Bill, That is an exciting list of expedition accomplishments. Looking forward to your presentations at Ely in July. Preston Forsythe Browder, KY
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Bill Steele via Texascavers<texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: PESH 2016 Expedition accomplishments • PESH brochures in Spanish worked well in many ways (thanks to Whole Earth Provision Company!) • La Grieta Mexiguilla area fully explored, mapped, and photgraphed • La Grieta Camp 3 used and cave explored north 1.5 km to northernmost point of Sistema Huautla • Merican Tubes connected to Refresher in La Grieta • Hobbit Hole in La Grieta pushed to an end 150m in depth • Six meters of depth added to Sistema Huautla to bring it to 1560m (unofficial) • 3.5 km in length added to Sistema Huautla to make the length 75.5 km (47 miles) • Two paleontological caves surveyed and the first complete skull of a Pleistocene sloth (Megalonyx Jeffersonii) in Mexico recovered by Ivan Alarcon with INAH, a Mexican government agency • Four UNAM graduate biology students spent a week with on the expedition and made many new insect collections in the caves. • Cueva Basura mapped • Big Wind cave explored and mapped. Three leads remain. If connected in 2017 will add around 24 meters in depth to Sistema Huautla • Fourteen presentations given to area school classes about PESH's work, to as many as 800 students • Precision GPS waypoints recorded for Sistema Huautla entrances • A digital picture frame with 243 photos installed in San Agustin Zaragoza agencia office • 25 school children taken caving • 20 area school teachers taken caving • Huautla resident and English teacher Alma Rodriguez was very important to PESH as chief diplomat and school presentation translator • Alma Rodriguez to form "Friends of Speleologists" group in Huautla • Nita Tienzo exploration progressed and looking very good. Has 1,000m+ of depth potential • Two pits in Plan Carlota valley explored and mapped • Had a Mazateco curandero ceremony performed to get things right with the cave spirits • Took 23 strike and dip measurements between San Andreas and Plan Carlota to further map the cave strata • Another expedition with excellent photography • Austin caver (formerly from Monterrey, N.L., Mexico) Fernando Hernandez named 2016 expedition "Rookie of the Year" _______________________________________________ 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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