| April 2024 Minutes | | Meeting was held on April 02, 2024 | | Minutes recorded by: Brian Alger |
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| Attending | - Lee Ann Dean (Host)
- Skinny Reynolds (Host)
- Joshua Mokry (Guest)
- Terry Plett (Guest)
- Emma Plett (Guest)
- William Tucker
- Brian Alger
- Matthew Plett
- McKenzie Hall
- Dakota Masoner
- Ryan Marshall
| | Old Business | - Covered last month's minutes
| | New Business | - Treasury Report: $719.07
- Vertical Training - There are several members that would like to do some vertical training. We will Work out a date with William and those interested. He also offered an open invitation to anyone who wants to come over for some training. Just give him a call to see if he is available.
- Radon Monitoring - CaCa is doing radon monitoring in their caves. Lee Ann will contact Hunter at the park about a schedule.
- Mike Mansur - Mike leads speleothem repair trips. October 12th will be in the High Guads to Cottonwood Cave. Corrin, Lee Ann and Ryan expressed interest in going.
- Project Yeso - This year they are focusing on the area southeast of Corona NM. They are working with the BLM to document known previously unexplored caves to ensure protection from imminent wind farm development. On the last trip Ryan was involved in finding a deep pit, and dug open a cave with a couple rooms. The group stayed at the Fort Stanton Barracks.
- Lee Ann has several LAG patches. It was proposed that members would receive one at their one year anniversary while supplies last.
- Lee Ann has another cousin that has a cave on their property. It is located between Ozona and Sonora. There are rumors that it had parties in it in the past and water at the back of the cave. Lee Ann will try to locate it later this month.
- The government's PII "Personal Identifiable Information" governance of 2023 is having an unintended consequence to NM caving. The intent was to limit the information that government agencies can release. This is being enforced to such an extent that it is making it difficult to access cave related information.
| | Trip Reports | - Merus Cave Mapping - Brian gave a trip report for the cave mapping trip to Merus. Remaining survey stations were picked up from Cave #1 and work began in Cave #2. The "kids" enjoyed the driving their Bronco and Raptor down to the cave. Cave #2 has four pit entrances before opening up into the canyon. Work started at the canyon end with large booming gypsum passage. After the first pit, the cave quickly shrunk down to a narrow slot and then into a tight breakdown crawl. There were 11 stations set to this point for a total of 115 feet. We should be able to finish this one on the next trip.
- Sonora Caverns - Lee Ann got really sick over spring break while working at the caverns. Talks continued on what to do about the butterfly formation, to fix it or not to fix it. There is also consideration being made to fix the fringed drapery formation that was accidentally damage by a worker many years ago.
| | Upcoming Trips | - April 12-14: Project Yeso. For more information see https://projectyeso.org.
- April 26-28: Michael is hosting a beginners trip to McKittrick Hill. Permits to Sand cave have been acquired for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
- April 27-28: High Guads Restoration Project (HGRP) is looking for 15 people pending trip leader availability.
- May 10-12: Project Yeso. For more information see https://projectyeso.org.
- April 12-14: Gypcap weekend. Ryan is planning to attend. If interested in going, contact him for more information.
- The grotto would like to plan a potential High Guads trip later this spring.
- Tammy and William will host the next CRF to CaCa at the end of May. Also tossing around the idea of a week long trip in June.
| | Next Meeting | - May 7, 2024
- 7:00 PM
- Alger Residence
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