Wow! That's almost the same number of people we had at the
Honey Creek 20-year anniversary in 2000! (84 was the official count
then, but they didn't all go caving. See Texas Caver 45(5) p.
125-126, Sept./Oct. 2000.) Good show!
Mark Minton
At 04:21 PM 2/1/2011, Kurt L. Menking wrote:
My hats off to Ellie for getting the word out and motivating cavers
from all over the state to come out to Honeycreek cave this
weekend. Don Brusard and Kitty, and others helped run the tractor
to get everyone in and out safely. It was largely a cat hearding
exercise Saturday morning, but once everyone was in the cave
everything seemed to go smoothly.
We had 83 people go caving in Honeycreek Saturday. 83 people signed
the log sheet, and 82 people signed out. The one who didn't sign
out was hunted down by cell phone and tongue lashed
appropriately. We also had at least 3-6 surface people out during
the day, so we had very close to 90 folks on the property.
I don't know the exact numbers but about 60 folks did through
trips. Half went in at the spring, and half went in at the
shaft. The groups were staggered and while there were a few bottle
necks here and there they were not a big deal. One group did the
through trip in 2 hours and 45 minutes. And one of those guys had
only one flipper (he was the one setting the blistering pace).
Another large group did the trip up the QA to the pretty walking section.
And Ed, Mallory, Ellie, and others did the push to the end of the
Mile Crawl passage.
All in all a great weekend. I'm not sure we had this many people in
the cave at TCR.
I know lots of photos were taken, so some of you need to send Mark
your pics with a trip report. It was an epic weekend.
Kurt
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