Langtry Lead, Langtry Quarry, Langtry cave k On Oct 21, 2017, at 12:41 AM, Fritz Holt via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>> wrote:
Thanks, David. June and I enjoyed visiting with you at TCR. Fritz Holt Sent from my iPhone On Oct 19, 2017, at 7:35 PM, Charles Loving via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>> wrote: I went to Langtry Leads twice. And to a sink out there somewhere. Did some caving on the Alamo Village Ranch for Happy Shahan looking for guano to mine. All a long time ago. On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Fritz Holt via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>> wrote: David, Good information. What are the names of the other two caves? I have made the drop into the main cave in the Hwy. 90 cut at Langtry some years ago with Preston McMichael and other friends. Fritz Holt Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 19, 2017, at 10:53 AM, David via Texascavers > <texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>> wrote: > > I mentioned last month that I had discovered that the landowner of the 3 big > caves out at the big ranch north of the town of Langtry had passed away. > > I made a diligent effort to contact his large family and offer condolences. > > They are now aware of my intentions. > > I can only hope that someday one of them will contact me expressing interest > in assistance with visiting the caves or reach out on their own to another > caver. > > I have guided several trips into each of the 3 caves, but the last time was > at about 19 years ago. I am not in good enough health to do it any time soon. > > These caves are warmer and dustier and drier than caves in the Hill Country. > Emerald Sink probably has a huge bat population. > > Proper gear is just a caving quality headlamp ( $ 30 to $ 70 from Frys ), > jeans and t-shirt, plenty of water or Gatorade and some lightweight cotton > gloves and any kind of helmet. > > Thin kneepads for those who can not tolerate occasional crawling. > > Maybe something new will happen in 2018 in the Langtry Caves. > > But as of October 19, I do not know if they want cavers to contact them, or > who in their family wants to be the cave contact, or even if any of them > still own the ranch. > > I do not plan to ever reach out to them again. The ball is in their court. > > If my effort fails, then another caver should try, or attempt a different > approach method, but at least wait a few months. > > David Locklear > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com<http://texascavers.com/> > Texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:Texascavers@texascavers.com> | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com<http://texascavers.com/> Texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:Texascavers@texascavers.com> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers -- Charlie Loving _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com<http://texascavers.com/> Texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:Texascavers@texascavers.com> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:Texascavers@texascavers.com> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers ************************ Katherine Arens Phones: Office(512) 232-6363 ar...@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:ar...@austin.utexas.edu> Dept. Phone: (512) 471-4123 Dept. of Germanic Studies FAX (512) 471-4025 2505 University Ave, C3300 Bldg.Location: Burdine 336 University of Texas at Austin Office: Burdine 320 Austin, TX 78712-1802 -. .- _..-'( )`-.._ ./'. '||\\. (\_/) .//||` .`\. ./'.|'.'||||\\|.. )O O( ..|//||||`.`|.`\. ./'..|'.|| |||||\`````` '`" '` ''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\. ./'.||'.|||| ||||||||||||. . |||||||||||| ||||.`||.`\. /'|||'.|||||| ||||||||||||{ }|||||||||||| ||||||.`|||`\ '.|||'.||||||| ||||||||||||{ }|||||||||||| |||||||.`|||.` '.||| ||||||||| |/' ``\||`` ''||/'' `\| ||||||||| |||.` |/' \./' `\./ \!|\ /|!/ \./' `\./ `\| V V V }' `\ /' `{ V V V ` ` ` V ' ' '
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