In the fall of 1987, about 6 A.S.S. members camped on a small river bank at the following location
22.853128, -99.121751 http://goo.gl/maps/hVUlI The trip was lead by Tim Jones ( who now owns a software business in Austin, I think ) We spent a day ridgewalking here, and tried our best to find a cave, but did not find anything. Tim had info and topo maps on vague potential leads that he got from Austin cavers. We ended up going to a village called San Jose in the El Cielo, and caving there. We were all too young., inexperienced, ill-equipped, hard-headed, etc to accomplish anything, ( especially me. ) But the biggest obstacles were personnel differences, and that none of us knew much about Mexico, or Spanish. However, I learned things on that trip that I carried with me years later - like you do NOT pull off on the side of a busy Mexican highway in the middle of the night and take a nap. Tim went back to Mexico several times to ridgewalk with a Houston caver who is well known for finding entrances in that part of Mexico. But I lost contact with him 25 years ago. He wanted to be a hard-core caver in 1987, and was designing his own custom headlight. He was President of A.S.S. in 87 and probably 88. But his biggest impact, was that he was the only caver there with a car. The rest of us were poor students. Those were the good ole days, right ? David Locklear
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