I called Marion tonight and he mentioned it is his birthday. He also said he hadn't been
crawling in a cave in ..."a couple of hours." Truthfully!
The Oct 2012 issue of the NSS News was a "Special Issue: MOS", with a multitude of stories and photos about him by cavers, including Bill
Steele, Mark Minton, and Philip Rykwalder.
It was kept as a surprise for him for his 70th, so he told me when he got it and saw a photo of him taking up the _entire_ front cover, he
thought "Oh God, I must be dead!"
Logan
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On 9/24/2014 8:19 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers wrote:
Marion O. Smith is right. (So is an old goat.) Aside from the impressive level of activity for someone who is 72 today, nobody else, I'm sure,
keeps track of all that. I think I remember when he was closing in on 3000 vertical caves, counting each cave only once, no matter how many
times he visited it or how many drops it had. That was years ago. -- Mixon
A correspondent has given me his caving statistics for 2014 as of September 19:
162 different caves visited, of which 104 were new to me (including 32 new pits), 443:52 cave hours:minutes, 6992 feet of rope climbed in
pits, 8200 feet of virgin passage explored.
Who would this be? (It couldn't be anyone else.) -- Mixon
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