Andy Gluesenkamp was a leader too... And apparently Leah had a great birthday in the cave!
On 2 February 2011 15:47, ellie :) <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone who came out...it was a blast! I even got to introduce > my best friend from Arkansas to Texas Caving this weekend :) > > Here is a link to a panoramic entrance photo from this weekend taken by > Galen Falgout: > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bYivM1E31ptTjrkpwk7ftA?feat=directlink > > Thanks so much to the following folks for leading trips: > Kurt Menking > Heather Tucek > Andy Zenker > Sandy Calhoun > Drew Wendeborn > Geary Schindel > Rob Bissett > Tom Florer > Aarron Wertheim > Gary Franklin > > Of the 83 cavers who signed in to the cave on Saturday, Patrick Olsen from > Austin, Texas was the only poor guy who didn't sign out and I am posting > names as promised. > > Ellie > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Kurt L. Menking <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My hats off to Ellie for getting the word out and motivating cavers from >> all over the state to come out to Honeycreek cave this weekend. Don Brusard >> and Kitty, and others helped run the tractor to get everyone in and out >> safely. It was largely a cat hearding exercise Saturday morning, but once >> everyone was in the cave everything seemed to go smoothly. >> >> >> >> We had 83 people go caving in Honeycreek Saturday. 83 people signed the >> log sheet, and 82 people signed out. The one who didn’t sign out was hunted >> down by cell phone and tongue lashed appropriately. We also had at least >> 3-6 surface people out during the day, so we had very close to 90 folks on >> the property. >> >> >> >> I don’t know the exact numbers but about 60 folks did through trips. Half >> went in at the spring, and half went in at the shaft. The groups were >> staggered and while there were a few bottle necks here and there they were >> not a big deal. One group did the through trip in 2 hours and 45 minutes. >> And one of those guys had only one flipper (he was the one setting the >> blistering pace). >> >> >> >> Another large group did the trip up the QA to the pretty walking section. >> >> >> >> And Ed, Mallory, Ellie, and others did the push to the end of the Mile >> Crawl passage. >> >> >> >> All in all a great weekend. I‘m not sure we had this many people in the >> cave at TCR. >> >> >> >> I know lots of photos were taken, so some of you need to send Mark your >> pics with a trip report. It was an epic weekend. >> >> >> >> Kurt >> > > -- Go find out! -Heather Tuček UT Grotto NSS 59660 (512) 773-1348 [email protected]
