David and others interested in Kerr County caves for the ICS.
There is no publication for the county as Mark mentioned. There are a few
caves that are being considered for the ICS. I am in charge of the day
caving trips during the convention and am working hard to find as many good
caves as I can close to Kerrville for trips that week. One major problem is
bats are keeping a lot of the caves close to Kerrville from being used, we
don't want to disturb them. If anyone has any ideas or leads that need to
be tidied up, please let me know so we can check them for the ICS..
I am looking for as much help leading caving trips, if anyone is intersted
in leading or helping lead caving during the ICS, please let me know..
There indeed is a cave north of Lost Maples, however TXDOT has put a
permanent gate on the cave and it has no door for access. Please do NOT
attempt to breech the gate, I believe someone is actively working on getting
access to the cave for cavers and research again. Plus, one time not too
long ago we were standing at the entrance watching to see if flood waters
would flow in when the nearby land owner pulled up to talk to us and see
what we were doing. He told us "you don't want to go into that cave
anyways" we said "why?" he responded "cause when you come out, you'll have
my shotgun pointing in your face".
Yes, there is some real problems getting into ranches, hence the rancher in
the above story, but we are working on that too.
Travis
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Locklear" <dlocklea...@gmail.com>
To: <texascavers@texascavers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:41 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] a Kerr County lead ??
I got this e-mail today from an caving friend who used to live near
Kerrville back in the 80's:
There is a small cave right along the side of the road just north of
Lost Maples
State Natural Area.
Since the entrance is essentially in a ditch in the
right-of-way, my friends and I never had any problem going into it - the
local landowner never complained. It had a strong airflow near the
back, which always intrigued me.
I don't know of any cave closer to Kerrville.
... Getting access to any potential caves there is a problem, as
ranchers are
cautious about letting people on their property.
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