Re: [Texascavers] Just reminiscing - part 1 of 3

[Michael Harris via Texascavers]

It must have been a very fuzzy memory because 1989 was 28 years ago.

Mike Harris

On Dec 24, 2017 5:26 PM, "Mark Minton via Texascavers" <
texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:

> Rolf Adams was a fantastic caver and all around really nice guy. I had the
> pleasure of caving with him several times, including at Cueva Cheve in
> 1989. There is a photo of Rolf, Noel Sloan and me on the cover of the NSS
> history book "Caving in America". We were supposed to represent "modern"
> cavers, as compared to the other photo on the cover showing cavers from
> 1940. Ironically, at that time none of the three of us were NSS members.
> Rolf was Australian and not a member; I had not yet joined, and Noel's
> membership had lapsed. (The book is no longer available from the NSS, but
> it is on eBay:  of-the-National-Spelelogical-Society-1991-/151917519053>.)
>
>
> Mark Minton
>
> mmin...@caver.net
>
> On Sun, 24 Dec, 2017 at 5:11 PM, David via Texascavers <
> texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
>
> To: CaveTex
> Cc: dlocklea...@gmail.com
> A personal story from David Locklear from December of 1989.
> ( a very fuzzy memory from 18 years ago)
>
> I have ever told this whole story - at least not in detail - just in parts.
>
> Background:   Australian caver Rolf Adams ( who would later drown in
> Florida scuba training for a caving expedition ) was hanging out in Austin
> semi-permanently caving full-time..  He had finished his math studies at a
> university in Australia and had climbed El Capitan and sone lots of
> caving.He was the most technical caver that I had ever met, and I
> assumed he could lead or climb as good as Alejandro Villagomez.   He and I
> had caved previously once over Thanksgiving in The El Cielo, mostly
> ridgewalking camping, swimming and taking in the Huastecan culture.
>
> [ Sidenote:   I actually sincerely believed his name was Wallaby Adams
> until reading his obituary in the NSS News two years later. ]
>
> In November of 89, I was laid-off from a civil engineering company where I
> worked drafting on mylar with ink pens. and Leroy set roads ( new suburban
> boulevards ).   I had never been laid off.   In those days, unlike today, I
> was a total moron, and I had no earthly idea what it meant to be laid off.
>  In my case, I had an extreme stroke of luck ( for once ) in that when I
> arrived at The Texas Unemployment Office, my bosse's boss was in line right
> next to me.
>
> So I left Houston and went to the UT Grotto meeting.   ( In those days,
> still being an A.S.S. caver, I referred to it as the "t.u. Grotto." )
>
> Rolf was there with his girlfriend from Australia.  He introduced her as
> Dr. Anne Gray.She was a cute blonde with long frizzy hair about 25
> years old.   [I think this might be her on Facebook
>
> https://www.facebook.com/anne.gray.144 ]
>
> Rolf announced he was heading on a ridgewalking adventure near Tehuacan,
> Puebla in search of the highest cave entrance in the western hemisphere.
>
> I think our remote spot is now a tourist site:
>
> San Bernardino Lagunas
> Vicente Guerrero, Puebla, Mexico
>
> https://goo.gl/maps/Zer3ueTFVt32
>
> Some Austin cavers found a tiny yellow beat-up Datsun pickup with
> camper-shell on the back.
>
> Rolf was content to have me tag along, but unknown to me, his girlfriend
> had possibly been wanting a simple quite trip with just the two of them.
>  She did not know me at all, like Rolf did.  And she and I never hit it
> off.   In hindsight, I should have bailed on them, at some point before
> reaching Puebla.
> But they had no business travelling alone like that where they were going.
>
> Maybe to be continued
>
> Feel free to correct me, or add to Part One, if you knew Rolf or Anne.
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Texascavers] Just reminiscing - part 1 of 3

[Mark Minton via Texascavers]

Rolf Adams was a fantastic caver and all around really nice guy. I had the 
pleasure of caving with him several times, including at Cueva Cheve in 1989. 
There is a photo of Rolf, Noel Sloan and me on the cover of the NSS history 
book "Caving in America". We were supposed to represent "modern" cavers, as 
compared to the other photo on the cover showing cavers from 1940. Ironically, 
at that time none of the three of us were NSS members. Rolf was Australian and 
not a member; I had not yet joined, and Noel's membership had lapsed. (The book 
is no longer available from the NSS, but it is on eBay: 
.)



Mark Minton
mmin...@caver.net


On Sun, 24 Dec, 2017 at 5:11 PM, David via Texascavers 
 wrote:
 

To: CaveTex
Cc: dlocklea...@gmail.com
A personal story from David Locklear from December of 1989.
( a very fuzzy memory from 18 years ago)



I have ever told this whole story - at least not in detail - just in parts.


Background:   Australian caver Rolf Adams ( who would later drown in Florida 
scuba training for a caving expedition ) was hanging out in Austin 
semi-permanently caving full-time..  He had finished his math studies at a 
university in Australia and had climbed El Capitan and sone lots of caving.    
He was the most technical caver that I had ever met, and I assumed he could 
lead or climb as good as Alejandro Villagomez.   He and I had caved previously 
once over Thanksgiving in The El Cielo, mostly ridgewalking camping, swimming 
and taking in the Huastecan culture.   


[ Sidenote:   I actually sincerely believed his name was Wallaby Adams until 
reading his obituary in the NSS News two years later. ]


In November of 89, I was laid-off from a civil engineering company where I 
worked drafting on mylar with ink pens. and Leroy set roads ( new suburban 
boulevards ).   I had never been laid off.   In those days, unlike today, I was 
a total moron, and I had no earthly idea what it meant to be laid off.   In my 
case, I had an extreme stroke of luck ( for once ) in that when I arrived at 
The Texas Unemployment Office, my bosse's boss was in line right next to me.


So I left Houston and went to the UT Grotto meeting.   ( In those days, still 
being an A.S.S. caver, I referred to it as the "t.u. Grotto." )


Rolf was there with his girlfriend from Australia.  He introduced her as Dr. 
Anne Gray.    She was a cute blonde with long frizzy hair about 25 years old.   
[I think this might be her on Facebook 


https://www.facebook.com/anne.gray.144 ]


Rolf announced he was heading on a ridgewalking adventure near Tehuacan, Puebla 
in search of the highest cave entrance in the western hemisphere.


I think our remote spot is now a tourist site:



San Bernardino Lagunas
Vicente Guerrero, Puebla, Mexico


https://goo.gl/maps/Zer3ueTFVt32


Some Austin cavers found a tiny yellow beat-up Datsun pickup with camper-shell 
on the back.


Rolf was content to have me tag along, but unknown to me, his girlfriend had 
possibly been wanting a simple quite trip with just the two of them.   She did 
not know me at all, like Rolf did.  And she and I never hit it off.   In 
hindsight, I should have bailed on them, at some point before reaching Puebla.
But they had no business travelling alone like that where they were going.


Maybe to be continued


Feel free to correct me, or add to Part One, if you knew Rolf or Anne.









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[Texascavers] Just reminiscing - part 1 of 3

[David via Texascavers]

A personal story from David Locklear from December of 1989.
( a very fuzzy memory from 18 years ago)


I have ever told this whole story - at least not in detail - just in parts.

Background:   Australian caver Rolf Adams ( who would later drown in
Florida scuba training for a caving expedition ) was hanging out in Austin
semi-permanently caving full-time.  He had finished his math studies at a
university in Australia and had climbed El Capitan and sone lots of
caving.He was the most technical caver that I had ever met, and I
assumed he could lead or climb as good as Alejandro Villagomez.   He and I
had caved previously once over Thanksgiving in The El Cielo, mostly
ridgewalking camping, swimming and taking in the Huastecan culture.

[ Sidenote:   I actually sincerely believed his name was Wallaby Adams
until reading his obituary in the NSS News two years later. ]

In November of 89, I was laid-off from a civil engineering company where I
worked drafting on mylar with ink pens. and Leroy set roads ( new suburban
boulevards ).   I had never been laid off.   In those days, unlike today, I
was a total moron, and I had no earthly idea what it meant to be laid off.
 In my case, I had an extreme stroke of luck ( for once ) in that when I
arrived at The Texas Unemployment Office, my bosse's boss was in line right
next to me.

So I left Houston and went to the UT Grotto meeting.   ( In those days,
still being an A.S.S. caver, I referred to it as the "t.u. Grotto." )

Rolf was there with his girlfriend from Australia.  He introduced her as
Dr. Anne Gray.She was a cute blonde with long frizzy hair about 25
years old.   [I think this might be her on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/anne.gray.144 ]

Rolf announced he was heading on a ridgewalking adventure near Tehuacan,
Puebla in search of the highest cave entrance in the western hemisphere.

I think our remote spot is now a tourist site:

San Bernardino Lagunas
Vicente Guerrero, Puebla, Mexico


https://goo.gl/maps/Zer3ueTFVt32

Some Austin cavers found a tiny yellow beat-up Datsun pickup with
camper-shell on the back.

Rolf was content to have me tag along, but unknown to me, his girlfriend
had possibly been wanting a simple quite trip with just the two of them.
 She did not know me at all, like Rolf did.  And she and I never hit it
off.   In hindsight, I should have bailed on them, at some point before
reaching Puebla.
But they had no business travelling alone like that where they were going.

Maybe to be continued

Feel free to correct me, or add to Part One, if you knew Rolf or Anne.
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