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Cascade Caver Newsletter of the Cascade Grotto of the National Speleological Society Cascade Caver Newsletter of the Cascade Grotto of the National Speleological Society June 1996, Volume 35 NO.6 This Month Featuring: The Deepest and Longest Caves in the West Newton c.". King Co •• W./Js'hlngt0r:' DEADHORSE CAVE BI'Vl"I'on compo" O">d To~ Sur"~1 by ,,.,. ()r."on (;rotlo ot Jh. NSS. COt'TtCJiiN by Jom N••tond. 2.72. Proms Looking North ~c -The Corklcr •• =.-. I / -- •.•..•..• o 10 20 I ml,.r., , 'BoIlPllch' ~ 12R \ \, .••.•.. ,..... r • ." ISSN 0008-7211 Copyright 1996 by the Cascade Grotto. All rights reserved The Cascade Caver is published approximately 10 times a year by the Cascade Grotto, a local chapter of the National Speleological ( Society. Any material in this newsletter that is not copyrighted by an individual or another group may be copied or reprinted by internal organizations of the National Speleological Society provided that credit is given to the author and to the Cascade Caver and that a copy of the newsletter containing the material is sent to the Editor. Other organizations must contact the Editor. Opinions expressed in the Cascade Caver are not necessarily those of the Cascade Grotto, the editors, or the NSS. Unsigned articles may be attributed to one of the editors. All material to be published, subscription requests, renewals, address changes, and exchange publications should be sent to the Grotto address. GROTTO MEMBERSHIP Membership in the Cascade Grotto is $10.00 per year. UPCOMING EVENTS Subscription to the Cascade Caver is free to regular June 21 Grotto Meeting 7:00pm members. Membership for each additional family July 19 Grotto Meeting 7:00pm member is $2.00 per year. Subscription to the Cascade July 27-28 Vancouver Island Caves Caver is S 10.00 per year. Depart from Port Angles 7/26 at 9:30pm. Contact Scott Davis GROTTO ADDRESS (206)862-1035. Cascade Grotto; P.O. Box 75663; Seattle, WA 98125- August 5-9 NSS Convention - Salida Colorado 0663. This post office box should be used for both the August 16 Grotto Meeting 7:00pm grotto and for the Cascade Cm'er. August 23-25 Cave Ridge, depth push in Newton Cave. Contact Bill Bennett GROTTO OFFICERS (206)255-1466. Chairman Paul Ostby (206) 823-5107 Aug. 31- Sept 2 Northwest Regional - Ely Nevada. Vice Chainnan Tom Strong (206) 938-3957 Sec/Treasurer Bruce Nagata (206) 706-0339 COVER This months cover is a composite of maps of Newton OTHER POSITIONS Cave from Jeff Forbes and Deadhorse Cave by Jim Trip Coord. Jim Harp (206) 745-1010 Nieland. Librarian Bill&Christine Bennett (206) 255-1466 LATE GROTTO DUES Regional Rep. Ben Tompkins (206) 546-8025 The people listed below still have not paid their dues for Editors Paul Ostby (206) 823-5107 1996. This will be their last issue of the Caver until they email: [email protected] have paid up again. If there are any questions about this Mark Sherman (206) 524-8780 please give Bruce Nagata a call. email: [email protected] Steve Sprague (360) 387-3162 Bill Bailey Sean O'Leary email: [email protected] Bob Brown Don Robertson Ron Erickson Rob Stitt Steve Fogdall Tom Strong t MEETINGS. I Jason Haworth Steve Thatcher Regular grotto meetings are held monthly at 7:00pm on Steve Kadel Ben Tompkins the third Friday of each month at the University of Tom Miller Mike Wagner Washington, Room 6, in the basement of Johnson Hall. Please see the map on the back cover of this issue. Cascade Caver - June 1996 40 Minutes from the May 17th Grotto them with a good introduction. Steve and Paul Ostby had their computers there so that when the Meeting survey teams completed their tasks, they could - see what their plots looked like. The Grotto received a letter from George Moore, who is with the Department of Geosciences at Twenty-one people showed up for the meeting Oregon State University. In his letter he said that on this wet miserable night. there is a gift shop in P0l1 To\vnsend, WA that is selling stalagmites. He couldn't remember the name of the store and asked if someone from the Cascade Grotto could check into this. If anyone Deadhorse Surpasses Ape Cave In is going over that way, check around the town Length and see if you can find this store then notify Paul From Larry McTigue Ostby. Scott Lilill of the Willamette Valley Grotto We also received a letter from Candice Leek of Emailed me to say that Deadhorse Cave has now Jacksonville, Florida dealing with the damage surpassed Ape Cave in length making it the that occurred in Floyd Collins Crystal Cave. The longest lava tube in the continental US as well as vandals that caused the damage pleaded guilty. the longest cave in Washington state. The sentencing will be May 22nd and Candice The survey length of Ape Cave is 12,810ft was asking that everyone please write the judge, (3,904 m) and Deadhorse is currently at 13,450ft condeming what these people have done and (4,100 meters). Scott says they still have several asking him for a stiff sentence. (ed note - for hundred feet to go so, the final figure may more on this please see the next page). surpass 14,000ft. Scott Davis talked about a couple of upcoming trips: one to a mine in the Olympics on June 1st 1997 Cave Management Symposium and one to Gordan River B.C. The 1997 Karst and Cave Management Scott also brought in several copies of the Pits Symposium, highlighting forest karst and Domes puzzle that Steve printed as the cover ecosystems, will be held in Bellingham, to the last Caver. The first three people to solve Washington during the week of October 6 -11. the puzzle received prizes. Tom Strong won the This event is being sponsored by Northwest first prize which was a maglight. Caving Association, BC Ministry of Forests, British Columbia Speleological Federation, There was a discussion on the grotto meeting VICEG, and the NSS Conservation and time and place. It turns out that after being in Management Section. Start making your plans Johnson Hall for about 10 years, the Geology to attend this event now. department, who runs the building didn't realize that we were having meetings there. If you're interested in helping with this symposium or need further information, please After the business was complet~d, Steve Sprague .. contact Rob Stitt at (206) 283-2283 or Email at talked a bit about surveying and then broke [email protected]. You can also find more i - :: people up into teams and we surveyed around information on the World Wide Web at: Johnson Hall. The majority of the people at the http://www.halcyon.com/samaralncms97/ meeting had never surveyed before so it provided Cascade Caver - June 1996 4\ Floyd Collins Crystal Cave Sentencing Cavernas de Vernado, Costa Rica by Candice Leek by David Thomas (Ed note - last month we printed the article entitled: 3 Plead Guilty to Destroying Crystal Kristin and I just returned from 2 weeks in Costa Cave in Theft Spr~e. This month's article, from Rica. We thought it would be a"nice change of Candice Leek was taken from the Caver's temperature and climate from February in D.Igest,#-"')'" )-'_-'. ) Seattle. We were right. While backpacking in the rain forest, we saw scarlet macaws, 4 species ( For those of you who took time to write letters of monkeys, toucans, parrots, hummingbirds, to the Judge in the Floyd Collins Crystal Cave Jesus Christ birds (they walk on water), vandalism case, you might be happy to know that butterflies, even jaguar tracks. On a river trip, they may have had a positive influence on the we saw lots of iguanas, caiman (mini- Judge's sentencing decision. crocodiles), sloths, more monkeys, and birds. Many people with Mammoth Cave National Park On February 23, 1996, we had a very geologic and the US Attorneys Office worked long and day. We were about 3 hours n011hof San Jose, hard to investigate and prosecute this case and (Costa Rica), near the Nicaraguan border. After they deserve the credit for pushing this cave some midnight searching for a volcanic hot vandalism case through to the end. I am sure spring, we found it at 1 a.m. Actually a hot river your backing, provided by all of the letters you a few feet deep and 20 feet wide, it was 101°F. sent to the judge, added an important point of It's headwaters were a kilometer m:vayin a lava view for the judge to consider, i.e., this was a field on the slopes of Arenal, an active volcano 1." major crime and the citizens of the United States that continuously vents visible steam, smoke, will not tolerate the type of mean-spirited and lava. While driving around, we could see destruction of resources within our National the lava pouring down the upper slopes of the Parks that these crimes represented. volcano, glowing red-orange. Kristin was off playing in a (hot) waterfall and I was peacefully, The sentences handed down by the judge were: buoyantly soaking when Arenal started to rumble Perpetrator 1: 33 months in federal prison very loudly. It made me jump and for a second followed by 3 years probation and 550 hours of or two, I wondered if this was another large community service work. eruption (the last large eruption having killed 57 Perpetrators 2 & 3: 21 months each in federal people). But it died downed in a few seconds prison followed by 3 years probation and 500 and kept happening each 10-15 minutes.
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