Dick Mitchell ..................................... Chair
14111 Sun Blaze Loop, Unit A
Broomfield, CO   80023

Terry Mitchell ............................... Vice-Chair
4207 Brant Drive
Springdale, AR   72762

Bill Boehle ........................ Secretary/Treasurer
1284 Lower Ferry Road
Ewing, NJ   08618-1408

Miriam Cuddington ............................. At-Large
109 Beacon St.
Moulton, AL   35650-1801

Rory Tinston ................................... At-Large
23 Goehring Curve
Blauvelt, NY   10913

Tim White ....................................... Editor
2830 Olde Savannah Cove
Suwanee, GA   30024

Bruce Smith ......................... Education Coordinator
6313 Jan Lane Drive
Harrison, TN 37341-9419

Bill Cuddington ...................... Vertical Contest Chairman
109 Beacon St.
Moulton, AL   35650-1801

Terry Clark ...... Vertical Techniques Workshop Coordinator
7124 Cairo Dixie Road
Corydon, KY   42406-9735

Please send articles, art, exchange publications and other material for publication in the Nylon Highway to:

Tim White
2830 Olde Savannah Cove
Suwanee, GA   30024
e-mail: southeast@ncrc.info

Please send payment for ads, subscriptions, renewals, requests for back issues, address changes and all correspondence that doesn’t have to do with anything you’ll ever want published to:

Bill Boehle
(609) 771-6969
1284 Lower Ferry Road
Ewing, NJ   08618-1408
e-mail: wfboehle2@comcast.net

In short, if you’d like to submit something for possible publication, send it to the Editor. Otherwise, send it to the Secretary/Treasurer.

INFORMATION AND DISCLAIMER

The Nylon Highway is published by the Vertical Section of the National Speleological Society on a regular basis pending sufficient material. Material is posted on the Vertical Section’s web site soon after being received by the Editor. A volume of all material is printed and distributed to those not having access to the electronic version on an annual basis.

It is the intent of this publication to provide a vehicle for papers on vertical work. All submitted articles containing unsafe practices will be returned to the author. Opinions expressed herein are credited to the author and do not necessarily agree with those of the Editor, the Vertical Section, its members or its Executive Committee. The reader should understand that some material presented in the Nylon Highway may be of an experimental nature and is presented herein for peer review. The reader should exercise good judgment and use common sense when attempting new vertical techniques or using new equipment.

WARNING:   The reader must acknowledge that caving, climbing, mountaineering, rappelling, rescue work and other rope activities expressed in the Nylon Highway are inherently dangerous activities and serious injury or death could result from use and/or misuse of techniques and equipment described in this publication.

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