I M E E. overlying passage too delicate to enter ? too tight 5 The Boomerang Rite of Passage Sump, 3 feet long at low water

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1 Opera House ring of arch of white moonmilk large submerged rocks bone dike popcorn on stalks long overlying passage too delicate to enter 7 line of white helictites up to. inches long inch diameter spathite Flowstone with castings Billabong Falls Lake Yama Yama The Boomerang ite of Passage Sump, feet long at low water U U B I G A T I varves and glacial sediments I V P A S S A G 7 tight, might continue overflow stream entry bones in calcite formation Surface streambed NTANC 0 datum too delicate and low to enter bacon rinds too delicate for survey inch rimstone dam, inactive inch rimstone dam, inactive helictites and straws 7 floor level passage too delicate to enter popcorn N Nm 999 idgery-oo Falls Kangaroo Island cont. ft. wide by 6 ft. High PLAN VIW fissure too delicate to enter dikes 6 WALKABOUT CAV Nullarbar Plain stream cascades down basalt floor 8 Wollomombi Falls possible canyon passage goes connection with falls 7 (lower) LGN passage wall probable passage wall underlying passage wall vertical drop and depth in feet passage height, in feet, above and below water level PINC OF WALS ISLAN, ALASKA Surveyed with compass, clinometer and tape July 9, 999 and August, 00, by P. Smith, J. Solominsky, B. oe, P. Hadfield, S. Lewis and K. Allred. ap by K. and C. Allred. Surveyed length:,9 feet (9. meters) Vertical extent: 8 feet (7.6 meters) TONGASS CAV POJCT Bedrock is Heceta limestone underwater wall rock fill gravel fill meters near sump slope, splays downward change in ceiling height entrance dripline feet 80 tiny bridge deep terminal sump O W N U N streamflow and pool dripstone flowstone sumped passage bacon rinds too delicate for survey NTANC too delicate and low to enter feet 0 lead continues passage ends too delicate to enter The Boomerang varves and glacial sediments A T I P A S S A G idgery-oo Falls bolt helictites and straws bones in calcite formation 6 inch rimstone dam, inactive ite of Passage Sump U U B I G I V tight, might go 80 fissure too delicate to enter Nullarbar Plain stream cascades down basalt floor Billabong Falls Lake Yama Yama POJCT POFIL possible canyon passage goes 80 Wollomombi Falls 00 connection with falls high water sump 0 0 deep terminal sump O W N U N 60 C 00 by Carlene Allred The Alaskan Caver, Volume 7 No. page 6

2 AP OF WALKABOUT CAV (see page 7) Walkabout Cave, on Prince of Wales Island, was discovered in July 999 by Pete Smith and John oe. A report and previous addition of the map were published in 000, Vol. 0, # of the Alaskan Caver. The older version of the map was hand drawn, with less passage than is displayed on this new update. In 00 additional passage was discovered and map beyond what is now called the ite of Passage Sump. The updated map was drawn digitally using Corel raw. NSS CONVNTION... continued from page Sometimes a person tries to prepare for everything while planning for the NSS Convention in an unfamiliar place. And sometimes it is just not enough I was in the idwest roughly days when the distinctive bulls-eye rash appeared on my right leg, indicating Lymes isease from a deer tick. Unfortunately for me, an upset stomach from the medication tainted my whole convention experience. I was feeling sorry for myself until I spoke to the family from Wisconsin whose V broke down in ilwaukee on the way to the convention. They left it on the side of the road to make arrangements and someone broke into it and stole all of their caving equipment - including wetsuits, cave suits, and helmets. Good start or bad, hundreds of people made the trip to the convention. And whatever, we got over it. y friend Jennifer Schehr and I pulled into arengo, Indiana, after dark Sunday night and couldn't believe the noise from cicadas! If you are not familiar, a cicada looks sort of like an oversized fly and buzzes louder than any noise you ever heard from an insect. Locals often forget about cicadas, as they are on a 7 year cycle. In fact, cicadas were all over the news with people rescheduling their outdoor weddings and other events because of the noise. Camping in our tents, we found that they usually quieted down at night after am. Solution to puzzle on page The Alaskan Caver, Volume 7 No. page 7

3 CHINA XPITION, continued from pg. The Alaskan Caver, Volume 7 No. page 8 (continues on page 9)

4 CHINA XPITION, continued from pg. 8 (to be continued) The Alaskan Caver, Volume 7 No. page 9

5 First Name Last Name Address City State Country ZIP Phone mail Kevin & Carlene Allred th Ave. Ketchikan AK USA Jim Baichtal PO Box 9 Thorne Bay AK USA baichtal@aptalaska.net O jbaichtal@fs.fed.us William H. Bowers 0 S. Bartlett Cir Wasilla AK USA 996 alaska@agateinn.com Lorraine Landis & Kent Carlson 97 Jade Court iddleton USA karstbiosciences@juno.com Kevin Casey Association Libonaise d'tudes Speleogiques PO Box angourieh, al-etn 00 Lebanon od Flynn & r. Cathy Connor 7 Fifth St. ouglas AK USA cathy.connor@uas.alaska.edu r. William. Halliday 60 Cornwall Ct Nashville TN USA 70 bnawrh@webtv.net r. Thomas J. & Nancy Hallinan 67 Wolverine Ln. Fairbanks AK USA r. Timothy & Julia Heaton 6 Willow Street Vermillion S USA 7069 theaton@usd.edu Gwen Herrewig PO Box 6 Girdwood AK USA 9987 gwenherrewig@yahoo.com Col. avid Klinger, N.W Caving ep. PO Box 7 Leavenworth WA USA dklinger@rightathome.com Kurt & Christine Kondzela PO Box 09 Auke Bay AK USA 998 Johanna Kovarik PO Box 9 Thorne Bay AK USA jkovarik@fs.fed.us William "Buddy" Lane and family 0 Hidden Brook Ln Signal ountain TN USA 777 arcel & Connie LaPerriere PO Box 6 Sitka AK USA 998 Aurah Landau / Behrends Juneau AK USA 9980 achel yron & Steve Lewis PO Box Tenakee AK USA 998 tenakeetwo@yahoo.com avid Love 670 arguerite St. Juneau AK USA pandalid@yahoo.com r. aniel onteith 70 Fourth St. ouglas AK USA 998 daniel.monteith@uas.alaska.edu Barbara organ PO Box 98 Thorne Bay AK USA 9999 Nick & olly Olmstead PO Box 7 Tenakee Springs AK USA 998 iane aab 80 N 9th Ave. Tucson AZ USA , 0-7- diane_raab@hotmail.com r. Julius ockwell, Jr 8 eka r. Anchorage AK USA juliusro@alaska.net. Topaz Shryock PO Box 896 Juneau, AK USA 9980 shryock@jsd.k.ak.us r. G. Warren & Constance Smith 0 Ayyar Ct Slippery ock PA USA gwarrensmith@zoominternet.net Gary Sonnenberg PO Box Juneau AK USA rockhnd@earthlink.net avid Valentine 976 North Tongass Ketchikan AK USA 9990 Bruce & Char White 9 asberry Ln. N. Ketchikan AK USA 9990 whojigger@yahoo.com Southeast Alaska Conservation Council 9 Sixth St. Juneau AK USA Whale Pass Community Library PO Box WWP Ketchikan AK USA UAS Caving Club attn: Louis Hoock 00 University r Juneau AK USA 9980 GLACI GOTTO BSHIP October, 007 The Alaskan Caver, Volume 7 No. page 0

6 NOTHN CAV S COSSWO ACOSS:. Branching cave mineral deposit 8. What a caver will usually do while waiting to get on rope 9. Forest acid of S. Alaskan karst. Storage device for archiving survey data. Abbreviation meaning irrelevant. Search for caves. The same length (as in survey shots) 7. A common S.. Alaskan beach flower 8. Sinkhole. First three letters of the name of a prophet who lived in a cave (see Kings 9:9). ising or spring. First two letters in a word meaning rope placement. Weight unit for a small amount of carbide 7. Characteristic of a rope primarily used for ascending and rappelling 0. Inclination reading between one and fifteen. How a cavern seems when it contains an unbelievable amount of beautiful formations. Garb for a warm cave. Garb for a cold, rough cave OWN:. Gadgets used for rope climbing. When you clean up a cave you get of trash. We will meet you the entrance.. Cave entrance. Pronoun for a troglodite of unknown gender 6. evices used for measuring cave passages 7. Caver who grew up on POW 0. Speleothem mineral. Pit. Common entrance anchor 6. For our anchor we will this chock. 9. leave out a cross section 0. how a sketcher will feel when the rest of the survey team gets too far ahead. Where a passage bends 6. low passageway 8. what she did when she consumed her lunch 9. Preposition having to do with cave entry. The trapped bear paced and fro before attacking the intruding caver Answers on page 7 The Alaskan Caver, Volume 7 No. page

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