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Speleo Digest History 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 The original was sold out, but the NSS has a few reprints still available as of June 2006 Edited by Scott Fee Summary Title Contents Cave Index Author Index Publications Buy One Now

1989 Article Title Index

• 1894 Accounts of a Paulding County, Georgia, Cave 424
• The 1988-89 Nita Ka Expedition 289
• 1989 Costa Rican Expedition 269
• 7 Up ``Upstream'' 93

• The Adventures of Captain Carbide 447
• Air Currents Underground 373
• An Account of Fuzzy Coon Cave 121
• Alcoholic Isopods 387
• Alleghany County's Hospital Cliff Caves 214
• Annie's Cave Description 242
• Another Look at Lithium Batteries 335
• Another New Cave in Sharpsburg 125
• Another Point of View on Cave Mapping 329
• April Cave's Old Resurgence 394
• Arawak Cave 283
• Arizona Ridgewalk 23
• Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves 41
• Asplenium Abscissum in Alabama 381

• The Baby Gel Cell 337
• Bad Air Detection 377
• Bailey Cave and Bailey Cave Annex 82
• Bailey's Cave 201
• Ballad Hymn of the Lechuguilla Cave Project 29
• Bat Cave: 111
• Bat Count Plan For Mystery Cave 380
• The Bats of Nickajack 423
• Bear Cave Explored 150 Years Ago 422
• The Bear Facts About a Cave Near Whitehall 146
• A Bedtime Story for Budding Cavers 430
• Beerflight of Gypkap 95
• Being Prepared for Outside Winter Activities 369
• The Belay 437
• Berkeley Underground The Land of a Thousand Caves 225
• Beyond the End 151
• Beyond the Twilight Zone 427
• Big Hammer Cave 13
• The Big Island of Hawaii 65
• Big Loop Cave 144
• Big Manhole: Treasure Beneath the Desert 134
• The Big One 322
• Biology of Stone Cave in Butler County, Kansas 381
• Blow Hole Survey 192
• The Book of Donald Glenn Davis 96
• Born to Cave 246
• Brady's Hidden Cave 204
• Bray Spring Cave 103
• A Brief Look at Caving in the Philippines 325
• A Brief Review of Diving Exploration in Schoharie Caverns 150
• Build Your Own Seat Harness 347
• Burfield Hollow Cave 107
• Bustamante Area Caving 299

• Canteen Springs Cave 194
• Canyon Ridgewalk 193
• Canyons in Paradise 431
• Carl's Good Caverns and Quick Reducer Cave 17
• The Carlsbad Caverns Elevator 418
• The Carlsbad Caverns Elevator-2 418
• Catastrophic Discovery 434
• Cave Camping 367
• Cave Descriptions of Botetourt and Alleghany County 209
• Cave D.T.'s 438
• The Cave Down the Street... 92
• Cave Measurements 433
• Cave Reports 66
• Cave Surveying-The Sketcher 330
• Cave Water Fusion Achieved by MVG Research Team 446
• Cavern Lake Cave 18
• Cavers Anonymous 433
• Caves of Fundy National Park 265
• Caving As Play 409
• Caving in Brazil: Bahia 262
• Caving in Eastern Europe 273
• Caving in Iceland 278
• Caving in Puerto Rico 170
• Caving in the Phillipines 324
• Caving Through a Stereoscope 391
• Caving...Why? 443
• Chiquibul 1988 255
• Chockstone Cave, Lost Creek System: It's Not Just a Boulder Pile Anymore 56
• Cleanup in Poplar Cave 9
• A Clearer View of Cave Diving 339
• Close-to-the-Edge 264
• Cold Hands, Warm Heart? Stone Cold? 356
• Common Paleozoic Fossils Found in Northwest Georgia Caves 385
• Connect or Die 305
• The Costa Rican Expedition 272
• Crimes Against Kulaa 444
• Crodson Spring Cave 108
• Crosley Crack 91
• Crump's Cave Survey Project 101
• Cueva Borbollon-Deep in the Heart of Mexico 307
• Cueva Inclinada 297
• Cueva Tres Pisos 303

• Dark Victory 143
• Dark Walls, Cold Feet 94
• Death from the P-Delta Effect 410
• A Devil's Dictionary of Caving 438
• Don't Use Two Eyes With Your Suuntos 332
• Doug Green Cave 5
• Down and Dirty Latitude and Longitude 343
• Down Into the Grand Canyon 126
• Down to the Edge of Night 315
• Down Under the Valley 186
• Duffys' Well 35
• Dye Test at Spanish Cave 404
• Dye Tracing of the Honeycomb-Fulford-Blue Butt System 403

• East Ice Cave: Where Is It? 161
• An Eastern European Ascender 349
• El Capitan Cave 20
• The End of Innocence 436
• England: Mother Country Caving! 276
• Equipment for the New Caver 362
• Equipment Review 345
• Equipment Review 346
• Ethel's Quarry Caves 168
• The Ex-Commercial Caves of Pennsylvania 419
• Excerpts From the Glacier Grotto Prince of Wales Expedition 19
• Explosives and Exploration 359
• Exstream Cave 32
• Extending the Life of Worn Toes of Caver's Boots 354

• Farlow's Cave 154
• Fear & Loathing in the Chili Bowl 27
• The Five Caves of Taylor 82
• Fletcher's AWOL Cave 239
• The Floyd Collins Story 413
• Four Balcony Pit Cave 30
• Fourmile Run Cave 223
• Fuell's Fruit Cave 231
• Fulford's New Discovery 59
• Full Circle 135
• Full Yellow Jacket 174

• Gateway To Hell, Hidden River Complex 97
• The Geology of the Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves 389
• Go West Young Man-Powell Cave 105
• Grand Grub Hole 26
• Great Scott Cave 129
• Gypkap II: Pushing the Frontier of Caving Technique 365

• Hammer and Pill Box Caves 203
• Hazards of Dehydration 361
• Heat Packs 362
• Helen's Hidden Nightmare 69
• Hell of a Pit 240
• Hell's Canyon 70
• Hey Buddy, Got a Light? 337
• Hints for Keeping Comfy 356
• Hoo, Hoo, Hoo! It's Shoe Goo II! 355
• Hosterman's Pit 169
• How Things Work: Electric Lamps 446
• The Huautla School of Advanced Caving, Oaxaca 313
• Hughes-Scarborough Well 106
• Hugh's Hole (circa late 1970's) 234
• Hydrogeology of Thunder Maker Cave 399
• Hypothermia 362

• Illuminating Facts for Electric Cavers 334
• Improve Your Coveralls 356
• Indian Draft Cave 211
• In Search of the Big Springs Cave System 73
• In Search of the Deepest Cave: Proyecto Papalo-1989 311
• The Incomplete Guide to Cave Photography 365
• It Seemed To Go On Forever! 87

• Jemez Cave 136
• Jewell Cave Project Begins 173
• Jewel of the Desert 68
• Jinxed in Links 448
• Jones Quarry Cave Geology 388
• July First Weekend at Treasure Cave 267
• Just Another Cold Winter Day 90

• Kagey's Skull & Bones Cave 206
• Kauai Caving 286
• Kelly Hollow and Other Small Caves 130
• Kentucky Cave Log: May 28-29, 1989 119
• Kicking Horse Glacier Cave 16
• Kiehl's Cave 165
• Kubla Kahn 248

• Ladd Cave, Trigg County 104
• The Latest Cave Radio Work at Mystery Cave 407
• Lava Beds National Monument 50
• Lawrence County Caves 81
• Lechuguilla-Pushing the Outback 141
• Life Histories of the Amblyopsidae with an Emphasis on Reproductive Cycles 382
• Light Test 335
• Lighting Up Your Suunto 332
• Lisanby Cave, Caldwell County 115
• A Living Alternative 360
• Locating Caves on the Surface 340
• (Look Out For) Deadman's Cave! 28
• The Lost Passage of Petroglyph Cave 253
• Lost Cave 205
• Lost River Caverns 163
• Lyco Sang Pit 235

• The Magic Lamp 336
• A Major Breakthrough in Little Brush Creek Cave 199
• Marigold Cave 191
• McHenry's Pit Cave 84
• The Measurement of Relative Humidity In Cave Meteorology Projects 395
• Meditation 132
• Memorial Weekend Wanderings 232
• Metz Cave Description 242
• Mitchell Cave 227
• Montgomery County Cave Survey Update, 1988-1989 176
• More Find in the Backbone System at Mt. Adams 218
• More From the ``No-Nothing Caver'' 442
• More Lawrence County Caves 89
• Morris Hill Cave 212
• Mount Pleasant Cave 210
• Much Ado About Nothing 9
• Mud Cave 208
• Musings of a Recently Rescued Caver 438
• The Mutant Rat: A ``Reasonably'' True Story 247
• My Most Interesting Cave Artifact 432
• Myers Cave 235
• Mystery Cave Bat Count 379

• Name That Cave!? 331
• Nancy Wynn Cove 180
• New Cave Surveyed in Chilliwack Area 268
• New Caves, Mt. St. Helens 216
• New England's Caves 133
• The New Frontier of the Manitou Grand Caverns 53
• New Leads Explored in Laudolff Cave 243
• New Passage in Taylor Pit Cave 245
• New Waterfall-Second Trip-Another View 64
• A New Year's Trip Report 95
• The No-Nothing Caver 439
• Northshore Caves 127
• 'Nother Cave found in the Shasta Valley/Pluto's Cave Caving Area 35

• Ocala Caverns 62
• The Odyssey of Old Blowing 6
• Olivet Church Cave 177
• One Little, Two Little...Get the Picture? 147
• One Mile Tower, Chillagoe, Australia 251
• One Quarter Twist Cave 196
• Ord's-Strong Cave System 77
• Over The Mountain And Thru The Hill To Sherfields Cave We Go! 24

• Patton Cave: Miller County's Wet Wild Wonder 28
• A Pearl of a Trip to Some Oyster River Caves 266
• Pembroke Spring Cave 101
• Photomonitoring: A Cave Management Project 407
• Pipe Survey Trip-The Laudolff and Ledgewood Orchards Caves 244
• Pitiful Cave 184
• Poodle Cave 7
• Poor Caver's Vertical System 348
• Poor Farm Cave 225
• Portable Battery Charger 333
• Powell's Cave 188
• Proyecto Papalo 309
• Puerto Rico Caving Snapshots 171
• The Pseudo-Karst Challenge 429
• Pseudokarst in Hong Kong and Japan 284

• Quarry Hole 79

• Radon Test in Charles Town Cave 408
• Rainy Cave 37
• Ralph Jackson Trailside Cave 80
• Record Pit Found in Alaska 17
• Red Tail Chimney 195
• Reference Guide to Drawing Cave Maps 329
• Rehobeth Church Cave 219
• The Relationship Between Dynamited and Big Caves 216
• The Relative Dating of Carbide Lamps 416
• Return to Curry Chasm 187
• The Resurvey of Hills-Bruffey Cave 221
• Rock Springs Cave 85
• A Row of Saltpeter Caves 186

• Safety and Techniques 364
• Safety Comes First 361
• Saltpetre Cave 206
• Sanity 378
• Sea Caves of Acadia National Park 122
• Sea Caves of the Tres Marias 303
• Sea Caves of Vandenberg Air Force Base 48
• The Search for the Dalles Cave 162
• Shaw Hill Bat Cave 117
• Shelby's (Hodge) Cave 100
• The Shields of Grand Caverns 394
• Shoehorn Cave 148
• Show Caves of Hungary 275
• Silvertip 1988 131
• Simmons Cave 91
• Simple Knee Pad Modification Increases Comfort 358
• Sketching to Scale 331
• The Sky Burned, the Earth Shook, and all the Bunny Rabbits Ran Away 45
• Some Speculations On The Geographical Distribution Of Ice Caves In Oregon: 405
• Some Tips for Using Canvas Grip 354
• Speleogenesis: A Spacey Theory 432
• Spring-Loaded Suggestion 347
• Stairstep Dome Cave 46
• Still More From the No-Nothing Caver 449
• A Stitch in Kind Saved Mine 350
• Stewart Run Sink Caves 241
• The Story of J. D. Howard ``The Father of the Lava Beds'' 421
• Summer Bat Colonies in Caves 378
• Sunbeam Cave 33
• The Surtshellir-Stefanshellir Lava Tube System 278
• Survey Update 268
• Swallow Pond Horror Hole 185
• Sweden Cove Update 178
• Sweet Dreams Beyond The Aragonightmare 137

• The Te Reinga Cave System 321
• Thorny Cave 247
• Thrasher Pit Cave 87
• Three More Sea Caves on Monhegan Island 123
• Thunder Maker Cave 3
• Tidwell Gap Cave 11
• Tips on Caving 429
• The Tomb of Loch Woozer 238
• Tower Maze Cave, Jamaica 282
• The Train to Oligunuk Cave 417
• Triple Arch Cave Remapping 195
• Tread Lightly 94
• Tunichil Muknal 260
• Twenty-Six Hours in Dynamited Cave 160
• Twice in a Decade or Nightmare on Ord Road Part II 78
• Two Connecticut Caves 61
• Tyson Spring Cave 128

• Ughub Cave 325
• Underwater Cave Exploring 338
• Union County's Bat Caves 63
• Utah's Deepest Pit 196
• Uvala (Hudson) Cave 109

• Vanport Caving-Fun for All 167
• The Versatile Gibbs: Spelean Shunt/Floating Gibbs 348

• Ward's Sink, Pasco County 62
• Wartime Use of Caves 420
• What If... 64
• When Men Caved 447
• Why Do You Go Caving? 443
• Will the Real Arco Tunnel Please Stand Up 71
• Wind Cave Project 172
• Window at Upstairs Downstairs 95
• World-Class Lava Tube Caves of Cheju 287

• Z Rig Rescue/Hauling System 349