Langtry Lead Cave ( LLC ), Mr. Mintion mentioned about the needles in the back of LLC.
This is one of my favorite caves. It was also my first real caving experience. In 1984, I believe the UT grotto had a trip there, but not sure what the purpose was. On an earlier trip, they had removed a ton of rusted metal debris from the entrance area, and I think some dead sheep or goats or both. I was lucky that an A.S.S. caver was invited on the trip and he invited me. ( John Ragsdale or Freddie Platt ? ) On that trip I met Ed Sevcik, who may have been on his first real caving trip. And also, Bill Mixon, Bill Elliot, Dr. James Reddell and crew, and maybe a few other UT cavers that my fuzzy memory doesn't remember. On that trip, I think I made it to the Hall of Unicorns. ( Probably that was the 2nd trip.) Anyways, after that the A.S.S. and I made maybe 10 trips to the ranch there during from 1985 to 1987. But we didn't always visit LLC. ( There were 2 other nice caves that we visited. ) We were on great terms with the landowner then. On only one of those trips, I was down at the bottom of the pits that Mr. Minton referred to. I only had the old map, and I didn't see any good leads, but have always felt there had to be more cave. I never new about the so-called new section until today. I presume it is a tight crawl, because I thought we poked around in that cave pretty good. There is quite a bit of flagstone rocks and gravel and dirt that could be hauled out of the cave. But that would not make the cave any deeper, right? I hope that cavers own these 3 caves someday. I still haven't been deep in Langtry Quarry Cave ( LQC ), yet. I also remember that sometime in the early 90's there was an incident were some needles were broken. I recall rumors that I had something to do with this. But I think they were referring to some crystals that were in the big room. I wasn't anywhere near West Texas when that incident took place. We didn't have e-mail and internet back then, so I don't know what became of the incident. I visited the ranch during the 1994 NSS Convention, but don't think we entered LLC. I think I 1995, I took 2 Houston cavers only to the big room of LLC. One of those cavers was Susan Herpin. The other was a new GHG member that never returned to a meeting. Around 1998, I took 3 Houston cavers to see the Hall of Unicorns. One of those cavers was a Brit and the other was a girl from Spain. We had a very pleasant trip, and camped on the creek at Pandale. The other caver was Chris Hall. I don't think I have been back to the ranch since, but all of my trips to Langtry have become just one giant fuzzy memory all blended together. David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
