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| Awaiting us at the CRF Hut 6 at Carlsbad Caverns.... our ID Badges and paperwork... | ... and oh yeah... our tools for the cave! <grin> | A welcome sign from Shawn Thomas - used to cave with us and now is in the office of Cave Resources. |
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| Shawn - our hero! He actually contacted us that grottos could work there again!! | So the crew came in to get their badges - Kelly here doing the paperwork... | Carol, Dale T, and Jon |
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| Steve. Jon, and Dale A. | With the paperwork done we headed down to Lower Cave | Whew... kinda forgot how those ladders worked... nothing like a good sweat in the morning! |
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| Made even more fun carring down buckets, bottles, etc.... | First stop... National Geographic Pit... to check on our catch net built on June 2007. | We weren't sure what was still there after almost 7 years! But the net was working pretty good! |
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| We repaired one pipe and a few holes in the mesh from large rocks falling though... | Same picture as before but with no flash... what we see with our eyes.... | We were able to move the sections around to make needed repairs. |
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| We basically "Stitched" the plastic netting with Zip Ties... | A lot like doing stitches to hold a hole closed in y our jeans... | One person on one side would push it through and the other would then loop it back though another hole. |
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| Then you snip off the ends and whaala! Finished! | Dale T cleaned the pit out of any extra stuff down in it and Dale A and Jon did the stitching... | Some places one could do it by himself... |
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| Others... it was too high to mess with.. that's where Duane on top came in... he moved the sections so they could be worked on down in the pit. | Dale T meanwhile found a stash of coins that we must have missed last trip... | After the coin find, Dale T reglues a pipe together... it seems we never glued it in the first place as it had no purple primer stains. |
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| We had four total holes in the netting... two of 3 in x 3 in and 2 smaller than that. | Same picture as before but no flash... | See... Duane is actually there but never in the pictures! (cause I'm taking the pictures!) |
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| While we were working on the net, we had others from our group come and take a look at what we were doing... Steve observing | Kelly came and looked in on us too.. they were doing some trail cleaning. | We autographed the pipe when we built it... |
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| Good thing because we couldn't believe it was 7 years ago!!! | The other net we built... not hurt at all! | A few from the Lower Cave entrance to this area... |
