Good stuff Mark ! Mid-Illinois Grotto would be proud of you if they were still around (except possibly for the hearse and the border haircut deals) . I was hoping for some recognition at just getting back into caving at 70, forget about bolt climbing! I’m shooting for 80.....how about you?
Mark Ross From: Charles Loving Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:09 PM To: Cavers Texas Subject: Re: [Texascavers] High Adventure Once upon a time I joined Ron Bridgemon at Carlsbad. Bob Burney and I participated in a Parks thing where we mapped off the trail. We were party to that doings twice. I have no idea what was virgin or not. At one point Burney and my team of mappers scampered, we could scamper then, up a flowstone wall to a hole. We tied off to something, crawled through the hole and were at the top of a cliff. We rappelled down to what is the lake of the clouds. Can't say that we discovered it or not. Our Smokey had never seen it. I have some ancient photos of me in a cave surrounded by these huge balloon shaped formations the size of barrage balloons. Next day we mapped Spider Cave. On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:44 AM Mark Minton <mmin...@caver.net> wrote: Not dead yet! We still do a lot of bolt climbing in Germany Valley and elsewhere. With modern, lightweight tools it is easier than it used to be. I’ll be 70 next month. I don’t know who the oldest person to do bolt climbs in Carlsbad is, but I must be in contention. :-) Mark From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of bmorgan...@aol.com Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 10:28 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] High Adventure A geezer bolt climb, the Weazel is highly impressed! Sleaze From: Texascavers <texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com> On Behalf Of Mark Minton Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 5:42 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com; swrcav...@googlegroups.com Subject: [Texascavers] High Adventure Last March Bob Alderson, Yvonne Droms, and I joined Dwight Livingston on his expedition to Carlsbad Cavern. We did a lot of bolt climbing and discovered significant upper-level passages. I wrote an article for Inside Earth, the NPS Cave and karst newsletter. You can read it here: <https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/high-adventure-in-carlsbad-cavern.htm>. Mark Minton _______________________________________________ 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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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