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Rat’s Nest Cave

Rat’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.

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Rat’s Nest Cave

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  1. Rat’s Nest Cave 5 November 2005 Photographs by Robert Holmberg

  2. View of Grotto Mountain from road

  3. Part way up trail, looking east

  4. Creek Bed with Snow

  5. Cave Entrance

  6. Group recently emerged from cave

  7. Pack Rat Nests, made with leaves and human litter

  8. Pack Rat in Nest

  9. Bones of vertebrates that died in the cave, chewed on by Pack Rats

  10. Moth overwintering in cave

  11. Overwintering harvestmen, Nelima paessleri

  12. Individual Nelima paessleri

  13. Curtain flowstone

  14. Soda straws and stalactites

  15. Equipment for analyzing dripping water

  16. Route into the last part of the cave

  17. Second last pool with flowstone

  18. Rimstone dams

  19. Gnat found on pool

  20. Gnat on flowstone

  21. Final pool with more water analysis equipment

  22. Going back up

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

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