[Texascavers] TSA - CBSP October Project Weekend

[Will Quast via Texascavers]

Remember that this weekend is the 1st TSA-CBSP Project Weekend of the
2016-2017 season.
Highs in the low 80s and 0% chance of rain, should be really nice.  Home
base will be at Caver Camp this weekend.  Kris and I will arrive at about
9:30p on Friday evening.
This would be a good weekend to come out and do the groundwork and lay
claim to a project cave for this season.  We are expecting a large group of
new cavers, so any help from experienced cavers to lead groups would be
greatly appreciated.

Please completely read and understand the information at
http://www.cavetexas.org/projects/cbsp.html.
The 2016-2017 dates are also listed there so you can update your calendars.

Reservation is not necessary except for groups of 4 or more, but if you
email me you are thinking about coming I will keep an eye out for you.

Here is a photo of Tyler from last June coming out of Top Hat Cave, his
fist survey as sketcher.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35637124/DSC02095.JPG

Will Quast
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[Texascavers] Reminiscing

[David via Texascavers]

a personal story by David Locklear,   dlocklea...@gmail.com

Bare with me here please.   It is a beautiful day, and I am stuck in
horrendous traffic driving with the Sun in my face, with my mind wandering
to a more pleasant memory.

A quarter of a century ago, I was having preliminary discussions with my
caving colleagues in Houston about planning a real grotto caving trip -
something that had rarely been successfully pulled off.

I suggested a trip to Las Grutas del Precipicio and convinced them that we
could do it.

In those days, nearly every caver in Houston did not have a computer in the
house nor easy access to one ( except maybe at work ).   Email / Internet
had not yet reached Houston caving.Communication was done via landline
phones ( we just called them "phones." )   None of had answering machines
nor used beepers ( pagers ).

I am writing this from a very fuzzy memory, but there is a trip report in
SpeleoSpace.

I think the trip occurred over Thanksgiving 1991 ( maybe 1990 ).

Charles Fromen offered to drive us to Bustamante Canyon in his old 1977 ( ?
) supercab Dodge Powerwagon.   His young son, Carl Phillip Fromen, was with
us.   He about 12 years old.

Also Kenny and Carol McGee were there ( probably newlyweds ?? ).

I think I was semi-homeless at the time, and caver Bill Rupley had offered
me an inexpensive room in his fancy condo.   I was most likely working as a
contract draftsman using Microstation CAD for a temp agency.   I had not
yet made many modifications to the SpeleoStationwagon.

In those days, the only bridge across the Rio Grande ( to Bustamante ) was
in Laredo and there was no gas near Bustamante.

I think our trip was uneventful.

Carl Phillip Fromen used an Inchworm system for the ascent of the 2 pits.
( I still have his Inchworm rig that his dad built )   We probably used PMI
rope, but maybe Bluewater ?   Charles probably jumared out on a Texas
system, and Kenny and Carol probably used Ropewalkers without any
pulleys.   I most likely had a system I made up combining a Mitchell System
with a Gibbs at the foot instead of a lower Jumar.We did not know
anybody that liked the Frog, and most cavers I knew ridiculed it.   Charles
was in excellent physical shape and his son showed a promising future as an
award winning rope-climber.

We probably just took a quick dip in the creek after the visit to the cave,
as the canyon was still destroyed by Hurricane Gilbert ( from 1988.)

We also might have swam at the spring in Lampazos ( a place that was a
whole lot better back then ).

I can't remember if we slept in the cave.   I can't remember if we ate at
the Hotel Ancira, but we most likely did.

I just know we did not have aerial-video making drones, or cell phones or
LED headlamps or digital cameras or Google Earth, and the truck most likely
had a carburetor.And we survived !!

I think we did spend an hour looking for caves on the North ( west ) ridge
of the canyon, before heading home.

If you see the participants at TCR, try to see if they remember the trip.

I attempted this trip 6 times, and only twice did I make it to the big
formations at the back room.   All the memories are blended and fuzzy with
forgotten names.

David Locklear
NSS # 27639
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Re: [Texascavers] Help unloading TCR firewood

[John Schneider via Texascavers]

Thanks all.
See you there Sunday afternoon around 2-2:30

John Schneider

On Oct 3, 2016, at 7:10 PM, Don Arburn via Texascavers 
 wrote:

Niki, Gary, Amy, Tom(?), and me. 


--Don

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[Texascavers] October LaChance Sinkhole Dig, New Braunfels, Texas - Saturday, October 22

[Geary Schindel via Texascavers]

Folks,

I'm organizing another LaChance Sinkhole dig on Saturday, October 22, 2016. The 
sinkhole is located a few miles west of New Braunfels. There are actually four 
sinkholes located behind there house that need work. These are quality digs 
with two of the sinkholes having real caves associated. They take a large 
amount of water which has backed up and created flooding issues in the LaChance 
household. The dig will start at 9 am and if the weather is good, we may be 
able to jump in the Guadalupe River again after the dig. We'll end sometime 
after 2-3 pm.

Please let me know if you're able to attend and I'll send you directions.

Thanks

Geary Schindel



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