Alright, all you caving ghouls!
Having gotten your bellies full of candy, sweets, orange beer (?), razor blade
filled caramel corn balls and apples, and still wearing that Halloween make up,
it's time to work off those calories, get those cobwebs outta your hair, and
lose that sunken look to your face by helping out at Longhorn Caverns this fall!
This will be occurring the first Saturday of November, December, February,
March, April, and culminating in May.
The staff of LCSP is very enthusiastic about having the TSA back and involved
and plans several surprises for us later on.
Some of the tasks we have in mind will occur above the cave, in the cave, and
WAAAY back in the cave.
They're listed below and, if interested, contact me offline, expressing what
are you're interested in:
* Ridgewalking/surveying/mapping known and unknown caves on the Park
property (depends on cavers familiar with the Park layout participating).
* Continuing the ongoing survey WAAY in the back of the cave, near
Crownover, around the sump area (Peter Sprouse heading up, but, ease of access
is contingent on a couple of unknowns: water levels and whether the
Crownover Causeway has silted back in or not. Unknown at this point).
May have to start this up in December, once the above conditions are know.
* Trail "Rebuilding" in the cave. Quite a few areas of the cave, Lovers
Lane, in particular, were washed out this spring and need to be rebuilt.
I'll be heading this up and it WILL begin in November. Could use folks
with experience in building trails.
There are a plethora of other projects the park has in mind for us, but, this
is just the start. (They didn't want to overwhelm us!).
If you have any interest or experience in the above, please give me a scream.
We will be meeting at the Visitors center at Longhorn Cavern State Park 9-ish
on Saturday.
Please bring your own water, food, and camping gear, as camping will be
available at the LCSP Picnic area both Friday and Saturday nights.
Please reply, off line, if you'll be coming or have any questions.
If you don't hear back from me right away, don't fret and howl in the night and
think I'm ignoring you. I will be in the Guads next week and, happily, out of
reach of cellphones, Facebook, TV, and the Net.
Thanks and have a good weekend!
Mark Alman
