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To: Cavers Texas <texascavers@texascavers.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Green place in Mexico (Skinner Lee via Texascavers)
Gaston Santos father was the Gov. of SLP and owned the ranch acros
Gaston Santos father was the Gov. of SLP and owned the ranch across the
street from the hotel in Tamuin. We had his permission to cave but had to
extra careful because he raised Toros for the corrida. He also had student
protestors shot in SLP and was fired.
Gaston Jr was a bull fighter and a pal
Now we are getting somewhere!
Aside from the Zetas, etc, why is the place so unpopulated? Bad dirt?
Wretched vegetation? Thorn scrub never stopped a Mexican or a cow, and neither
does cloud forest.
Are these mountains older than the Sierra Madre Oriental? Different
orogeny? Subsequent
There is, or was remnant cloud forest there.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Lee H. Skinner via Texascavers <
texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
> On 1/15/2017 10:00 AM, Bill Mixon via Texascavers wrote:
>
> That valley El Picharo is certainly a curious feature. I wonder if it is an
> old
On 1/15/2017 10:00 AM, Bill Mixon via Texascavers wrote:
That valley El Picharo is certainly a curious feature. I wonder if it is an old
caldera. Whole region looks virtually uninhabited, which might (or might not)
make it a place for people up to no good to hang out. Surroundings seems to
