that help to control the direction locked in a car on a hot day or accidentally go home of a passage (dip, strike orientation, etc.), the with a caver. From what I hear, the latter almost data can be pretty scattered. But, there’s also happened, but the cat was discovered before it was the fact that fissure width (of joints, bedding- taken too far down the road. plane partings, etc.) is extremely important in allowing water to travel a long distance while Time to Go Underground still dissolving enough to form a passage. Tim Pride, Laura Young, Tim McLain, and I Doubling the initial fissure width will give an entered at 12:30 local time. The recent ISS passage 8X advantage in amount of water flow and improvement trip was well worth the effort. I speed of enlarging into a cave passage, all other immediately noticed that many of the crawls in the factors being equal. No other variable (flow upper part of the cave have been greatly enlarged

length, gradient, CO2, etc.) comes anywhere from belly crawl to hands and knees crawl. Speaking

Page 134 Central Indiana Grotto December, 2013 of crawling, I want to stress the importance of having floor and walls exhibited layers of black chert or a chicken loop for connecting a cave pack to your perhaps a hard black [Earlier this year, Sean leg for the many long crawls in the cave. This saves Vanderhoff verified it is shale]. The two Tims were a tremendous amount of energy and frustration, kind enough to let me lead through that section especially if you have a heavy pack. of the cave and see it for the first time in a pristine state, which was a real treat. There were frequent Cairn Hall, The Impressive Dig Zone, large potholes in the floor and many of the larger and the Mysterious Rise Pool ones were full of water. I quickly overheated and chose to submerge in a few of these potholes to cool We quickly made it to Cairn Hall in 20 minutes, down. After a few hundred feet of this passage, we did the climb-down, and soon we were at the site of soon slipped through a very interesting caver-sized the dig area that leads to the proper Blowing Hole pothole into a lower crawl that soon led to Rands connection. This area of the cave was very sinuous Return River Ride. As I traversed the clean-washed and reminded me of the upper parts of Guy Stover Black Shale Shelf Passage, I imagined the extreme Pit Cave. I want to be sure to echo Gary Roberson’s hydraulics that must take place in this area during comments on what he observed in this area. It’s flood conditions. The passage is nothing but a flood pretty amazing what Rand Heazlitt, Tim McLain, diversion route that was created by water under high and the other diggers did to open up this area so that pressure, and I respected this section as well as the Miller could connect to Blowing Hole. It looked like RRRR section for their nature to obviously flood there was a year’s worth of digging there, but it was in a ferocious manner (note: the National Weather done in only a relatively short time. I’m sure there Service showed no chance of rain that day). was hundreds of man hours spent in that area. [It was nowhere near that, but actually done in a couple Rands Return River Ride and of trips.] Hats off to you gentlemen, and a big thank- the Yogurt you! We made it from the entrance to the Richard Newton ladder in an hour. At the bottom of the The RRRR section of passage was named ladder and just a hundred feet or so downstream, I because Rand pushed this area on his return to noticed a rise pool type of feature on the right side the Binkley project after a hiatus when he was of the passage, although it contained no water. I developing Indiana Caverns. The “river ride” refers immediately suggested this rise pool may be the to the passage being a long crawlway that is mostly resurgence of the deep water siphon passage (where full of water except for a few gravel bars. The water the car tire was formerly wedged) below the pit at is barely deep enough to just float along in the the top of the left hand passage near the entrance of buoyancy of your wetsuit and pull yourself forward Miller Cave. There are a lot of eccentricities inMiller until you come to the next gravel bar. This was the Cave, and this is certainly one of them. Perhaps a dye first place in the cave where I noticed what you might trace can tell us if this rise pool does flow from the call “limestone yogurt.” This oddity is apparently a siphon in the upper cave. lime mud that takes on the consistency and texture of yogurt. This material is obviously being washed Living the High Life into the cave somehow from the quarry above some The High Life Passage was VERY impressive of the more eastern passages in the vicinity of the – it was nearly all walking and at the wetsuit Wild, Wild West area. The RRRR is one of those graveyard junction the passage was probably 20 feet passages where crawling in a wetsuit becomes very tall and 25 feet wide. We changed into our wetsuits tiring. My wetsuit fits so tightly that water will (I brought a full-length one) and took a short barely come down my neck when I’m lying in a break. It was here that I realized just how spent Tim pool on my back. Accordingly, every effort I put McLain and I were upon entering the cave. I looked forth into extending my arms while crawling was over at him and noticed he was sitting upright with met by a slight pull in the opposite direction from his eyes closed. I think both of us felt fairly spent my wetsuit. This is why I haven’t worn a wetsuit on upon entering the cave, and we were just getting a cave trip in almost a decade. It just wears me out, started. From there we headed into the Black especially while crawling or stoop walking. Shale Shelf Passage (BSSP). This passage is very geologically interesting and one of those unique Proceeding toward the Wild, Wild passages that cavers never forget. The passage was West Area, Diesel Fumes, and the typically 2 to 4 feet tall, clean washed, and the

December, 2013 Central Indiana Grotto Page 135 Boot Explosion continued downstream and the group pointed out We exited RRRR after about 45 minutes of an infeeder on the left that apparently drains the area crawling and took a break at the major junction at near the quarry’s diesel pumps, located somewhere the end of that passage. We had been in the cave on the surface above us. The passage in this area about 3 hours at this point. Tim McLain had, on reeked of diesel fuel and it got worse as we stirred up an earlier trip, set up an ingenious water gauge just the mud and displaced the diesel remnants stored upstream of this junction on the mudbank: he there. It’s interesting that there were large blind fish placed six numbered wine bottle corks on the bank downstream of this polluted area. This area is very at successive heights to see how high the water had reminiscent of the Valdez Passage of Constitution risen since he placed them. They were all still in Elm Cave north of Indian Creek in Corydon. The place. During our break, I noticed that one of the passage soon lowered to stoop-walking height and soles of my recently-purchased boots had started it continued like this for a couple of hundred feet. I separating from the boot upper. At this point, the hate stoop-walking in a snug wetsuit – to me, there sole was ripped back about 5 inches and obviously really is nothing worse in caving. was going to soon detach completely from the boot. I started considering the ramifications of the boot Seeing Wilson Way for the First Time failing near the Frontier (which was another hour About 555 feet from the break area at the end of further into the cave), and started mulling over RRRR, the infeeding walking passage called Wilson my options, which included: 1. Repair (unlikely, Way that goes toward Wilson Pit came in on the left given the materials available); 2. Hope that the side. It was a very special feeling seeing that passage boot would miraculously hold together (even more for the first time, because I have been in Wilson Pit unlikely), or 3. Retreat and start heading for the a few times and always wondered about a possible entrance and hope the boot holds together until connection to Miller, Binkley, or Blowing Hole. I I could at least get to Newton’s ladder. I informed can’t wait to see more of it someday, and hopefully the group of my predicament and I think everyone explore the passage upward into paleo ridge passages. realized how this was going to affect the survey trip, It’s interesting to note that the airflow discernibly given the loss of a surveyor, and I asked everyone splits three ways at this junction. I recently shared for ideas and suggestions, because I was out of both. some of my daydreams and musings with Dave Laura suggested duct tape, which I possessed and Everton about a Lechugilla-style passage that may had considered, but knew was absolutely futile since exist higher and drier, nestled in the eternal comfort the boot was wet and muddy. She then suggested of the two big ridges upstream of this passage. something that I wouldn’t have expected to work at all: one of her wool socks! She was wearing two A Shared Feeling of Great Downstream pairs of socks, and gave me one sock of the older Potential in Miller Lite pair and suggested I pull it over the front of the boot, tie my laces over the top of the sock on the Miller Lite begins downstream of the junction top of the boot, and pull the other side of the sock of Wilson Way. Eventually, the passage we were over the back of the boot. I first used all the duct in enlarged to comfortable walking for a while in tape I had and secured it over the detached sole in a fairly narrow canyon with ample breakdown. a figure eight manner. Then I pulled the sock over This area of the cave reminded me very much of and tied the laces over the front and also pulled the where the Fatigueway passage turns into the South sock over the back side. The back of the sock ripped Stream Passage in the historic part of Binkley. The out some on the back of my boot, but given that the Fatigueway is aptly named because it is a series of sock seemed to hold my sole in place, I went ahead long stoop ways and water crawls before an apparent and decided to press on downstream toward the geologic change is encountered and the floor drops Frontier. Laura’s solution worked extremely well, out at the beginning of the South Stream Passage and I have to give her props for her ingenuity. I was and the passage enlarges to . Similarly, after very thankful that this worked out, because I once a while, we began to get the sense that the Miller Lite had a boot sole failure just a couple of thousand passage was getting ready to break through whatever feet into a dry, easy, horizontal cave trip. It was very underlying layer (probably massive chert or shale) slow and somewhat painful to walk with only a sock that is preventing the floor from eroding downward protecting one of my feet, and an injury is bound to and thus turning a crawling/stooping passage into a happen eventually with an unprotected foot. By the borehole passage. The average gradient in the Miller way, the duct tape didn’t even last for 500 feet. We Lite passage is next to zero. There are very few riffles

Page 136 Central Indiana Grotto December, 2013 or other signs one is heading downstream; it’s just didn’t appear to be cold at all, he was surely chilled. a very flat passage with long areas of ponded water. The airflow here was strong as anywhere else in the Miller Lite section, so we know it doesn’t . But Start of Survey given that we listened and didn’t hear any cascading We made it to the end of the previous trip’s water led us to think that the low airspace passage survey in about 4 hours from the entrance. The (may I suggest “A Pint of Miller” as the name for this survey began and the passage was consistent in low airspace feature?) may continue as a low crawl that it constantly alternated between walking and for some time. But, the water may continue with crawling passage, averaging between 2 and 6 feet zero gradient with a raised ceiling; time will tell. I tall. The water depth averaged around 18 inches believe that the resistant layer that is holding up the to 2 feet deep, but was deeper in some places. We floor downstream of the frontier will be breached surveyed for about 3 hours and netted 705.5 feet in in a fairly short distance as we head downstream, fairly good, but very wet and muddy conditions. It and may result in a small waterfall or a series of should be noted that there was ample organic debris cascades or potholes when that layer is breached. on the ceiling throughout the Miller Lite section Unfortunately, this breaching did not happen on and I think this indicates a likely swallowhole our trip, but as we push Miller Lite downstream, it entrance in the vicinity or somewhere upstream. certainly will go BIG. We are 2 to 3 miles away from I kept checking and adjusting Laura’s sock on Bruner Spring Cave and Indian Creek, the passage my boot. Although holes were being worn in the has GREAT airflow, and it transports a lot of bottom side of the sock, it appeared that it was water, both in flood and in drier conditions. All of going to hold my boot together after all, which was these factors are a perfect recipe for miles of virgin almost unbelievable to me. borehole to be discovered downstream in Miller Lite and the Wild, Wild West area. The Frontier We had been in the cave for about 6½ hours Time to Head Out before we finally reached the Frontier.Tim McLain Laura and Tim McLain were just a short quickly discerned where the NTI (next trip distance behind Tim Pride and me, and we yelled investment) ended and the virgin cave began. After that we were coming back to them. We headed a couple of survey shots, he whooped and yelled back to our packs at the end of the survey, took a that he had found the “Mother Lode.” We became short break, and headed for the surface after being very excited, and since I had already read the tape in the cave for about 7 hours and 15 minutes. My measurement, I went ahead to where Tim was to see cave pack was very heavy for this trip and included what he was seeing. It turns out that it was simply a my camera, two flashguns, many flashbulbs, and a 7- to 8-foot-tall walking passage, not the 30-foot- tripod to photograph the huge, virgin river passage tall “mother lode” that Tim’s teasing had caused us that surely lies downstream of the Frontier in Miller to envision in our heads. Lite. But that will have to wait for another day, and We took a few more shots past the “Mother I have to admit that I didn’t mind the extra weight, Lode” and had a discussion about trip goals and for it was worth the effort just to have a chance how everyone was feeling. We were a bit tired, fairly to photograph such a beautiful and remote place cold, and had been in the cave for 7 hours and had for the first time. On the way out, Tim Pride was at least a 4-hour trip to get back out to the surface. a pretty good distance ahead of me because I had We decided to do some NTI (next trip investment) to check and adjust my sock so my boot wouldn’t to see what lay around the corner, and we were all fail. I took occasional breaks and waited until I very glad that we did. In about 250 feet or so, the heard Tim McLain and Laura coming up behind passage was about 8 feet tall with 5 feet of water me, then I started upstream again. The wetsuit was depth in one short spot and then became shallow wearing me down, and by the time the long stoop- again. Then around the next bend to the left, the walking passage started, I decided to either crawl passage changed character for the worse. The ceiling through the water or lie down on my back and float lowered and the passage became 2 feet tall with backwards upstream, rather than stoop-walk in an average of only 2 inches of airspace. Tim Pride my wetsuit. I caught up to Tim Pride at the break grabbed the reins and went full steam ahead, while area at the RRRR junction, and we stayed together I observed him go as far as I could see into the low from there to the entrance. At the wetsuit graveyard airspace crawlway. He returned after being in the low I STRUGGLED to get my wetsuit off and asked airspace crawl for about 3 minutes and, although he Tim to help. It was a good thing that he was there

December, 2013 Central Indiana Grotto Page 137 to help, because we both had a hard time peeling wait to get back to Indiana and do it again. I want it off my arms and around my shoulders; it was a to give a big thank-you to all of the members of the very snug fit. From there, Tim Pride graciously let ISS for your continuing efforts in what is surely one me go first up the ladder so that he could assist of the best projects anywhere. me with my heavy, tethered cave pack since it was Aaron Atz apt to get hung up. Next time, I’ll bring a shorter NSS 43492 tether. On the way out, I marveled at just how nice [email protected] Cairn Hall is, especially the massive anastomoses on the right side toward the upstream end of the Trip Report Summary: room. Wow! what a great section of passage. Tim Miller Entrance to the Binkley Cave System and I exited at 11:45 p m. local time after 11.25 Date: Saturday September 14, 2013 hours underground. Gary was eagerly waiting for us Objective: Survey the downstream frontier in The at the parking area and we told him the details of Wild, Wild West area the trip. It says a lot about what kind of guy Gary High/low surface temperature: (approximately is, waiting for us like that. Laura and Tim McLain 74/57F) exited at 12:30 local time after 12 hours in the cave. Airflow comment: “Flowing well in all areas We all changed clothes in the first 50 to 60 degree considering the temperature” (Atz) evening in recent memory. I bade farewell to all and Participants: Tim Pride, Laura Young, Tim McLain, started my two-hour drive back to Bowling Green and Aaron Atz and arrived home at 3:10 a.m. Louisville time. All Entry time: 12:30 p.m. told, we crawled between 1¼ to 1½ miles on this Exit times: 11:45 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. (Sept 15) trip, and spent around 9½ hours in a wetsuit, which Hours underground: 11.25 to 12 always makes caving difficult. But it was another Man hours underground: 46.5 wonderful, challenging, and very rewarding day in Author: Aaron Atz, September 19th, 2013 Binkley Cave. It was a difficult trip, but I cannot

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f you’ve never been Ito an NSS National Convention, then put Huntsville on your schedule for next July. Indiana has hosted four conventions over the years, the most recent being Marengo in 2007. Conventions are a mix of caving, social events, and serious discussions. The sessions present talks with photos on cave biology, geology, conservation, history, U.S. exploration, I n t e r n a t i o n a l explorations, and many smaller sessions. The exploration sessions Dick and Sue Vernier on the Appalachian Trail. show what is happening on the cutting edge of caving. All of the sessions are Cavers have a common bond that makes everyone well attended especially the exploration ones. a friend. The convention would not be a caving The Howdy Party with beverages and music is on Monday, the campground party with the Terminal Siphons on Wednesday, the Photo Salon on Thursday, and the Awards Banquet on Friday. The vertical climbing contest for 30 meters and 100 meters are very popular. One can see different climbing systems in action. A number of workshops are offered on photography, art, cave mapping, and conservation. The vertical techniques workshop allows one to learn and try different climbing and rappelling systems. Then there is the print and art displays, the cave maps, and many more. Be sure to check out the newsletter cover submissions. The IKC, CIG, and Cave Survey submitted covers. You’ve seen all of them on your newsletters. The NSS Board of Governors holds formal sessions on Monday and Friday. It is interesting to meet the officers and directors and see how they conduct themselves. The election ballot is no longer just names and platforms, but real cavers. The vendors are there in force with everything cave related. The advantage of handling the merchandise and talking directly with the vendors makes purchasing more confident. The best part of conventions is seeing all my Dick Vernier in Lincoln Caverns Indiana friends and cavers across the country.

December, 2013 Central Indiana Grotto Page 139 convention without some caving. A large variety canyons with lots of flowstone. The guide told of of vertical, horizontal, challenging, and easy caves the hundreds of bats that used to live in the cave. are available. Always plan to take in some caving. Now there are just a few, victims of WNS. And be sure to decontaminate all gear. Although Shippensburg is a long drive from Colorado, cavers are not the principal vector for White Nose but worth the experience. Dave Lester and I stopped Syndrome (WNS), one does not want to have even in Illinois and Indiana to break up the long drive a doubt. there. On the way back, we joined Keith Dunlap One must pick and choose with so much to for a tour of Upper Twin Cave. The amount of cave do. This year I hiked on the Appalachian Trail life and especially the cave fish are impressive. The with Dick and Sue Vernier. We were within a mile water was up to our necks in one pool. All the water of the halfway point and in the hiker’s tradition undoubtedly supports the large fish population. It we had ice cream at the State Park store. We also is an excellent addition to the IKC properties. We visited Lincoln Caverns, a commercial cave. In stopped at the Buddha and Sullivan properties on a large room, I commented on the ceiling. It was the way back. No caving this time, but the caves call the bottom of the highway. They strengthened the for a visit next time in Indiana. roadway over the cave with concrete. The original The next day was the usual dreaded drive home. entrance was across the road and went under We drove straight through arriving at 10:00 p.m. the the two-lane road. Crossing the highway was a same day. Of course the two-hour clock difference challenge, so they developed the new entrance. As made it possible. Huntsville is closer by a couple of a bonus, we walked up the hill to Whisper Rocks hours and TAG is calling. The convention Web site for another cave tour. Both caves are high vertical is http://nss2014.caves.org/ Check it out.  Minutes of the CIG Executive Board Meeting October 16, 2013

Present: Dean Wiseman – Chairman; UIndy Ron Adams – Vice-Chairman; Rich Lunseth – Website: Update for Next Month Treasurer; Bob Vandeventer; Dave Haun Dean’s Program for Greece for December Since there was no quorum, discussion Bat Reporting Form involved: Vertical Training -- We need a new place to Color Copier - Cost to run, will we want to train. build a cost structure for other orgs (IKC, NSS, Ron - Indiana Veneers? etc.)? Proyecto Sierra Mazateca Capers - Site Discussion Photos needed for Caving Basics Dean can travel on Wednesday, November Tom exiting as CIG News Editor 27th for site visit, if possible. -Discussion of Secretary duties in lieu of an Weekend revenue at Blue Spring for August acting Secretary 7-10th --> Offer $1,000.) Discussion for new officers and E-Board Hosting a BOG Meeting functions 1.) Accomodations -Discussion of officer roles 2.) Howdy Party, Friday Night -Duty Roster for Officers 3.) Food during the meeting; Breakfast & -Duty Roster for Cave Capers Lunch 4.) Dinner After the Meeting Submitted by Dean Wiseman, Chairman. 5.) Meeting Room - Nature Conservancy HQ; SpeleoLog compiled by Bill Greenwald from the November Grotto meeting. Date>October 5, 2013 By>Team 1: Troy Fuqua (leader), Adam Haydock, Cave>Ellisons Cave Anmar Mirza, Kevin Romanak, Noboru Sakabe, Location>Walker County, Steve Scoutaris

Page 140 Central Indiana Grotto December, 2013 Team 2: Elliot Stahl (leader), Aaron Atz, Grace Date>October 27, 2013 Baumann, Jesse Houser, Brian Killingbeck, Joe Cave>Buckner Cave Kinder, Dave Stahl Location>Monroe County, Indiana Comments>Crossover trip By>Jesse Houser, Chris Nurnburger, Dave Stahl, Tristan Stahl, and many others Date>October 11, 2013 Comments>NCRC Orientation to Cave>Bo Allen Pit instruction by Jess Deli, Leanne Hughes, Anmar Location>White County, Tennessee Mirza, and Don Paquette with assistance from By>Ron Adams, Jesse Houser, Marion O. Smith, Tymme Laun and Kevin Romanak. Danyele Cot- Zack Snyder, and Dave Stahl trell and Chris Parks volunteered as patients. Comments> none Date>October 27, 2013 Date>October 12, 2013 Cave>Buckner Cave Cave>Verns Pit Location>Bloomingon,Indiana Location>Walker County, Georgia By> By>Grace Baumann, Dan Calhoun, Tabbatha Kelly McNamara and (40+) People / NCRC- Cavendish, Alan Cressler, Alexandra Crosby, Alan OCR Weekend Grosse, Jesse Houser, Greg Jones, Brian Killing- Comments>I’m new to caving and am loving it. beck, Jeff Moore, Erin Ling, Dave Stahl, and Elliot This trip was a mock cave rescue where the “pa- Stahl tients” survived. Comments>Approx. 40-foot pit on Pigeon Date>October 26-27, 2013 Mountain Cave>Buckner Cave Indiana Date>October 12, 2013 Location>Bloomingon, Cave>Patton Cave By>Bill Greenwald and Mark Campbell 40+ Location>Monroe Co, Indiana people / NCRC-OCR Weekend By>Dan Chase and Harvest Campers Comments> Nine Sheet Handout for classroom Comments>Just took a few pics at the entrance Session on Saturday. Mock rescure on Sunday took 5hours. I learned a lot about entrance control Date>October 13, 2013 and Mark helped with phone lines. The dedica- Cave>Dark Well tion and experience of the instructors is the best! Location>Jackson County, Alabama By>Carl Amundsen, Grace Baumann, Tabbatha Date>11/02, 2013 Cavendish, Chris Coates, Nikki Fox, Corey Hack- Cave>Lucas Cave Indiana ley, Jesse Houser, Brian Killingbeck, Terry McCla- Location>Milltown, nathan, and Aaron Moses By>Ron Adams, Kent Wilson, Mike Lucas, Comments>Pit 1: 123 feet, Pit 2: 74 feet, Pit 3: Danny Dible, Brian Grub, Bart Nott, Ty Spatta, 16 feet, Pit 4: 21 feet, Pit 5 (Electric Shaft): 117 Chuck Runkle, and Glen LeMasters feet, Pit 6 (Rifle Barrel Shaft): 138 feet. Paint Comments>Active dirt dig, significant air flow, Rock River area North Wyandott Ridge Date>October 14, 2013 Date>October 5 - October 14 – November 2, Cave>Cemetery Pit 2013 Location>Dade County, Georgia Cave>Ellisons Cave - Clad Hole Cemetary - By>Jesse Houser, Ron Adams, Joe Kinder, Dave Freemans Stahl, and Zack Snyder Location> ? Comments>Sulphur Springs Gap Road near the By>Joe Kinder, Jesse Houser, Dave Stahl, Jay TAG Fall Cave-In site took a toll on Dave’s Jeep. Jeskewich, Ron Adams, and several others Thanks to Ron for the speedy brake caliper and Comments> none rotor replacement in the parking area. Date>October 23, 2013 I read recipes the same way I Cave>Storms Pit Location> ? read science fiction. I get to the By>Jeff Cody and Mike Lorance, Eric Edelman, end and I think, “Well, that’s and Kenn Smith not going to happen.” Comments>Our first time to the pit - very nice

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A Bower, Seth 36 Adams, Ron 16, 23, 25, 35, 38, 39, 53, 54, 71, 72, Bowman, Grace 3 103, 126, 141 Boyd, Dayton 9, 23 Adler, James 133 Bracken Cave, Texas 72 Agne, Linna 66, 70, 71 Brack, Virgil 24 Akers, Marion 83, 97 Bricker, Cullen 84 Akers, Simon 83 Bridge, Bart 52, 88, 97, 106 Akers, Tony 83, 126 Bridge, Barton 35, 70, 126, 127 Anderson, Caleb 66, 70, 71 Bridge, Carrie 52 Annonson, Jonathan 17, 35, 36, 112 Buckles, Heather 9 Ashby, Gary 132 Buckles, Jay 9 Atz, Aaron 133, 134, 141 Buckles, Tyler 9 B Buckner Cave 83, 100, 112, 141 Burns, Pat 9, 17, 24, 36, 53, 71, 97, 112, 127 Bailey, Jerry 25 Burns, Ron 67 Barcom, Brad 8, 17, 23, 24, 34, 36, 53, 71, 97, 112 Buzzard Cave, Missouri 127 Bartlett, Jeff 70 C Bat Boxes 39 Bateman, Conrad 53 Cabtano, Frank 53 bats 25, Cadillac Pit 33, 36 Baumann, Grace 9, 70, 131, 141 Calendar of Events 37 Baumgartner, Randy 8 Calhoun, Dan 141 Baus, Bill 17, 23, 24, 35 Campbell, Mark 141 Bebinger, Lori 35 Carcass Crevice 23, 24, 35, 52, 71 Bell, Chris 44, 53, 59, 62, 77, 82, 91, 93, 104, 120 Carcass Crypt Pit 8 Bent Legs Cave, Pennsylvania 71 Cave Capers 37, 39, 53, 72 Benton, John 30, 36 Cave Connection 22 Benton, Nick 23, 35, 36, 53, 112 Cavendish, Tabbatha 8, 32, 70, 141 Bentz Cave 97 Cave Symposium 38 Berman, Daniel C. 10 Cemetery Pit, Georgia 141 Biddix, Bob 11 Chappell, Gwen 66, 70, 71 Big Mouth Cave, Tennessee 112 Charles C Dean Wilderness 35 Big Still Cave 79 Chase, Dan 38, 39, 126, 141 Binkley Cave 17, 22, 24, 30, 34, 35, 36, 53, 70, 71 China 25 77, 97, 112, 126, 127, 133 CIG Newsletter 109 Black, Dave 44, 127 Cincinnati Museum 21, 37 Blowing Hole Cave 36, 97 Clark, Jenny 133 Blue Spring Cave 126 Clark, Terry 132 Bo Allen Pit, Tennessee 9, 97, 106, 141 Cleveland Grotto 53 Boca Tabla Hato, Curacao 97 Clifton, Willie 62 B&O Cave, Kentucky 101, 104 Climb Time Indy 35, 126 Boler, Aaron 84 Coates, Chris 141 bolts 30 Cody, Jeff 53, 76, 107, 112, 123, 126, 141 bones 46 Conley Hole, Tennessee 97, 108 Booth, Angela 10 Coon Cave 9, 23, 70, 97, 127 Booth, Matthew 10 Coon Cave, Lawrence County 13 Boston Grotto 71 Cottrell, Danyele 17, 126, 127 Bourke, Mary 10 Cox, Ryan 44, 62 Bower, Amber 8 Crabtree, Greer 10 Bower, Chris 8 Craig, Adam 36

Index, 2013 Central Indiana Grotto Page 143 Crayden, Terry (The Dog) 77 Ferris Pit, Tennessee 35 Cressler, Alan 141 Fessel-Bell, Jenna 62, 78, 87, 91, 93, 95, 104 Crosby, Alexandra 141 Fessel, Jenna 43 Cross, Chris 8, 70, 84 Fisher Ridge Cave, Kentucky 126 Cross, Cody 84 Fox, Nikki 141 C. Roy Watson Cave 63 Frederick’s Café 134 Cumberland Caverns, Tennessee 52 Fredricksdurg Cave 36 Cumberland Chasm, Tennessee 97, 107 Freeman Pit 127 Cummings, Patti 36 Frushour, Sam 17 D Fuqua, Troy 70, 88, 140 G Dannys Dig 83 Danz, Cade 9 Gabbard, Nathan 8 Danz, Spenser 9 garage sale 54 Danz, Tyson 9 General Devices Corporation 25 Dark Well, Alabama 141 Gentry, Steve 17 Deans List 37, 100, 111 Geo Catching 38 DeCero, Kim 22 Geophysical Research Letters 10 Deli, Jessica 17 Gibson Canyon Cave 65 Detorre, Rebecca 10 Gilbert, Joey 10 Devils Drapery Well 84 Glass Cave, Kentucky 85, 92 Devils Graveyard Cave 84 Goldman, Nolan 59 Dewey Eckart Hole 8, 9 Goldman, Terry 59 Dible, Danny 17, 35, 83, 126, 127, 141 Gower, Seth 24, 112 Dick, Chris 23, 24, 35, 84 Graham Pit, Alabama 70 Dog Hill-Donnehue Cave 17 Green Eye II Pit 8 Donnehue Cave 8, 17, 52 Green Eye I Pit 8 Drake, Mike 36 Green Eye Pit 36, 38 Driskill, Glenn 91, 104 Greenwald, Bill 8, 9, 16, 21, 22, 25, 35, 37, 38, 54, Duffey, Jason 24 70, 72, 84, 97, 100, 111, 112, 141 Dukes Cave 84 Grosse, Alan 70, 141 Dunlap, Keith 22, 24, 25, 35, 38, 53, 54, 71, 97, Grotto Cave 23, 127 100, 127, 140 Grotto Picnic 100 Dunn, Colin 10 Grub, Brian 141 E Guys Cave, Alabama 70 Guy Stover Pit Cave 135 Eastern Airlines 123 H Edelman, Eric 141 Ellisons Cave, Georgia 70, 88, 140 Hackley, Corey 141 Elmore, Clinton 10 Hammond Cave 55, 57, 61 El Speleo cave light 58 Hanka, Doug 17, 35, 126 Engram, Bill 9 Haun, Dave 22, 37, 38, 39 Eve, Kevin 133 Hauser, Jesse 38 Eversole Cave 9, 70, 97, 112 Haydock, Adam 17, 140 Everton, Dave 8, 9, 17, 22, 23, 24, 34, 35, 36, 52, Heazlitt, Rand 8, 36, 112, 135 53, 70, 71, 72, 97, 112, 126, 127 Hebrus Valles, Mars 9 F Heinke, Tray 53 Helen Grace Cave 117, 121 Fall, Libby 84 Hells Hole Cave 4, 8 Fall MVOR 127 Hicks, Glen 36 Fall, Sue 84 Hicks, Sherry 36 Fantastic Pit 88 Hidden Demon Pit 64 Fenix HP 25 headlamp 76 Hidden Pit 35, 127 Fern Cave, Alabama 126, 127 Hiramatsu, Reina 35

Page 144 Central Indiana Grotto Index, 2013 Hobbit Hole 82 Lester, Dave 97, 140 Hobbs, Mark 10 Lewis, Brent 133 Holtmann, Derik 84 Lewis, Jerry 53 Holtmann, Kyle 84 Lincoln Caverns, Pennsylvania 140 Home School Outing Group 112 Ling, Erin 141 Hoosier National Forest Swallow Hole 32, 35, 36 little brown bats 25 Houser, Jesse 4, 8, 9, 16, 17, 32, 34, 35, 36, 39, 53, Lone Star Saltpeter Cave, Kentucky 71 66, 70, 71, 84, 97, 112, 126, 127, 141 Long, Ray 84 Howard Cave 93 Lorance, Mike 84, 141 Howards Pit. 94 Louisville Grotto 112 Hoyt, Kyle 17, 23, 83 Lucas Cave 141 Hughes, Leanne 17 Lucas, Mike 17 Hutchins, Ben 17 Lunseth, Rich 15, 17, 37, 38, 39, 52, 53, 71, 84, I 100 M Indiana bats 25 Indiana Caverns 17, 23 Majdek, James 15 Indianapolis 126 Mammoth Cave, Kentucky 127 Indiana Speleological Survey 77 Manley Sisters Cave 36 Iskali, Goni 23, 24, 71, 112 36 IU Caving Club 4 Mars 9 J Marvin, Elza 123, 126 McClanathan, Terry 141 Jackson, Bob 17, 59, 91, 95, 104 McHenry, Rick 84 Jaggers, George 30 McLain, Tim 9, 17, 23, 35, 36, 53, 70, 97, 112, JCI Corn Booth 38 127, 134, 135, 137, 138 Jenny Boyle Cave 81 McNamara, Greg 17, 35, 72, 83, 127 Jeskaids, Greg 126 McNamara, Kelly 141 Jims Hole 8 McNutt, Courtney 84 Johnson, Monica 53 Mellado, Bridget 21, 43, 62, 78 Johnson, Scott 24, 35, 127 Meredith, Gwendwr 4, 8, 32, 35, 36 Jones, Greg 141 Mexico 23, 37 Jones, Sharon 84, 106 Meyer, Don 126 K Miller Cave 35, 36, 133, 135 Milner, Ken 126, 127 Kalch, Matt 131 Minstn, Jon 70 Kento 83 Minutes of Executive Meeting, April 10, 2013 39 Kerns Pit 32, 35, 36 Minutes of Executive Meeting, October 16, 2013 Killingbeck, Brian 9, 70, 141 140 Kinder, Jamison 126 Minutes of Regular Meeting, February 6, 2013 25 Kinder, Joe 35, 52, 54, 57, 70, 72, 84, 88, 97, 106, Minutes of Regular Meeting, March 6, 2013 37 112, 126, 127, 141 Minutes of Regular Meeting, April 3, 2013 38 King Leo Cave 4, 8, 84 Minutes of Regular Meeting, May 1, 2013 53 Kirsch, Steve 84 Minutes of Regular Meeting, June 5, 2013 71 Knasel, Chelsea 23 Minutes of Regular Meeting, August 14, 2013 100 Knasel, Chris 23 Mirza, Anmar 17, 140 Knasel, Mike 23 Mnich, Jon 88 L Moni, Gerald 11, 126 Monolith Rift 35 Lamb, Frank 38 moonshine 79 Laun, Tymme 17, 126, 127 Moore, Jeff 141 Lava River Cave, Arizona 53 Moore, Rolland 23, 126 Lawrence County 4H Fairgrounds 38 Moses, Aaron 141 LeMasters, Glen 141 Music, Keith 84

Index, 2013 Central Indiana Grotto Page 145 Myer, Dean 111 Rodriguez, J. Alexis Palmero 9 Myles, Shane 8, 23, 36, 71, 97, 112, 127 Romanak, Kevin 140 N Rothrock Pit 84 Rowland Pit 11 Nalls, Jesslyn 35 Runkle, Chuck 141 NASA Mars Data Analysis Program 10 Rutledge Hollow 11 National Convention 139 S Newton, Richard 134 Nolan, Kate 66, 70, 71 Safety Coordinator 111 Nott, Bart 17, 23, 141 Sakabe, Noboru 140 Noyes, Austen 35 Saltpeter Cave, Tennessee 112 Nurnberger, Chris 8, 32, 35, 36, 141 Salts Cave 8 O Sammerman, Matt 84 Saylor Cave 120 Oakley, Adam 17, 35, 66, 70, 71, 126 SCCi 11 Oaxaca 23 Scherer, Adam 23 Organ Cave, 127 Schnur, Alex 35 Owaissa Bauer Cave, Florida 129, 131 Schotter, Chris 17 Owens, Anthony 126 Schwartzentruber, Mandy 66, 70, 71 P Scoutaris, Steve 140 seagull 123 Pace, Norm 133 Sewanne Mountain Cave Fest 112 Palmer, Joy 70 Shawnee Karst Preserve 38, 71 Paquette, Don 100 Sheldon, Ray 35 Parkers Pit 121 Shultheis, John 35 Parks, Chris 126, 127 Sinking Creek Cave 123, 126 Patton Cave 35, 141 Smith, Kenn 141 Pawlowski, Craig 52 Smith, Kevin 123, 126 peccary 46 Smith, Marion O. 9, 84, 106, 126, 141 Pelsor, Matt 17, 35, 84 Smiths Blowhole 19, 27, 41 Piatt, Tull 35 Snail Shell Cave, Tennessee 10 Pitts, Steve 126 Snakes 200 Pit, Alabama 70 Planetary Science Institute 9 Snyder, Zach 126 Preston, Jessica 10 Snyder, Zack 8, 17, 32, 35, 36, 84, 97, 141 Pride, Tim 8, 9, 17, 23, 24, 36, 53, 70, 71, 97, 112, Sockeye Green Pit, Tennessee 97, 107 127, 134, 137, 138 Sollman, Tom 35 Pryor Cave, Tennessee 112 South Laurel Pot, Tennessee 9 R Spatta, Ty 35, 36, 71, 126, 141 Stacys Pit 44 Raymond, Eric 10 Stahl, Dave 4, 8, 9, 17, 32, 35, 36, 66, 70, 71, 84, Rays Cave 127 97, 106, 126, 127, 141 Rea, Tom 22, 37, 39, 54, 72, 83, 100, 109, 111 Stahl, Elliot 9, 23, 84, 126, 127, 141 Redden, Carla 35 Stahl, Tristan 84, 141 Reeves Cave 84 State Fair 38, 54 Renfro, Skylr 112 Steele, Bill 5, 84 Richards, Christina 10 Steinhoff, Fred 53 Richards, Jason 10 Stephens Gap, Alabama 1, 3 Rickenbacker, Eddie 123 Stephens, Sheila 84 ridge walk 35 Steve Potter 127 Road Noise Pit, Tennessee 9 Stonebridge Cave 8 Roberson, Gary 77, 134, 138 Storms Pit 127 Robert, Joe 35 Strickland, Dave 119 Roberts Cave 38, 46, 52 Strickland, Rob 17 Roberts Hollow Cave, Kentucky 91 Strickland, Susan 119

Page 146 Central Indiana Grotto Index, 2013 Suicide Cave 53, 67, 70, 71, 84 Wesner, Makenna 35 Sullivan Cave 17, 35, 53, 71, 97, 126 Whisper Rocks, Pennsylvania 140 Surprise Pit, Alabama 127 Whitaker, Jordan 35 Sykes, Mark V. 10 White Nose Syndrome 25, 35 T Wightman, Reid 36, 53, 127 Wiles, Christopher 52 Tennessee Cave Survey 11 Wilkinson, Susan 16 Threesome Lost Pot 44 Williams, Brian 10 Tozer, Bill 22, 97, 140 Wilson, Kent 141 tri-color bats 25 Wilson Pit 84 Trip Coordinator 37 Wimple, Carl Jr 70 Trotter, Bruce 35 Wimple, Carl Sr 70 Tucker, Horace 46, 52, 54, 66, 70, 71, 72, 97, 100 Wimple, Mary 70 Turner Cave, Kentucky 95 Wind, Ellie 17, 35 Turner, Glenn 95 Windrow Branch Creek 11 U Windrow Rift Cave, Tennessee 11 Windrow Stick Cave, Tennessee 11 Uglum, Jonathan 84 Winner, Carla 95 Uglum, Paul 4, 8, 16, 17, 32, 35, 53, 66, 70, 71, Winner, Jamie 59, 95 84, 97, 126, 127 Wiseman, Dean 4, 8, 25, 37, 38, 39, 53, 100, 126, Under Earth Day 38 127 Upper Twin Cave 97, 140 Wiseman, Kira 35 V Wiseman Saltpeter Cave I 73, 75, 78 Wiseman Saltpeter Cave II 78 Vailhe, Guillaume 84 Wolf, Shelly 84, 123, 126 Valandra, Aaron 35, 112 Woolard, Andrew 82 Vanderhoff, Sean 17, 71 Woolard, Colton 82 Vandeventer, Bob 37, 39, 53, 54, 71, 97, 103 Woolard, Mike 82, 120 Van Fleet, Robert 66, 70, 71 Wyandotte Cave 71, 100 Vast Caverns, Alabama 70 Y Vernier, Dick 132, 140 Vernier, Sue 132, 140 Yao, Cassandra 36 Verns Pit, Georgia 141 Yao, Kelno 71 Vertical Workshop 16 Yao, Keluo 32, 36 Vetters, Charlie 66, 70, 71, 84, 111, 112, 126, 127 Young, Laura 36, 53, 112, 134, 138 W Z Wagon Wheel Sink 11 Zellner, Andy 70 Wait-n-See Pit 45 Walker, Brian 35 Walker, Jerry 35 Contributors Wallier Cave 35 Atz, Aaron 133 Wall, R.J. 35 Bell, Chris 21, 43, 44, 57, 59, 62, 77, 82, 87, 91, water supply point 11 93, 95, 104, 119, 120 Watson, Brian 17 Cody, Jeff 24, 58, 76, 123 Wayne Cave 71 Everton, Dave 22 Wayne, Laura 35, 36, 53, 66, 70, 71, 127 Fischer, Alan 9 Webb, Mark 123, 126 Greenwald, Bill 8, 15, 16, 17, 23, 34, 38, 39, 47, Webb, Todd 22, 57, 59, 82, 91, 95, 104 49, 52, 54, 70, 83, 97, 100, 109, 111, 112, Weber, Ben 32, 35, 36 126, 132, 140 Cave 59, 84 Houser, Jesse 66 Welp, Brian 59, 91, 94, 95, 104, 119, 120 Kinder, Joe 88, 106 Wenner, Mark 10 Lunseth, Rich 40 Wertz Cave 43, 80 Putnam, Bill 30

Index, 2013 Central Indiana Grotto Page 147 Richards, Jason 10 CIG’s 2013 Vertical Workshop 16 Snyder, Zack 32 CIG’s History and Evolution to 2014 109 Stahl, Elliot 3, 131 CIG Trip to Suicide Cave 66 Tozer, Bill 139 CIG will be looking for new Safety Coordinator in Tucker, Horace 46 2014 111 Vetters, Charlie 98, 114 Editorial 18, 125 Wiseman, Dean 4, 25, 140 Ellisons Cave – May 4, 2013 88 El Speleo 2000 Cave Light 58 Fenix HP 25 Headlamp Review 76 Covers How to Find a New Cave in Your Own Back Yard Grace Bowmann at Stephens Gap 1 62 Rachel Brown in Coon Cave 13 In Memory of Terry Clark 132 Bridget Mellado in Smiths Blowhole 19 Kentucky Caving! 91 George Jaggers and John Benton at the upstream side Kentucky Caving: Round Two 104 of the Formation Room 27 Old Guy and a Bucket of Shrimp 122 Jenna Fessel and Bridget Mellado in Wertz Cave 41 One Perspective from the Roberts Cave Trip 46 Todd Webb In Hammond Cave’s formation area 55 Recent Activities at Snail Shell Cave 10 Casey Jenna Bridget in Wiseman Saltpeter Cave I 73 Recreational Pit Caving in Southern Indiana 32 Jenna Fessel-Bell in Glass Cave, Kentucky 85 Retracing the Steps of the Indiana Speleological The borehole passage in B&O Cave, Kentucky 101 Survey 77 Brian Welp in the borehole passage in Helen Grace Safety and Our Grotto 3, 15, 21, 30, 43, 57, 75, 87, Cave 117 103, 119, 131 Grace Baumann and Matt Klach in Owaissa Bauer September 14, 2013, Binkley Cave Trip Report 133 Cave, Florida 129 Shippensburg NSS National Convention 139 Should the CIG Newsletter Continue? 18 Sinking Creek Cave System 123 Titles SpeleoLog 8, 34, 97, 83, 99, 140, 17, 23 2012 CIG Christmas Card and Tennessee TAG trip – July 26 to 28, 2013 106 Cave Connection Newsletter Mailing 22 The Senator’s Choice 128 A Good Day to Spend Underground 59 Two Nice Pits and a Pleasant Surprise 120 Arkansas Boy 52 Vast Systems of Ancient Caverns on Mars May Have Bat Causes Commotion 24 Captured Enormous Floodwaters 9 Bolts, Slings, and Natural Anchors 30 We Found What We Weren’t Looking For 44 Central Indiana Grotto trip to King Leo and Hells What’s in the Pack 98, 114 Hole Caves 4 Why There Are No Photos With This Story 82

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