Good story, David. Fritz [email protected] Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 21, 2014, at 10:49 AM, David via Texascavers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > [email protected] | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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