Greetings, cavers! This week Wednesday we will hear from Jim "Crash" Kennedy, who will talk about recent exploration in Nuevo Leon, Mexico and the discoveries that were made over a week long expedition in November 2016. Rancho Minas Viejas is a 2800 hectare (11-square-mile) ranch in the Sierra de Iguanas of Nuevo Léon containing silver and lead mines dating back to 1700, an abandoned mining town, and hundreds of caves. First visited by Texas cavers around 1980, it is most famous for 483m-deep Pozo de Montemayor, mapped in the early 90s. However, many leads remained before access was lost. In 2015 trips restarted with a goal of adding unsurveyed passages to the map, but loss of the old survey data changed this objective to resurveying the whole cave. We also wanted to more accurately (i.e., with GPS) locate the other caves on the ranch, and find new caves that may potentially provide a higher entrance to Montemayor.
The presentation portion of the grotto meeting will be live streamed via Periscope https://www.periscope.tv/utgrotto at approximately 8:30pm CST (the actual time will be announced via Twitter @UTGrotto). *** The meeting is at 7:45pm in Burdine 116. Follow this link to a map of where the building is located on the University of Texas campus: http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/bur.html <http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html> For information on Underground Texas Grotto activities, please see www.utgrotto.org Before the meeting, gather at the Taco Join on San Jacinto Blvd. This is the best place to park and meet folks walking over to the meeting. After the meeting we continue with the decades long tradition to reconvene for burgers, beer, and tall tales of caving at Posse East! www.posse-east.com <http://east.www.posse-east.com/> See you there! Cheers, Aubri Jenson UT Grotto Vice-chair
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