THE NORTHEASTERN CAVER CUMULATIVE INDEX (VOLUMES I – XL, 1969 – 2009) by Steve Higham rev. 0: 12/15/09 1 ABBREVIATED TABLE OF CONTENTS (Note: If viewing as a PDF file, this list corresponds to the bookmark list.) ARTICLE INDEX page 4 Accidents, safety, hazards, rescue page 4 Biology page 5 Book reviews page 6 Cartoons and drawings page 6 Cave description and exploration page 7 Cave lengths and lists page 16 Caving organizations, conventions, meetings page 16 Conservation, ownership, management page 18 Cover photos page 20 Equipment and techniques page 21 Geology, hydrology page 22 History page 23 Humor, poetry, fiction, creative page 25 Northeastern Caver page 27 Other page 27 People page 28 AUTHOR INDEX page 29 CAVE INDEX page 77 Connecticut page 77 Maine page 79 Massachusetts page 82 New Hampshire page 87 New Jersey page 89 New York – Albany County page 90 New York – Essex County page 94 New York – Hamilton County page 96 New York – Jefferson County page 97 New York - Schoharie County page 101 Rhode Island page 107 Vermont page 108 Ontario page 114 Quebec page 114 2 The codes used in the cave index are as follows: a accident, rescue g geology/hydrology o owners, access, gating b biology h history p photograph c conservation i illustration r rumor or report d description m map x location "(S)" indicates that the article appears in the Speleodigest for the year of publication. Each entry is coded "xx-yyy", where the first two digits indicate the volume and the digits after the dash indicate the page number. Also, "(abs)" = abstract. The table below shows the first page number of each issue in volumes I to XXXL: ISSUE NO. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 VOL. YEAR FIRST PAGE OF ISSUE 1 1969 1 13 25 43 55 67 79 91 101 113 125 137 2 1970 1 9 17 25 45 (Issues 4 and 5 were published in 1971) 3 1972 1 11 25 39 53 65 77 85 101 117 127 141 4 1973 1 11 21 31 39 55 69 83 93 101 111 121 5 1974 1 13 25 39 53 -67- 89 6 1975 1 27 55 79 103 127 7 1976 1 27 59 83 107 127 8 1977 1 25 53 81 101 121 9 1978 -1- 57 81 -105- 10 1979 1 37 51 81 11 1980 1 23 45 65 12 1981 1 29 61 97 13 1982 1 29 69 96 14 1983 1 35 45 75 15 1984 1 21 43 69 16 1985 1 35 57 93 (There was a single-sheet vol. 16, no. 1-1/2, pages 55 and 56) 17 1986 1 -27- 91 111 (There was a single-sheet vol. 17, no. 1-1/2, pages 25 and 26.) 18 1987 1 31 55 85 19 1988 1 27 67 99 20 1989 1 29 61 95 21 1990 1 33 65 97 22 1991 1 33 65 97 23 1992 1 35 73 105 24 1993 1 37 73 109 141 25 1994 1 35 67 101 26 1995 1 39 73 107 27 1996 1 37 69 101 28 1997 1 37 71 107 29 1998 1 39 73 109 30 1999 1 35 71 105 31 2000 1 41 73 105 32 2001 1 41 75 107 33 2002 1 39 73 107 34 2003 1 35 67 101 35 2004 1 39 71 103 36 2005 1 35 73 105 37 2006 1 41 79 119 38 2007 1 35 71 103 39 2008 1 35 69 101 40 2009 1 37 71 107 3 ARTICLE INDEX Accidents, safety, hazards, rescues Accidents Can Happen/ Hendrickson, Melissa; Hendrickson,Eric 32-94 (S) Accidents Can Happen/ Hendrickson, Melissa; Hendrickson,Eric 32-94 (S) "Trapped" in Clarksville Cave/ Rubin, Paul 21-38 'X Files' at Williams Talc Mines, The/ Keough, John 30-102 (S) 19 Explorers, Trapped in Knox Cave, Rescued/ anon. 1-138 1978 Cave Rescue Training Session/ Field-Sloan, Suka 8-145 2 Youths Lost Since Friday Are Found/ anon. 12-10 25 Years Ago: The Jim Mitchell Tragedy/ Porter, Chuck 21-9 Accident Report/ Foote, Wayne 1-27 Activities of the NCRC Coordinator during the Clarksville Cave Rescue, Clarksville, New York/ Hall, Warren 12-19 Additional Facts About the Schroeders Pants Cave Incident/ Downey, Tim 37-98 Analysis of the Onesquethaw Cave Rescue/ Rubin, Paul A. 22-10 Assistance in Hanor's Cave/ Allen, George 29-44 Bat Incidents At Childrens' Camps, New York State, 1998-2002/ Robbins, Amy; Eidson, Millicent; Keegan, Mary; Sackett, Douglas; Laniewicz, Brian 36-63 Bat Rabies Caused Death of Girl/ anon. 26-110 Beware! The Sinkhole Season is Right Now/ VanVoris, Arthur (submitter);Snyder, David M. 8-61 Bill Gregg 1948-2008/ anon.; Porter, Chuck; Rubin, Paul 40-13 Bypassing the Gunbarrel/ Cullen, Jim 3-121 Cave Rescue and Aid/ Kingsley, Karl 5-83 Cave Rescue and Search March First Aid Session 1977/ Kingsley, Karl 8-36 Cave Safety/ Furfaro, Danielle 36-114 Caver Escapes After Greasing/ Smith, Toms 11-55 Caver Gets Nasty Surprise/ Gardner, Jennifer; al-Rikabi, Ramsey 36-6 Clarksville Cave Accident/ Nardacci, Mike 29-8 Clarksville Cave Body Recovery/ Warner, Mike; Davis, Emily 32-12 Clarksville Cave Dive Accident Profile/ Martuscello, Mike 32-11 Clarksville Cave Search and Rescue/ Hauser, Doug 12-13 Clarksville Rescue/ Schaefer, Richard J. 12-104 Collapse Danger/ Horncastle, Bruce 7-125 Crooked Swamp Cave Incident March 27-30, 1982, The/ Hall, Warren 14-3 Deadly Thrill of Caving/ Van Voris, Arthur, The (submitter); Butcher, Lee 3-133 Dear Members of the NSS/ Downey, Tim 39-58 Diver Drowns in Quarry/ Keays, Alan 36-76 Emergency Medical Techniques/ Polizzotto, Gary 7-14,7-69,7-102,7-111,7-142 Falling Rocks! - To be or not to be...Flattened!/ Botto,Larry 26-89 Falls Cliff Cave Rescue Report/ Hazelton, Steve 39-79 Fatality at Knox/ Gregg, Bill 6-57 Firefighter rescues teen stuck in cave/ Richardson, Franci; Hanchett, Doug 32-44 First Annual Bob Schertfeger Memorial Training Session/ Kingsley, Karl 6-105 Flaming Sinkholes/ Hazelton, Steve 31-108 Flash-flood hazard in Skull Cave, Albany Co., NY/ Kastning, Ernst 5-7 Flood in McFail's/ Zimmerman, Bob 27-77 (S) Flood!/ Engel, Thom 17-108 Flooding in Schoharie County/ Gregg, Bill 5-70 Floyd Collins Revisited/ Dunn, Russell 29-113 Four Cavern Explorers Wait Out Flood; 3 Perish/ Kingsley, Karl (submitter); anon. 6-53 Gage Cave Accident Report/ Porter, Chuck 26-114 Gunbarrel Incident, The - One: The Packowner's Tale/ Vinyard, Roland 17-99 Gunbarrel Incident, The - Two: Another View/ Pauley, Clayton 17-100 Hazard in McFails Cave/ Porter, Chuck 38-110 Her Leg Just Wouldn't Budge/ Colquhoun, Lorna; Higham, Steve (submitter) 31-130 High Tide at Pompeys/ McLuckie, Steve 29-125 Hiker Falls to Death in Copper Mine Shaft/ anon. 39-71 House Vanishes into Giant Sinkhole/ VanVoris, Arthur H.(submitter) anon. 4-3 How the Caves were Thwarted/ anon. 12-11 Hugh W. Blanchard, Jr. 1929-2008/ Palmer, Art 40-18 Incident at Becker's Cave/ Dunn, Russell 23-124 James G. Mitchell and the Schroeders Pants Cave Tragedy/ Speece, Jack H. 37-92 Junkyard Cave Body Recovery/ Schindel, Geary 26-69 letter, Crooked Swamp Cave accident/ Hall, Warren 13-39 Man Dies After Plummeting into Large Hole that Opened Beneath his Home / anon. 37-48 Man Found After Weeks in Cave/ Schofield, Hugh 36-5 McFail's Accident/ Addis, Bob 12-108 McFail's Cave Accident/ McMahon, Jill 18-83 McFail's Cave Committee/ Addis, Bob 13-15 McFail's Committee/ Addis, Bob 12-108 McFail's Hole Dog Rescue, The/ Davis, Emily 35-78 Mid-Winter First Aid Course/ Kingsley, Karl 7-12 Mid-Winter First Aid Snow Session/ Kingsley, Karl 8-9 Mine Safety: A Closer Look/ Plante, Alan; Higham, Steve 25-28 (S) N.H. Camp Releases Details of Cave Rescue/ anon. 39-71 National Cave Rescue Seminar/ Cook, Tom 8-150 New Rabies Vaccine/ Jones, Dave 8-18 No Sign of Missing Antarctic Duo/ anon. 36-110 Northern NY Miner Killed in Ceiling Collapse/ anon. 39-71 NRO Cave Rescue and Search/ Kingsley, Karl 6-33 NRO Cave Search & Rescue Call-list Update/ Field-Sloan, Suka 8-137 On "The Spectre of Madonna Cave"/ Pace, Norm 7-104 Onesquethaw Cave Flood Mystery/ anon. 39-106 Onesquethaw Cave Incident, The/ Engel, Thom 22-6 Onesquethaw Flood of '71, The/ Plante, Al 22-40 Panic in Sri Lankan Paradise/ anon. 36-6 Police Investigate Upstate NY Man's Fatal Fall While Hiking/ anon. 39-71 Rabid Bat Victim Getting New Vaccine/ Porter, Chuck 11-75 Rabid Vampire Bats Kill in Brazil/ Gibbs, Tom 36-109 Rabies Facts/ Winfrey, Cathy 25-10 Reflection, A/ Engel, Thom 32-21 4 Rescue at Clarksville Cave/ Dumont,Kevin A. 22-72 Rescue at Clarksville Cave/ Rubin, Paul A.; Stephens, Chuck 15-62 Rescue at Gage Caverns/ Engel, Thom; Armstrong, Joe; Janesky, Steve 32-113 Rescue at Keyhole Cave/ Barton,Tom; Douglas,Craig; Errandonea,Francois; Gasser,Morrie; Hartshorne,Toinette; Hollick,Dave; McLuckie,Steve;Mobley,Emily; Porter,Chuck 29-78 Rescue at McFail's Cave/ Gottlieb, Mark 19-93 Rescue at McFail's/ Addis, Bob 13-3 Rescue Considerations Beyond the Northwest Dome, McFails Cave/ Rubin, Paul 19-95 Rescue in Clarksville Cave/ Engel, Thom 18-94 Rescue in Knox Cave/ Martin, Rob 30-76 Rescue Who?/ Herpich, Pam 6-107 Rockfall in Surprise Cave/ McLuckie, Steve 31-128 Safety Note/ anon. 1-93 Schroeders Pants Cave/ Lyon, Christian 37-102 Schroeders Pants Cave: An Eyewitness Account/ Thybony, Scott 39-14 Simulated Underwater Cave Rescue – Evaluation of Equipment and Technique/ Elton, Dick 8-89 Sinkhole Pulls in 5 Cars/ VanVoris, Arthur H.