| June 2025 Minutes | | Meeting was held on June 03, 2025 | | Minutes recorded by: Brian Alger |
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| Attending | - Brian Alger
- Susan Alger (Host)
- Don Mittan
- Lee Ann Dean
- Time Kohtz
- Tammy Tucker
- William Tucker
- Ford Brehmer
- Matthew Plett
- Katie Mann (Guest)
- Darcy Phillips
- Joshua Mokry
- Piper Weekly
- Matt Brasher
- Gunnison Brasher
- Jenson Brasher
- Pierson Miller
- Jordan Glassman
- Macy Tapp
- Ryan Marshall
| | Old Business | - Covered last month's minutes
- Merus cave mapping project continues. One more trip to Slot Cave is needed to complete the survey work. Maps are being drafted. Next trip is tentatively scheduled in late July.
| | New Business | - Tammy tried to host a Zoom Meeting for the folks down south but ran into some technical difficulties.
- William will host a vertical training class Saturday morning at 8:00am at 9910 CR 1300 in Wolfforth.
- Brick Report - Feedback from the survey team was extremely positive. It made surveying through tight breakdown very easy. Tammy commented that she felt superfluous.
- Lee Ann talked about the LAG patches that are presented to members on their one year anniversary as a member of lag.
- The Memorial Day CRF trip to Carlsbad Caverns National Park was cancelled due to personal reasons. It will tentatively rescheduled for later in June or July.
- Lee Ann is now a qualified trip leader to Cave Tree Cave. HGRP is looking to qualify more trip leaders.
- Taylor found a new cave in the Balmorhea area. The closest known cave is Phantom Closet Cave.
- LAG made the Cave Research Foundation Newsletter. Lee Ann submitted a report outlining the current state of the grotto and its current activity.
| | Trip Reports | - Lee Ann talked about her trip to the Ft Stanton Study Project. They expressed a great need to bring young people to the project.
- Jordan Glassman gave a High Guads trip report. The trip included a stop at Sitting Bull Falls.
- Brian gave a trip report of the Merus survey trip. Cave now stands at 274.4 feet. The survey circled back on itself and went above the main passage. Quite interesting for a gypsum cave.
| | Upcoming Trips | - The Southwestern Summer Regional will be held June 6-7 at Royal John Mine. The mine is located near San Lorenzo in southwest New Mexico. It is a wet cave with 43F pools. The meeting will be held at June 6 @ 9:00am followed by caving opportunities.
https://swr.caves.org/2025/04/04/swr-summer-regional-2025 - There has been some interest in getting the Ralph Canyon project going again. This dig located at the bottom of a large sinkhole began in 1989. Digging has been on and off over the years with a lot of progress made but no breakthrough.
- Tentative trip to Blowing Crack Cave for late summer.
| | Program | - Don Mittan attended the meeting and gave an interesting talk about the history of LAG, safety and funny stories. LAG was founded in 1988 by Noble Stidham and Don joined in 1989.
| | Next Meeting | - July 1, 2025
- 7:00 PM
- Tucker Residence
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