Dos Bocas in Puerto Rico is not quite a float. A group of us Texas covers did that with some PR cavers as guides.
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:43 PM David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote: > A lot of non-caving people probably have no idea that there are lots of > deep caves in the remote wildernesses. In fact, there are several already > mapped in far southernmost Alaska, and Idaho and the Canadian province of > British Columbia. > > The deepest limestone caves and deepest vertical caves of North America > are in that region. > > I can't name any of them off the top of my head, but they are on the > various deep caves list. > > I would bet some Canadian cavers already had been in this cave, or at > least ridge-walked around that specific range and probably back in the 80's. > > There is a deeper lava cave, but the lava tube passage is less than a few > meters below the surface. > > > Sidenote: > > I took Geology 101 at A&M in 1985 and caver Tom Byrd was my T.A. He took > me to "Midnght Cave" in Carta Valley. We camped on the old Triangle with > avout ten C.V.S.S. folks. I had met them once at my first TCR in New > Braunfels, or at the precious Spring Convention at Inner Space Caverns. > > I forgot most of that, but Jon Everage was there, and I got to know him. > > We all sat around the campfire in The Triangle. I had hitchiked from > College Station to Austin to meet Tom. But I think Gil or Bill Elliot or > both took me back to Austin to hitch-hike home to College Station, or maybe > that was a 2nd trip, as I think I may have "possibly" I done that twice. > I had done a remarkable amount of hitch-hiking by 1987, when I began my > futile work on "The SpeleoStationwagon." I only have a blurry picture of > that vehicle up near Joya de Salas in the El Cielo area of The Sierra > Madres. Anyways, that all started rumors about me being crazy, that > eventually got way too exaggerated around the caver-campfire. I was just > very naive and uninformed, just like all of the hikers that recently made > the tragic news in Peru, Morocco, and Mexico. I was just lucky and never > encountered trouble. > > > Another sidenote: > > It was really great to see the C.V.S.S. pose for a group photo last year. > I felt I could understand at least a itsy-bitsy tiny bit some of their > comradery and memories at least of the one reunion they had there in The > Triangle. That might of been early spring of 86. Either way, I knew a > lot of speleo-stuff for a novice caver - just enough to be over-confident > and dangerous - lacking true experience. > > Now in almost 2019, I am way too out of shape and would be even more > likely to be clumsy and accident-prone. My next cave will involve floating > downstream on a large inner-tube with a life-jacket in tropical stream. > Hopefully that will be in 2020 in Puerto Rico or Cuba or southern Mexico. > > D.L. > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > -- Charlie Loving
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