New Mexico Tech Student Grotto

Southwest Region of the National Speleological Society

Trips

Trip leader training-leader Mike Bilbo

On October 18 we'll meet at the Bunkhouse between 12:00-1:00 PM and get the

El Paso Archaeological Society (EPAS) ready and then take them on a cave

trip to the 1st Dragoon Inscription Site near the Lunchroom (less than

1/2-mile in) in Fort Stanton Cave.  So that will be training in visitor

management and cave-cultural interpretation for you.  On the 16th I'm going

to El Paso to give EPAS a lecture on the site and the Dragoons (who built

Fort Stanton).  Then 7:00 on Saturday morning I lead them from El Paso to

Fort Stanton and in the morning we visit some rock art sites and the old

fort.  And then to the Bunkhouse and cave trip.  The next day, Sunday, Oct.

19, our training group, minus EPAS, will go to Torgac's Cave and then

return to Socorro same day.  We'll be under the Fort Stanton Cave Study

Project permit for this training.

       Let me know if you can go to this training, Oct. 18-19.  As soon as I have

the list, I'll go back over your assigned topics to see if there are any

changes or additions (Dan Hoff and Jeff Jackson signed up for the training

this meeting).  Be sure to pick up your copy of the Leave No Trace caving

booklet from Jane Overton.

       If you can't go this time, then we'll schedule for a winter trip to Endless

Cave at McKittrick Hill, because of Roswell's bat hibernation closure,

which is Nov. 1-April 15 annually.

As I mentioned, this is also a pilot Leave No Trace Trainers Course

oriented to caves.  On completion of the training you will be a certified

LNT Trainer (Lee Walstad is already a certified LNT Trainer from a previous

class).  I'll also send Bill Murry a list of persons who are ready to be

BLM Fort Stanton Cave and Torgac's guides (you are required by Roswell Cave

Program to attend three trips to each cave as a guide-in-training).

 

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Contact: packrat[at]dragonsdawn.com

HGRP-Trip leader David Hunter

http://www.hgrp.org/

Information about the HGRP is found at this link.

You will still need to contact the trip leader for more information and future trips.

Mapping and survey trips; a great way to learn about how to find and map caves.

Trip Leader Kyle Rybecki-Times to be announced