You can officially call yourself an old-timer now, if you didn't understand Mr. Grime's trip report, or recognize the cultural generation gap between new young cavers and yourself.
There were a few trip reports similar in nature to that one in the Texas Caver back in the 80's, or at least in grotto newsletters. I bet you might find something similar in an old S.U.C.K.S. newsletter, from way back in the 70's. While most of my generation finds writing with grammar errors, and spelling errors atrocious, it seems to be absolutely unimportant to anybody under 30 in e-mails, but especially in tweets, or social messaging. For example, it is "Whirlpool's Birth Canal", not whirlpools birth canal, as the name of the cave and the name of the passage are capitalized and the apostrophe shows the passage is that of the cave, ( in order to be more clear to readers who are not familiar with the subject matter. ) I will admit that lately when texting professional customers, I have resorted to bizarre abbreviations. Mr. Grimes deserves some credit for being the first caver to mention dubstepping in a caver post. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep I have no earthly idea , what is "fie." I first thought he meant FYI, but that wouldn't read right. So it must be a typo for "For." ( probably typed on a touchscreen device ? ) This was more of a road-trip report, than a caving trip report. He barely mentions being in a cave. Nonetheless, I enjoyed reading it. David Locklear V.P. of A.S.S. 1987
