| October 2025 Minutes | | Meeting was held on October 07, 2025 | | Minutes recorded by: Brian Alger |
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| Attending | - Tammy Tucker (Host)
- William Tucker (Host)
- Darcy Phillips
- Jordan Glassman
- Brian Alger
- Lee Ann Dean
- Matthew Plett
- Tim Kohtz
- Ryan Marshall
| | Old Business | - Covered last month's minutes
- Ralph Canyon Project - This trip was on but is now off. Georgia is currently on furlough so it is on hold until further notice.
| | New Business | - No change from last month ($890.19)
- Safety - Nothing New
- Where ins the loaner equipment. Lee Ann is trying to track where it currently is.
- Where ins the loaner equipment. Lee Ann is trying to track where it currently is.
- Piper, Pierson and Taylor made the Southwestern Region newsletter
- A new blind scorpion species has been discovered in Lost Cave in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
- Lee Ann will be the new Project Manager of the Cave Research Foundation / Southwestern Region.
- Officer elections will be held in December
- LAG received a $35 donation
- The Carlsbad Bureau of Land Management will be opening up Endless Cave to guided trips by authorized trip leaders only.
| | Trip Reports | - Brian, Ryan and Pierson gave trip reports of their trip to Wind Hicks Cave and KFFC Cave. Levi was not able to attend the meeting but wanted everyone to know that after this trip, he was the most physically tired he had ever been.
- Darcy read a trip report by Taylor to Fort Stanton cave.
- Pierson talked about his speleothem repair trip with Mike Mansur to the Cantina room in Cottonwood Cave.
- The lint picking and algae removal trip to CaCa was a big success. In one place, the algae was found to be covered with calcite. Overnight intense thunderstorms caused flooding in the kitchen of the new hut. Approximately 5-6 gallons was water was mopped up.
- Lee Ann was joined by many "old timer" cavers at Fort Stanton Cave Study project. They did resistivity monitoring of cactus hill. They got to go to Snowy River.
| | Upcoming Trips | - October 11-12, 2025 - Fall Southwestern Regional at the Guadalupe Mountains Lincoln National Forest Hosted by Pecos Valley Grotto
- blowing Crack Dig - There is still interest in having a dig weekend later this fall.
- Tentative trip to McKittrick hill. Still working on dates.
| | Next Meeting | - November 4, 2025
- 7:00 PM
- Alger Residence
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