| August 2026 Minutes | | Meeting was held on August 04, 2026 | | Minutes recorded by: Darcy Phillips |
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| Attending | - LeeAnn Dean (Host)
- Skinny Reynolds (Host)
- Tammy Tucker
- William Tucker
- Brian Alger
- Tim Kohtz
- Riley Siders
- Ryan Marshall
- Pierson Miller
- Darcy Phillips
| | Old Business | - Covered last month's minutes
| | New Business | - Established a date for the dig in October. Lee Ann has invited some old diggers from Ft. Stanton to give their takes on getting around the BFR. Jenna Crabtree wants to join the landowner trip to Mudgett's.
- SW Regional at Mansur’s house, 106 members. Fall Regional can’t be at Royal John, as it’s off limits legally, looking for a new site. Considering Alabaster Cave near Zuni Pueblo in NM (need approval from the Pueblo). Snowy River still open, survey running under private land and requires landowner permission.
- 3 LAG trip reports in the SW newsletter.
- News from Hunter: using drones to look for high leads inside Carlsbad. There might be preliminary trip to clean flowstone in the Globe room? Centipedes falling on people in visitor center. Rock huts reopening for the staff.
- William got a call from Sean Miller, a microbiologist looking to collect sediment samples from caves. He wants to join us on a trip but needs to get permits to collect samples.
| | Trip Reports | - Sand Cave - Ryan - No snakes on first check, but found rattler hiding under sign, had to encourage it to leave because of how close it was to climbing handholds. Good time in the maze, Matt was trying to find an additional way out he remembered from a previous visit. No fleas spotted.
- Carlsbad Cable Covering - Pierson - Saturday was all cable covering, no algae, training several newbies. Sunday looked at wires down in pit near top of the cross, trying to plan when/what needed. Found an ipad dropped in pit and historic matchboxes.
| | Upcoming Trips | - August 29-30 - Cable covering
- September 19-26 - Ft. Stanton resistivity with John McLean
- October 3-4 - Dig and Mudgett's
- TBD- Fall SW Regional
- November- Lake Cave restoration with John Cochran
- December 5 Winter Tech at NCKRI
- TBD- Possible trip to Cottonwood Cave or Black Cave
| | Program | - Popcorn reading of Caving Slideshow
| | Next Meeting | - September 1, 2026
- 7:00 PM
- Alger Residence
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