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Photo Essay
December 2007
pumice you'll be lavan' it!
Claude Koch, custodian, looks out from the cave. Koch, who
is the vice-chair of the Willamette Valley Grotto, a local caving
club, led the two geology classes on the Oct. 26 caving field
hip-
Photo by Malia Chong
-aura Huck, senior, crawls through a tree cast as a warm up
r her quest into the cave. The tree cast was narrow and many
dents took the opportunity to learn firsthand about the lava
ws that caused them. Photo submitted by Geoff Bingham
,ed by Claude Koch, custodian, geology students descend
to the cave using a ladder. Temperatures in the caves were
chilling 42 degrees Fahrenheit.
Photo by Malia Chong
Hartmann, science teacher currently on paternity leave,
d Timothy Amritage, senior, wait at the edge of the stream
osion cave. Christopher Garfield, Laura Huck and Taylor
olasinski, seniors, explored the side canal.
Photo by Malia Chong
Plunging 200' below the surface, Geoff Bingham's geology
class traveled to Mt. St. Helen's Lake Cave for a hands-on
an Ghorbani-Elizeh, junior, maneuvers through one of the
any small passages of the cave. Most students wore protective
ets and kneepads, and all students used a flashlight.
Photo by Malia Chong
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