Rat’s Nest CaveRat’s Nest Cave

5 November 2005

Photographs by Robert Holmberg

View of Grotto Mountain from road

Part way up trail, looking east

Creek Bed with Snow

Cave Entrance

Group recently emerged from cave

Pack Rat Nests, made with leaves and human litter

Pack Rat in Nest

Bones of vertebrates that died in the cave,

chewed on by Pack Rats

Moth overwintering in cave

Overwintering harvestmen, Nelima paessleri

Individual Nelima paessleri

Curtain flowstone

Soda straws and stalactites

Equipment for analyzing dripping water

Route into the last part of the cave

Second last pool with flowstone

Rimstone dams

Gnat found on pool

Gnat on flowstone

Final pool with more water analysis equipment

Going back up

Charles Yonge of Canmore Caverns helps getting us out of the last passage