According to this news story, Texas has a "professional spelunker."
http://herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?ewcd=c2d2192a35803d5e&-session=HeraldZeitung:42F944EB1663d0000BOUK3320071
I have never heard of Mr. Price ( supposedly from Spring Branch,
presuming in Comal County )
But everybody knows Dr. Lundelius.
Was Mr. Price really "exploring a newly discovered passage in Snookies Cave" ??
Any of you out there, the alleged "UT graduate students" that plan to
further investigate this??
Not to re-ignite the old spelunker vs. caver debate, but I know many
old-timer cavers that spent many years trying their
best to be good respectable spelunkers long before people started
calling cave explorers as cavers. On many of my
first caving trips, I was excited to be spelunking. I have no
issue with recreational cavers using the term spelunking.
In fact, if I were to write a book, it would most likely be have the
word spelunking in the title.
It appears that in many areas were uninformed people enter caves, they
cause problems and get labeled as
spelunkers.
Now, I am not sure what a professional spelunker is. Meaning, I
don't see how anybody could make a living doing
recreational caving. They could be a tour guide for caves on
private property ?
There is a difference between an arm-chair spelunker and an arm-chair
caver, but you can be both, if you want.
David Locklear
arm-chair spelunker from Fort Bend County
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