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Rat’s Nest CaveRat’s Nest Cave
5 November 2005
Photographs by Robert Holmberg
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View of Grotto Mountain from road
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Part way up trail, looking east
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Creek Bed with Snow
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Cave Entrance
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Group recently emerged from cave
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Pack Rat Nests, made with leaves and human litter
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Pack Rat in Nest
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Bones of vertebrates that died in the cave,
chewed on by Pack Rats
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Moth overwintering in cave
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Overwintering harvestmen, Nelima paessleri
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Individual Nelima paessleri
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Curtain flowstone
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Soda straws and stalactites
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Equipment for analyzing dripping water
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Route into the last part of the cave
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Second last pool with flowstone
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Rimstone dams
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Gnat found on pool
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Gnat on flowstone
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Final pool with more water analysis equipment
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Going back up
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Charles Yonge of Canmore Caverns helps getting us out of the last passage