Underground Ranger: Adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Other Remarkable Places
For six exciting years Doug Thompson worked as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. In Underground Ranger he passes along the essence of what he learned on this unusual job and in his related adventures exploring the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert. He overcame his fear of tight spaces and heights, learned to climb rope, and went on to explore many of the deep vertical caves in the Guadalupe Mountains of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico—including Lechuguilla Cave, one of the most spectacular underground wonders of the world. He even became a member of the park's technical rescue team and made a fifty-story rappel into one of the deepest underground pits in the United States. In visceral detail, Thompson shares the physical and mythical stories of caves and shows what it's like to experience the extravagant beauty of nature's underground realm.

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Underground Ranger: Adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Other Remarkable Places
For six exciting years Doug Thompson worked as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. In Underground Ranger he passes along the essence of what he learned on this unusual job and in his related adventures exploring the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert. He overcame his fear of tight spaces and heights, learned to climb rope, and went on to explore many of the deep vertical caves in the Guadalupe Mountains of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico—including Lechuguilla Cave, one of the most spectacular underground wonders of the world. He even became a member of the park's technical rescue team and made a fifty-story rappel into one of the deepest underground pits in the United States. In visceral detail, Thompson shares the physical and mythical stories of caves and shows what it's like to experience the extravagant beauty of nature's underground realm.

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Underground Ranger: Adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Other Remarkable Places

Underground Ranger: Adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Other Remarkable Places

by Doug Thompson
Underground Ranger: Adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Other Remarkable Places

Underground Ranger: Adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Other Remarkable Places

by Doug Thompson

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For six exciting years Doug Thompson worked as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. In Underground Ranger he passes along the essence of what he learned on this unusual job and in his related adventures exploring the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert. He overcame his fear of tight spaces and heights, learned to climb rope, and went on to explore many of the deep vertical caves in the Guadalupe Mountains of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico—including Lechuguilla Cave, one of the most spectacular underground wonders of the world. He even became a member of the park's technical rescue team and made a fifty-story rappel into one of the deepest underground pits in the United States. In visceral detail, Thompson shares the physical and mythical stories of caves and shows what it's like to experience the extravagant beauty of nature's underground realm.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826357502
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 10/15/2016
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

After retiring from the National Park Service, Doug Thompson moved to the juniper-piñon hills of Capitan, New Mexico. Visit his Underground Ranger website at www.parkrangerdoug.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Author's Note xi

Part 1 Learning

Chapter 1 A Good Career 3

Chapter 2 A New Beginning 15

Chapter 3 Making Friends 25

Chapter 4 Entering the Underworld 33

Chapter 5 Into Tight Spaces 45

Chapter 6 Jim and the Giant 57

Chapter 7 On Rope! 67

Chapter 8 Ogle Cave 77

Part 2 Exploring

Chapter 9 Kokopelli 111

Chapter 10 Old Man Coyote 121

Chapter 11 Places of Creation 133

Chapter 12 The High Guads 145

Chapter 13 Turning to Live with Animals 157

Chapter 14 Mexican Free-Tails 171

Chapter 15 Climbing High 181

Chapter 19 Ellison's Cave 189

Chapter 17 The Joys of Friendship 197

Chapter 18 Sharing One Soul 205

Chapter 19 Lechuguilla Cave 213

Chapter 20 The Brightest of Wonders 227

Chapter 21 Time Passing 235

Chapter 22 Saying Good-Bye 245

Bibliography 253

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