Good story, David. 
Fritz
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> 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
> 
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