Carol,
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NM Caver,
I am attaching a text document in case you can't download the pretty one.
See you here (but not Bill) in December,
Linda Starr
Southwestern Region, National Speleological
Society
Winter Technical Meeting - December 5, 2009
Hosted by Sandia Grotto, Albuquerque, NM
PLACE: Blake Jordans office at World Group Securities, Inc., 5600
Wyoming NE, Suite 20,
Albuquerque, NM (see map below).
How to get to the meeting and presentations: Take I-25 North toward Santa Fe
(or coming from the North, youre there). Turn east at the San Mateo and Osuna
exit and go South on San Mateo. Turn left (soon) on Academy; go East for
several miles, and turn Right or South on Wyoming. Your first left turn takes
you to a shopping center where WalMart, restaurants and other amenities await.
Instead of going to WalMart (where RVs are welcome to camp overnight) and the
amenities, turn Right, immediately behind the building on your right. Parking
is above ground in the parking lot. Come to the building and head downstairs.
Look for signs pointing the way ?SWR ?. Youve made it.
Important Times: 8:00 9:00 a.m. Registration & Welcome; Reserve
your Dinner Place
9:00 10:00 a.m. Business Meeting (including election of
officers and
discussion regarding a 2013 New
Mexico NSS Convention bid)
10:15 12 noon Presentations on New Mexico cave projects.
12 noon 1:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own) at any of many
nearby restaurants -
several within walking distance.
1:00 5:30 p.m. Presentations on Cave Science and New
Mexico
Exploration.
5:30 6:00 p.m. BREAK, Cleanup, general milling around.
6:00 7:00 p.m. DINNER, catered barbecue fare from
Whole Hog;
perhaps a little background music
and cave slides
7:30 8:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Dwight Deal The
Wulong Karst, China
--a New Addition to the List of
UNESCO World Heritage
Sites
8:00 - ?? Caver Decadence one and all! You might find
yourself
crawling through chairs if youre
not shy.
A program and schedule of speakers will be provided at registration. Talks
will include: the usual NM caving project reports, research
updates, exploration, historical archeology, and international expeditions.
Places to stay: (Contact these people who have offered beds and/or floor space
call ahead for reservations first come, first serve.) Or you
can stay with your favorite cavin pals.
Robert Grubbs, 6115 Eubank Ave. NE, 505-385-7886,
[email protected], no animals.
Linda Starr, 509 Aliso Dr. NE, 505-261-7648 (cell), or 505-255-6037
(home), [email protected]
(a gentle dog, 2 cats, no smoking and no TV).
Aaron Birenboim & Sherie Pennebaker,1248 Princeton Dr. NE,
505-232-3289, [email protected]
(2 dogs, cockatoos, cavies or guinea pigs).
Liz Galbraith, East Mountains on South 337,505-453-4552,
[email protected] , no pets
Nathan Dale, University of NM area, 575-418-8443, [email protected].
There are a few hotels along San Mateo (probably pricey), and numerous chain
motels along I-25 and
I-40, enroute to the regional. We have a full page of restaurant
recommendations in the area if you are coming Friday night, for Sunday morning
and during the day on Saturday.
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