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High Resolution 2 CRF NEWSLETTER CRF Benefits from Amazon Volume 49, No. 3 Donation Program established 1973 Send all articles and reports for submission to: By: Bob Hoke, CRF Treasurer Laura Lexander, Editor Amazon.com now has a program, called Am- [email protected] azonSmile, that allows customers to specify a 21551 SE 273rd Ct., Maple Valley, WA 98038 charity that will receive a donation of 0.5% of the purchase price of many products purchased The CRF Newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Cave on Amazon.com. CRF is registered with Ama- Research Foundation, a non-profit organization incorpo- zonSmile so you can specify that CRF receive a rated in 1957 under the laws of Kentucky for the purpose donation if your purchase is eligible. The dona- of furthering research, conservation, and education about tion is made by Amazon and is not added to the caves and karst. cost of your purchase. Newsletter Submissions & Deadlines: CRF became part of the AmazonSmile pro- Original articles and photographs are welcome. If intend- gram in mid -2014 and as of May 2021, we have ing to jointly submit material to another publication, please received a total of $1,158 from it. The money is inform the CRF editor. Publication cannot be guaranteed, used to offset some of the Foundations adminis- especially if submitted elsewhere. All material is subject to trative expenses. revision unless the author specifically requests otherwise. To enable donations for your purchases, go For timely publication, please observe these deadlines: to Smile.Amazon.com instead of Amazon.com. The first time you will be asked to select a char- February issue by December 1 it y so just enter “Cave Research Foundation, May issue by March 1 Inc.” and select it. You will then be taken to the August issue by June 1 Amazon.com site. November issue by September 1 After the initial time you will still go to Before submitting material, please see publication Smile.Amazon.com, but you are then taken im- guidelines at: www.cave-research.org mediately to the regular Amazon.com site. Your selected charity will be displayed on the initial NEWSLETTER STAFF: screen. Content Editor: Laura Lexander, [email protected] Assistant Editor: Maddy Ellis, [email protected] Layout/Photos: Ralph Earlandson, [email protected] Mailing: Bob Hoke, [email protected] ©2021 Cave Research Foundation Cave Research Foundation Board of Directors President - Dave West, [email protected] Vice President - Kayla Sapkota, [email protected] Secretary - Ed Klausner, [email protected] Treasurer - Robert Hoke, [email protected] Hamilton Valley Director - Pat Kambesis Directors - Derek Bristol, Jennifer Ellis, Joyce Hoffmaster, Mark Jones, Edward Klausner, Robert Lerch, John Lyles, Benjamin Miller, Kayla Sapkota Operations Council Scott House (Ozarks), John Tinsley (Lava Beds), Karen Willmes (Eastern), Janice Tucker (Carlsbad Caverns), Fofo Gonzalez and Jen Hopper (Sequoia/Kings Canyon) For information about the CRF contact: Dave West 3418 University Pl. On the Cover Baltimore, MD 21218-2831 [email protected] Seth Colston in Ozark Caverns, Lake of the Ozarks State Park, Missouri. Photo by Dan Donations to CRF should be sent to: Lamping. Robert Hoke, CRF Treasurer 6304 Kaybro St. Laurel, MD 20707-2621 [email protected] 3 REGIONAL EXPEDITION REPORTS Elmer’s Trench, Lava Beds National Monument, April 16-26, 2021 By: Ed Klausner The April expedition actually started March White and Black Cave. 27th when Mark Jones, David Donner, and Sasja Day 5: Ed Klausner and Karen Willmes fin- Donner arrived at the monument and began sur- ished White and Black Cave and then surveyed veying. The team surveyed Jumble Alley, Tunnel of Love Cave. Throne Room, Xi Skein, Three O ’clock Bridge, Day 6: Ed Klausner, Elizabeth Miller, and and Ring Around the Bitterbrush Caves over a Karen Willmes returned to Bat Butte and sur- three-day period. All of these caves are in my veyed Humerosa Cave. They then finished the project area: Elmer ’s Trench. The flow that cre- survey of Fire and Ice Cave and moved on to ated all of these caves (122 caves, so far) came survey Kiddie Table Cave. from the Medicine Lake Volcano 35,000 years Day 7: Ed Klausner, Mark Jones, and Paul ago. McMuller, with instructions from Bill Broeckel, Elizabeth Miller and I arrived on April 15th found and surveyed Serendipitous Cave. We and began surveying in Elmer ’s Trench on April then found and surveyed Missed Opportunity 16th. During the next 11 days, Elizabeth Miller, Cave. Mark Jones, Karen Willmes, Paul McMullen, Day 8: Ed Klausner, Elizabeth Miller, Karen Dave Donner, and Sasja Donner accompanied Willmes, and Mark Jones parked at the Balcony me into Elmer ’s Trench to map. We completed Boulevard parking area and headed towards Liz- the survey of seventeen known caves, found and zy Borden Cave. On the way, we found Day in surveyed ten new caves, and eliminated many the Life Cave, Public Enemy Cave and Pika leads because they were either too tight to enter Playground Cave. Mark and Karen surveyed Pi- or too short to count as a cave. (The original ka Playground Cave while Elizabeth and I con- definition of a cave when the project started tinued on to Lizzy Borden. We then went to sur- was 40 feet but later changed to 25 feet. This vey Itchy and Scratchy. Afterwards, we found seemed like a reasonable length with the excep- Rock and Roll Cave and surveyed it as well. tion of an unusual or interesting feature that is Day 9: Ed Klausner, Elizabeth Miller, and shorter than 25 feet.) By the end of the expedi- Karen Willmes set off for Spiders and Snakes tion, we had finished mapping all of the known and Planks, Oh My (which we couldn’t find). caves in Elmer ’s Trench that had been listed for This was the second time we tried to find this us at the start of the project. This is with the cave and either the entrance has collapsed, or exception of Spiders and Snakes and Planks, Oh the GPS location is incorrect. We found and My, neither of which we could find. surveyed Windy Point Cave. We also looked at and eliminated several leads because they were Summary of survey days: either too tight to enter or too short to survey. Day 1: Ed Klausner, Elizabeth Miller, Mark Day 10: Snow Day. Jones, Dave Donner, Sasja Conner to Bat Butte Day 11: Ed Klausner, Karen Willmes, and to survey Reunion Cave. David Donner checked leads south of Fleener Day 2: Ed Klausner and Elizabeth Miller to Chimney Road and surveyed Holofernes Cave, Serendipitous Cave. We thought we found a new Bistro Cave and Sur le Pont Cave (which were cave but later discovered that Double Window all new caves). Cave was actually Starfish Cave. We also sur- veyed Burried in Purshia Cave. There is some remaining work in Elmer ’s Day 3: Ed Klausner and Elizabeth Miller to Trench. A few leads remain on the west side of Bat Butte area to survey Conjunction Cave, the main road through the monument and the Xyster Cave, and Fire and Ice Cave. much smaller area of Elmer ’s Trench east of the Day 4: Ed Klausner, Elizabeth Miller, and main road needs to be ridgewalked. Karen Willmes first went to survey Rubble Drop Special thanks to Dave Hays for the support Tube and then continued on to the northeast ar- given to this project. ea of Elmer ’s Trench to start the survey of Correction In the Ozarks Activities report in the May 2021 issue of this newsletter, Seth Colston was incorrectly referred to as Seth Coltston. We re- gret this error. 4 Elmer’s Trench cave survey: Humeros 112.3’ Jumble Alley 212.7’ Kiddie Table 28.8’ Throne Room 92.2’ Missed Opportunity 37.7’ Xi Skein 65.1’ Serepinditous 286.0’ Three O’Clock Bridge 68.6’ Lizzy Borden Cave 66.8’ Ring Around the Bitterbrush 36.7’ Itchy and Scratchy Cave 53.7’ Porkchop Grotto 33.2’ Rock and Roll Cave 47.2’ Reunion 432.9’ Day in the Life Cave 28.6’ Burried in Purshia 69.0’ Public Enemy Cave 37.3’ Conjugation 68.5’ Pika Playground Cave 40.0’ Xyster 50.9’ Windy Point Cave 56.6’ Fire and Ice 102.7’ Holofernes Cave 53.8’ Rubble Drop Tube 77.1’ Bistro Cave 25.3’ White and Black Cave 265.6’ Sur le Pont Cave 84.0’ Tunnel of Love 37.4’ Total survey Elmer’s Trench 2570.6’ 5 6 7 Ozark Operations Activities, March-July 2021 By: Scott House, with reports by Kayla Sapkota Agency work has continued throughout the (canoe monitoring). After the float, they visited Covid pandemic, with cavers following strict more cave entrances further upriver. protocols both in and out of the caves. June 13, 2021: Mark and Craig monitored and evaluated OZARK NATIONAL SCENIC RIVERWAYS two more caves on the Upper Current near CRF Ozarks works with the Ozark National Sce- Pullt ite. nic Riverways (NPS) under a cooperative cave management agreement. Trips usually originate June 14, 2021: from the NPS/USFS shared field office at Mark was joined by Kirsten Alvey -Mudd and Winona. Jim Mudd to float down and evaluate life in Merritt Rock Cave on the Current River. Nume - May 24, 2021: rous salamanders were counted and some transi- Scott House and park superintendent Jason ent or bachelor bats were utilizing the cave. Lott monitored three caves on the Upper Cur- rent district. All are cultural sites from one era June 15, 2021: or another and all have had some varying de- Mark, Kirsten, and Jim were joined by grees of visitation.
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