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ALPINE KARST
2004
VOL. 1
Editor: Tina Oliphant
Copy Editor: Red Watson

The contents of ALPINE KARST
Copyright 2004 by
Alpine Karst Foundation, Incorporated,
3290 Canyon Mill Road
Ronan, Montana, 59864
oliphant@ronan.net

Table of Contents
	I	Introduction
Jim Chester	1	The Smoking Entrance Expedition
Peter Sprouse	3	Silvertip 1996
Jim Chester	7	1999 Silvertip Expediton Journal
Hans Bodenhamer	13	1981 Exploration on Moon Ray Cave
Jason Ballensky	23	South Silvertip Plateau
Art Palmer	28	End of the Season
Joe Oliphant	31	Lost Creek Siphon
Kasey Corey	45	Continued Exploration of West Boulder Cave
Hans Bodenhamer	45	Musings on the Geology of Lost Creek Siphon
Jim Chester	55	Trick Falls Glacier National Park
Hans Bodenhamer	59	Vision Quest at Pi'tamakan
Jim Chester	61	Dreamin' Deep, A Tale of a Geezer and a Gouffre
Jay Kennedy	65	Ultralight Single Rope Techniques for Alpine Caving
Jeff Forbes	70	A Few Leads Left Behind, UNA Mountain
Bob Rutherford	72	Redemption
Rodney Horrocks, David Herron, David Shurtz, & Jim Olsen	75	Nielsons Cave, A Western Classic
David Herron	99	Preliminary Geology of Nielsons Cave
James Wilson	106	Colorado's Highest Caves
Tom Aley	109	Early Cave Exploration in the Marble Mountains, California
Bighorn Broeckel	111	Marble Mountains Cave Review
Jerry Davis, Feride Serefidin	114	The Geology of the Marble Mountains of Northern California
Marek Wierzbowski	121	Hoher Goll-Austria
Kevin Allred	125	Another Crack at Blowing in the Wind Cave, Alaska
Joe Oliphant	128	Breakthrough, Alpine Caving Wetsuit
Ron Zuber	129	An Alpine Karst Moment

ALPINE KARST is a publication of the Alpine Karst Foundation, a non profit corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana. The purpose of the organization is to explore and study for the enrichment of human knowledge and the advancement of science, alpine karst. The AK publication places an emphasis on the caves and karst in the alpine and mountainous regions of North America and the World.

Front Cover: No Escape from the maelstrom of Lost Creek Siphon. Mark Madson avoiding the deep pool at the base of Puberty Pit. Photo by Willie Hunt.

Back Cover: Dreamy days on the karst. The gift of a water color by Linda Heslop contributed to the past, present, and future of Alpine Karst. Original from a slide of the Silvertip Plateau by Maciej Tomaszek.