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.


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