Twenty-one cavers went into Honey Creek Cave on Saturday and took all the cave diving gear that Jean “Creature” Krecja and James Brown will use this coming weekend to do their exploratory dive. Creature and James will first dive the 1,435 foot first HS Sump, then traverse 1,000 of air-filled passage only the two of them have seen, and then dive a second sump, which has not been entered yet at all.
Thank you very much to the following cavers who hauled dive gear on Saturday. The lengths of trips were 7 ½ hours to 15. The 15 hour trip was due to two cavers remaining with Creature and James for several hours to prep their gear for their dive. Chris Butscheck GHG James Brown UTG and DFW Sandi Calhoun UTG Galen Falgout UTG Jared Fuller Living in Amarillo Gerry Geletzke Lives in Waco Lydia Hernandez UTG Jean “Creature” Krecja UTG Caleb Mayeux GHG Mallory Mayeux GHG Kurt Menking Bexar Herman Miller Lives in Alpine, TX Ryan Monjaras Cowtown George-Paul Richmann GHG Mike Roxichaux UTG Shawn Ruzek DFW Bill Steele DFW Ellie Thoene Bexar and DFW Diana Tomchick DFW Jessie Walker DFW And a special big THANKS! Goes out to Don Broussard, who once again did a superb job of driving the tractor and lowering and raising everyone in and out of the shaft entrance. He worked tirelessly from the moment the first load of three people went into the cave Saturday morning at 9:23 a.m. until the last two came out at 1:15 a.m. We could use some other people helping with driving the tractor both this weekend and April 3. Let me know who you are. Creature and James could use help this Saturday in getting some of their gear out of the cave. Please, some cavers come forward to help. What you will do is go in later in the day Saturday with someone who knows the way well, and wait until Creature and James come back through the long sump. You will then help them pack up the gear, carry some of it out, and leave the rest for the people who have spoken up and said they will go in on April 3 to retrieve the rest of the gear. Those people are: Branndon Bargo Greg Bargo James Brown Sandi Calhoun Michael Cicherski Kristina Hager Lydia Hernandez Debra Heyer Ben Hutchins Christopher King Jean “Creature” Krecja Niki Lake Ryan Monjaras Patrick Olsen George-Paul Richmann Drew Wendeborn (and probably other ASS cavers) A NOTE ON APRIL 3 – IT’S EASTER WEEKEND. IF YOU DIDN’T REALIZE THAT WHEN YOU VOLUNTEERED TO HELP ON APRIL 3, AND CANNOT MAKE IT BECAUSE OF THAT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Bill Steele --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
