As it turns out, David may have remembered that tee shirt more accurately than I thought.
Here is a photo of the tee shirt we made for the 1985 Huautla expedition: <https://www.dropbox.com/s/bkqmz6ywjzhg1op/Huautla%20tee%20shirt%201985.JPG? dl=0>. It is indeed tan/brown, and features an emblem showing a stylized connection between Nita Nanta and Sistema Huautla. The text says "1985 Huautla Expedition Connection Trip". We were so certain that we'd make the connection that year that we made the shirt in advance. We did end up making a connection, but it was between La Grieta and San Agustin. Nanta held out until 1987. Of course, now that we're making major discoveries in La Grieta, that old connection is more significant than we thought. :-) Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net ------------------------------------------------------ On Nov 3, 2016 David Locklear wrote: Thank you. The t-shirt part of that story could have been 1987, as all the memories are just too fuzzy. My actual memory was that the shirt had something more like "Nita Na" or "Nita Ne," but I could not find anything on the internet about that, so I wrote "Nita Nanta" in my post. Maybe it was a t-shirt that said "Li Nita Connection" ?? It is all just a fuzzy memory. That year was only my second time in life to float on the Guadalupe River, and that was one of the fun parts about the memory of 1986 or 1987. I have never been in the Huautla area. I did go in a deep pit further north in Puebla once, near the coordinates below 18°38'08.8"N 97°14'43.2"W 18.635783,-97.245332 with 2 Australian cavers, Rolf Adams and his girlfriend Dr. Anne Gray in December of 1989, and I did poke around in some caves near Zongolica, Veracruz in December of 1985, with a guy named Steve Robertson and his wife Lori Robertson, and 2 Mexico city cavers, Jose Luis Soberanes and Jorge Ramirez. And there is a road-trip report about that in a 1986 Texas Caver. [ Sidenote: I do not know if any of you knew those people, but according to Lori's Facebook page, she got stuck on some job in Hawaii, so they were forced to move there. I have not spoken to them in 31 years except for a brief hello at Alejandro Villagomez's wake. ] I seem to recall a rumor that Steve's older brother got lost in the jungle for a week in Mexico, and I think there may be an old AMCS related story about that. Anyways, back to the t-shirt. It was a cool t-shirt, and my guess is that it was a tan color and might have had a map on it, with maybe just lines. David Locklear
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