Not at all boring, David. Fritz Holt fritz...@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 12:41 PM, David via Texascavers > <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > This post is not related to Charlie. It is just a boring long-winded > personal story. So please hit the Delete Button now, if you haven't already. > > > In 1989, I met 2 guys who alleged that they were cavers. ( I met them at a > Houston Grotto meeting. I think they joined. ) They claimed to have been > introduced to caving in college in San Marcos. I can only guess that they > were caving there in the late 70's or early 80's. One was named Bill Jones > and he would now be about 62-63. He lived north of Galveston and flew as a > Air Force Reserve Navigator on F-14s. He did not appear to me to be really > interested in caves when I met him. He seemed to be the conservative type. > The other guy was his younger brother David Jones. David was a hard-core > backpacker and pot-head, so I got the impression that his brother Bill was > just tagging along. They were as different as night and day. > > I took them to the 3 caves out at Langtry in 1989. I never heard a peep > from Bill ever again. > > David and I became semi-friends and he was the person responsible for me > building a car that I called "The SpeleoStationwagon," which was my pride and > joy in the era that I actually went in caves. > > David mentored me by teaching me the entire culture of Mexican bordertowns at > a time, that I was very disgruntled from breaking up with my fiance. > > He and I did some off-trail caving at Grutas de Bustamante, and Precipicio > and Carrizal around 1991 to 1992. > > He thought about killing me in the Guads, but fortunately realized the error > was 100% his and then he felt pretty stupid. > > He has owned a welding business in Terlingua since 1998, and that was the > last time that I spoke with him. > > [ Sidenote: Around 1991, in the Guads, we were rolling down the highway at > 80 mph in his custom truck. I had just changed his flat tire, and mounted > the flat tire back on a rack welded to the front speleo-bumper. The tire > fell off and he lost control of the truck, but managed to regain control > before the truck almost rolled-over. He got out of car and I chased me > around the vehicle with a crow bar saying that when he catches me that he is > going to kill me, and I believed him. But when he gets to the front of the > car, the entire speleo-bumper is gone. He looks down the road and the tire > is still firmly bolted to the entire speleo-bumper. I was so relieved and > wanted to laugh at him, but he was still holding the crow bar. ] > > Anyways, we were bummed out as we had had a permit for Madonna Cave and spent > 2 days in vain searching for it and gave up and did lots of ridgewalking ( > semi-lost ) and somehow eventually ended up high above overlooking the west > rim of Slaughter Canyon not far from Lake Cave. It was a long walk back to > 3-Mile Hill. > > David Locklear > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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