Category: Trip reports

Participants Friday 9th January With a smaller group than usual, we were going to need some new team leaders and sketchers on this trip. Cameron and Evan both offered to help with this, and were subjected to an evening of Alex’s sketch training earlier in the week. We’d also had a minor emergency as one…

Participants Friday 12th December Given the unseasonably warm weather forecast for the weekend, we decided to yet again camp for our December trip. Cavers arrived over the course of the afternoon at the PY camping spot and we got to work putting up the tent and preparing dinner. The evening meal was a reprise of…

Participants Saturday 15th November Ridgewalking Carrin (TL), Henry Little, Minori Yoshida Another excellent day of Project Yeso ridgewalking! We returned to the mesa we first visited last month to more fully document its linear fissure system. We hoped to find connections between the dozens of surface collapse features (below) or an entrance into the fissure…

Participants Friday 17th October After a long summer break, it was great to be back for the next season of Project Yeso! Alex and Carrin arrived at around 6:30pm at the camp spot, and met up with a few of the NMT cavers who had arrived earlier. With the sunlight fading, we got to work…

Participants Friday 7th March On reaching the field house in the evening, we got to work preparing dinner for the weekend. This time the menu was a creamy shrimp and pasta recipe for Friday, while Saturday’s meal was a slow cooked chicken curry. After dinner and meal preparation, we organised the teams for Saturday. We…

Participants Friday 7th February People began arriving at the field house from around 6pm. We had a record number showing up, so had reminded everyone to bring sleeping pads and potentially tents in case the bunks got too crowded. Alex and Minori arrived at around 7pm. After unloading the truck, we got started preparing food…

Participants Friday 10th of January Alex and Minori set off from Albuquerque in the afternoon on Friday. On our way to the field house, we made a detour through the project area to take care of an errand at one of the caves. As soon as we turned onto the county roads, we encountered a…