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Mt St Helens: Dave Clark and Rescue Leader Iain Morris rig the rope system to lower Eddy into the Godzilla Hole (left). Hazmat specialist Dave Clark and Iain Morris show how to use breathing apparatus. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56df5e5755598670c1810c6e/t/56e4c0a3b654f908342f258f/1457832103900/ make our mission possible. Anemometer in Pure Imagination Cave on Sandy Glacier, Mt Hood (left); Rainier Lead Surveyor Dave Riggs entering data in PDA for upload into mapping program https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56df5e5755598670c1810c6e/t/56e4c1b43c44d8234e177b26/1457832375390/ make our mission possible. Hilleberg tents at base camp on Mt Rainier withstood 80 mph winds at 14,000-ft elevation. 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Lead cave surveyor David Riggs uploads survey data to a laptop and generates maps (right) while onsite during the Rainier expedition. 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Each arrow marks the annual retreat of cave. The orange arrow marks the cave entrance at the end of 2012, and the red arrow is 2015. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56df5e5755598670c1810c6e/t/56e490d527d4bdfdac8017cf/1457819862666/19101069900_b92434320c_o.jpg Mt Hood Sandy Glacier Caves http://glaciercaveexplorers.org/st-helens-crater-glacier-caves daily 0.75 2016-03-13 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56df5e5755598670c1810c6e/t/56e4bd3bd51cd48392da9dbd/1457831242276/ St Helens Crater Glacier Caves Craig McClure, logistics expert and owner of Crackerjack First Response Specialists, helps guide the phone line into Godzilla Hole on Mt St Helens. The team uses military 'cricket' phones (their ring sounds like a cricket) for surface to in-cave communications. 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