Each caving organization statewide has published their public
calendar, but I don't see anywhere
where it is all easily condensed to grasp the overall picture of
statewide activities being planned:
Below is an abridged partial list of caving related things going on
between now and the end of May:
Jan. 23 TSA Winter Meeting
Jan. ? Deep & Punkin ( I don't see a date )
Jan. ? Robber Baron ( I don't see a date )
Feb. 1 Newbie trip to Whirlpool ( private ?? )
Feb. 5 - 13 Seminar at CBSP
Feb. 5 Longhorn Cavern trip
Feb. 5 TPWD public trip to Kickapoo
Feb. 5 -6 Gov't Canyon Project
Feb. 9 TSS work night
Feb. 11-13 Colorado Bend Project
Feb. 12 TPWD public trip to Kickapoo
Feb. 19 Ezell's Cave Project
Feb. 19 TPWD public trip to Kickapoo
Feb. 22 Airman's Trip ( private ?? )
Feb. 25 - 27 TCC Winter Conference
Feb.26 TPWD public trip to Kickapoo
March 5th Gov't Canyon Project
March 5th Longhorn Caverns work trip
March 9 TSS work night
March 11 - 13 Colorado Bend
March 12 - 20 Spring Break caving expeditions
( Mexico or Guads, etc ?? )
March 12 Frio Bat Flight watch ??
( Turkey hunting season ?? )
March ?? Honeycreek trip
March 22 Whirlpool ( private ?? )
March 25 - 27 Bracken work project ??
April 1-3 NSS Board of Governors Meeting - Albuquerque, NM
April 2 Longhorn Caverns trip ??
April 1 - 3 TSA Spring Convention
April 8 - 10 Colorado Bend Project
April 9 - 10 Gov't Canyon Project
April ??? Honeycreek Trip
April 13 TSS work night
April 16 TCC CAVE DAY ( Saturday )
April 19 Whirlpool trip ( private ?? )
April 22 - 24 Easter caving trips ??
May 7 - 8 Gov't Canyon Project
May ?? Honeycreek trip
May 11 TSS work night
May 13 - 15 Colorado Bend Project
May 14 Public bat tours of Devil's Sinkhole resume ?
May 17 Airmans trip ( private ?? )
May 21 East Texas Caver's Cookout
May 21 Nature Conservancy trip to EJR Bat Cave
May 28 - 31 Memorial Day trips ??
( 40th Kentucky SpeleoFest )
This list does not count monthly informal digs going on at Kiwi Sink.
Also, there has been mention of commercial trips to help install lighting
at Cascade and Longhorn.
I heard a rumor somewhere of a caving trip to a commercial cave
near Boerne?
>From Facebook reports, various cavers are involved in promising
digs in the hill country, so there could be potential digging trips
going on this spring.
The itinerary above does not include various scientific symposiums
going on around the country that may be of interest to some, nor
the regional caving events across the country.
This doesn't count pay-to-cave commercial trips like: the Adventure
Tours at NBC, the
Saturday Wild Cave tour at Longhorn Caverns, the Saturday Wild Cave
tour at Inner Space
Caverns, or week-end public nature trips to Westcave Preserve. I
heard Caverns of
Sonora has a Discovery Challenge Tour that lets the general public rappel into
the infamous Devil's Pit.
Anyone with more accurate information is welcome to re-post this with
corrections
or in a format that is more logical or user-friendly, etc.
Obviously, the schedule above does not include caving trips being
planned individually,
or not being advertised.
In summary, this spring on any given Saturday there could be numerous
opportunities
to get underground or to socialize with cavers.
David Locklear
caver in Fort Bend County
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