On Jan 27, 2009, at 7:58 AM, <speleoste...@tx.rr.com> wrote:
Members of five Texas grottos participated in the tank haul:
Barry Adelman UTG
Braddon Bargo
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Diana Tomchick DFW
Alex Wendeborn ASS
Supporting on the surface were:
Jerry Atkinson
Don Broussard
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Diana Tomchick
Drew Wendeborn
Cephas Wozencraft
Wow, not only did Ninja James Brown pass 21 people on the way out of
Honey Creek, I magically became a Ninja caver on this trip by both
participating in the tank haul and helping lower and haul people out
of the cave! Maybe those late-night cloning experiments in the lab
have finally paid off, and I really did clone myself...no, this is one
tank haul trip I missed, due to lower back problems. But I plan to be
on the next one, as they are may favorite trips into Honey Creek.
Diana
P.S. I really feel as though I am responsible for what happened with
Puppy. I should have known enough to have assigned one surface support
person to check people off the list as they came out of the cave. The
biggest problem was that as they were being hauled up the shaft, they
kept yelling about how cold they were, so we worked as hard and as
fast as we could to haul them out, unclip their gear and shove the
cable back down the shaft. Once people unclipped themselves they ran
(and I literally mean, RAN) to the campfire, and many abandoned their
packs where we unclipped them from the cable (this prompted one person
to ask the next morning, "Did you split up their abandoned gear?").
Several times I had to go over to the fire and add more wood--they
were so oblivious they didn't even notice that the fire was starting
to burn down. In all the hustle to get everyone out of the cave and
get them warmed up as quickly as possible, we lost count of the people
as they came up the shaft.
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Diana R. Tomchick
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214B
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
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