I was there around 1976. Stairs.
Don Arburn
On Jul 16, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Butch Fralia <bfra...@maverickgrotto.org>
wrote:
My first CWAN tour was in April, 1985 with my daughter. The
stairway was
there then.
I remember hearing about the cave from Mrs. Bridges at Cascade
Caverns. We
drove out into the country, and kept seeing signs to the cave on the
then
dirt road. The first sign said something like "cave 1/2 mile". The
next
sign said something like "cave 3 miles". I think if you added up
the miles
on all the signs, the cave was about 90 miles or something like
that. We
arrived at an old farm that appeared to have a stone outhouse along
side.
Wondering if we were at the wrong place, we finally spotted a sign
that said
"in cave, back at 2:00 PM" so we waited. Turned out that Eugene was
in the
house having a little nap. Assuming he heard us, he finally came
out and
said "wanna see my cave?"
That followed down the 125 or so steps to one of the most
fascinating tours
ever with only Eugene, my daughter Jennifer and myself. Eugene put
as much
into it as if there were 50 people on the tour including his rock
music.
I returned may times just to take the tour with Eugene.
Butch Fralia
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From: c...@boernenet.com [mailto:c...@boernenet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:46 PM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] CWAN ladder?
Does anyone in the Texas caving world recall a time when Cave
Without a
Name was accessed by a ladder? I,ve been having a very confusing
conversation with a woman who remembers visiting here in 1995 and
going
down a ladder to see the cave. I have video tapes of Eugene giving the
tour in 1993 and the stairway looks exactly the same as it does now.
I also have a brochure from the 40's that shows the stairway looking
just
like it does now. Is there a possibility that someone was doing
tours of
Fairy cave before that area was sub devided. Does any one have
pictures of
Fairy cave or CWAN with a ladder access.
Mike Burrell
Cave Without a Name
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