Howdy Cavers,
As you hopefully know, the 2009 NSS Convention and International Congress of
Speleology will be held in Kerrville, Texas on July 19-26th (2009). Before,
after, and during the convention there will be all sorts of activities going
on including caving trips and week long expeditions. During the week of the
convention however, the caving trips will be narrowed down to day trips
throughout the week with Wednesday being the big day for longer more
involved trips. I am currently in charge of the day caving trips for the
week of the convention. Since there will likely be several trips to several
caves going on at the same time I will need help, help going caving. Its
tough, I know. I hope some of you can handle that!!
I am looking for volunteers to lead day caving trips during the convention.
The trips will range from short drives to somewhat nearby caves to long day
trips to caves further away. They will range in size based on what the cave
can handle with minimum impact. Transportation methods will be based on
vehicle accessibility, trip size, etc. I need some volunteers that can
start working with me soon to start visiting some of these caves, become
familiar with the caves, and get to know the land owners a bit so that they
can lead trips into these caves during the convention.
Several well known caves are already on my wish list for day trips which
have been visited by many of you and won't require any pre-convention caving
trips, while others may not have been visited since the 60's and need to be
tracked down. I am starting to venture out and check out some of these old
caves/leads to see if they are worth using for the ICS. I need volunteers
for both the well known cave trips as well as volunteers that can start
caving with me pretty soon as I check out old caves/leads so that they can
become familiar with the caves for the conventions.
I have already had a few volunteers and I MUCH appreciate the help. I will
need more though. Cavers will be coming in from around the globe and I
would like to offer as many choices for caving opportunities as possible. I
would ideally like to have caving trips going on each day, that makes for a
lot of volunteers. Please spread the word around at your meetings, put it
in your newsletters, etc. If you would like to volunteer, please let me
know and we can start working out the details.
Thank you,
Travis Scott
tra...@oztotl.com
979.229.0232 Cell
979.731.1721 Home
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