huck

Mysterious as whoa.

Narrowly defeated me at pool. Twice.

Everyone in Saint Louis smokes.

On the way out to our caving adventures, we stopped by a festival in this cutesy West Texas enclave. Gorging ourselves on schnitzel and gulash (sp?), we prepared to blaze some cave.

The Maguire-Schneider clan was kind enough to host a weekend redux of Turkey Day.  Kevtron and I fried the turkey.  Everyone drank good whiskey and laughed their asses off.  I couldn’t shake ‘Til Tuesday’s “Voices Carry” for the life of me.  All-in-all a wonderful day.

Pics by Paige Maguire.

This weekend, on assignment from the President (who’s daughter had been kidnapped away to a nearby cave by a deranged anti-cave terrorist cell) Garrett Johnston (Caveblazer callsign: “Clutch”) suggested that we hit up Enchanted Rock to check things out and blaze some cave.  It was somewhere in the middle of the second leg of our cave journey, that I realized I was caving with a blazer on (and a scarf) and, well, the rest is history.  Allow me to introduce the team:

Caveblazer (aka: "GQ")

Nitro

Calypso

Clutch

Helpful Caveblazer trivia:

- Rule 1: NEVER Caveblaze alone.  When you’re traversing god’s arteries, deep in the belly of this rock mama, you need backup.

- Caveblazer Motto: “Thoroughness is tantamount.”  I just can’t stress this enough.

- Caveblazer Team dog: “Cave-9″

- Recipe for Cave Juice: 5 parts vodka, 1 part Cave Juice.

- Rule 15: Always bring sour straws.

- Caveblazer’s alter-ego day job is being a geology professor at a local university

- “We didn’t travel all this way not to blaze some cave!”