Many KY cavers still love a Sara Corrie story. See you at Ely. Preston Forsythe, Browder, KY
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers<texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: From Squire Lewis's journal of 1964 NSS convention: > June 15, 1964, Monday. New Braunfels, Texas, Cypress Creek campground. Heavy > rain in a.m., glad for tent. At Imperial Motel 9 a.m., registered, found out > we should have been at Devil's Sinkhole in West Texas. Left, arrived 12:30 > p.m., ran into Corrie mob in middle of wilderness, hooked up with same. Sara, > George, and Bruce Corrie, Ted Will, Forry, Andrea, Tom Smith. Doubled back > and ate in Rocksprings cafe, Lacey's—incredible scene, twenty-two of us > served family style, all we could eat, huge platters of chicken-fried steaks, > pork chops, fried chicken, etc. etc. Cost $2 each. Loafed on village square, > no hurry as there was a long line at the pit. San Angelo Times runs feature > article on the cavers, referring to us as resembling a "scene from Tobacco > Road." Lowered into the pit about 6 p.m., out at 7:30 in time for the bat > flight. The UT Grotto has lowered 203 cavers into the pit without a major > incident using a climbing rope rigged through a pulley to a car that they > drive back and forth. Our group got special permission to camp at sinkhole > from Mr. Witworth. Four rappelled in at midnight: Sara Corrie, Bill Kohler, > Bill Jasper, and Roger Craig. > Try to get permission to rappel in now. -- Mixon ---------------------------------------- Q: Why is the universe here? A: Where else could it be? ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: a...@mexicancaves.org or sa...@mexicancaves.org _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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