Then again, it's hard not to duplicate work if the previous work is all secret or the cavers won't talk to you. I've seen this numerous times where some caver gets offended because someone else has contacted the owner or rediscovered their cave. It seems to be the universal caving constant and has occurred in every state I've worked in. LOL.
Geary From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 6:45 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: a cave question (Cave Entrance Tags) Bev Shade and Peter Sprouse have been the keepers of the PEP cave index. It's always a good idea to talk to the cavers that have been working an area for years before boldly going where many others have been before. Jerry. In a message dated 6/14/2010 11:18:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: And another thing about tags.... Traipsing about the woods around Conrad Castillo - my little group came across a cave at the base of a cliff. It looked like a good one. You could see it drop off to the left and there were stals on the ceiling. It had a tag, so its assumed its already been all accounted for. We're looking for "new caves" after all. However - who's holding the index? All we had was a little number and there was no information about these tags at the field house. Best we could do was to write down the number and perhaps get Peter Sprouse to look it up for us when we got back to Austin.... A system. Indeed. Not a real good solution in that time and place. Of course these days, the entire index and all the maps could be put on someone's iPhone. I digress... -WaV
