Re: [Texascavers] Fw: Precipicio

2019-03-01 Thread Nico Escamilla
The last clean up trip happened in 2006, 13 years ago during presidents day weekend. If theres enough interest maybe the project may be resurrected.. I know that was the argument I used to get off trail a few years ago when a certain someone kept everyone from going outside the tour boundaries.

Re: [Texascavers] Fw: Precipicio

2019-03-01 Thread Charles Loving
Correct On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:10 PM PRESTON FORSYTHE wrote: > > > Precipicio > > I will jump in on this recap of a favorite old cave. > > Last time I was in Bustamente Canyon 6-8 years ago on Runi, Ron's and > Strickland's yearly clean up trips in Palmito I ask about the status of > Precipici

[Texascavers] Fw: Precipicio

2019-03-01 Thread PRESTON FORSYTHE
Precipicio I will jump in on this recap of a favorite old cave.  Last time I was in Bustamente Canyon 6-8 years ago on Runi, Ron's and Strickland's yearly clean up trips in Palmito I ask about the status of Precipicio and it was closed, owned or run by the same organization that operates

[Texascavers] A 450 foot (137m) weekend pit in northern Mexico

2019-03-01 Thread Bill Steele
A really fine pit I did one time in the late 70s in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, not far west of Bustamante, is Illusive Pit. I don’t know if anyone has done it in over 40 years. http://www.mexicancaves.org/maps/3319.pdf Bill Steele speleoste...@aol.com___

Re: [Texascavers] La Cueva del Precipicio, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a weekend trip from Texas

2019-03-01 Thread Nancy Weaver
ok there is a story I want to hear N > > And there was the time Terry Raines set fire top the mountain. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.c

Re: [Texascavers] La Cueva del Precipicio, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a weekend trip from Texas

2019-03-01 Thread Charles Loving
I recall the traverse, across a field of very loose rubble. It was scary enough and I don't think anyone took pictures. Climbing up to Cabeza was also quite a trip. Going on that long hike without any of the proper gear was really stupid, but that was the era of being stupid and learning how to no

Re: [Texascavers] La Cueva del Precipicio, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a weekend trip from Texas

2019-03-01 Thread Fofo
I was there a few times about 10 years ago and we didn't ask for permission either. Really fun cave! - Fofo On 01/03/19 11:09, Ana Diaz wrote: As many times that we went there in the 90s I do not recall having to ask for permission. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2019, at 12:01 PM, mmin.

Re: [Texascavers] La Cueva del Precipicio, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a weekend trip from Texas

2019-03-01 Thread Nancy Weaver
while the pull down was indeed a fun experience, the long hike thru scrub to get all the way down was not nearly as much fun as screeing down the massive angle of repose arroyo. Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] La Cueva del Precipicio, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a weekend trip from Texas

2019-03-01 Thread Ana Diaz
As many times that we went there in the 90s I do not recall having to ask for permission. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2019, at 12:01 PM, mmin...@caver.net wrote: > > Is permission needed? I don't recall ever getting permission in the past, > when I was on many of those trips with Bill Ste

[Texascavers] Precipicio

2019-03-01 Thread David
Sometime around 1995, myself and Houston caver Susan Herpin and her young son, David ( about 11 years old ), did a tourist trip in the cave, in the upper-level passages up to the first drop. We also found small cave while hiking up to the cave, that had about 100 feet of walking size passage.

Re: [Texascavers] La Cueva del Precipicio, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a weekend trip from Texas

2019-03-01 Thread mminton
Is permission needed? I don't recall ever getting permission in the past, when I was on many of those trips with Bill Steele. Since a lot of the Canyon is now a park, is visiting the cave included as part of the park experience? If the cave is not part of the park, who owns the land? Hopefully

Re: [Texascavers] La Cueva del Precipicio, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a weekend trip from Texas

2019-03-01 Thread Nico Escamilla
Ill be in Bustamante this sunday taking the tour of the cave with friends, I shall ask about it. El vie., 1 de mar. de 2019 11:19 AM, Bill Steele escribió: > La Cueva del Precipicio > > Back in the 80s there were many fun/training trips to La Cueva del > Precipicio, located high up on the south

[Texascavers] La Cueva del Precipicio, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a weekend trip from Texas

2019-03-01 Thread Bill Steele
La Cueva del Precipicio Back in the 80s there were many fun/training trips to La Cueva del Precipicio, located high up on the south wall of the Bustamante Canyon, near Bustamante, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. I went there at least a half dozen times. My article in AMCS Activities Newsletter #14 called i