The 2025 TCR will be held on October 23 to 26 at Camp Sol Mayer near Menard, Texas. This is the site of the 2021 and 2022 TCRs. When you arrive through the camp gates, stop at the Camp Store first, to register. Then proceed towards the river, veering right for camping. Note that only primitive camping is available! However, there are a few cabins and other buildings reserved for our caver elders. The loop at the Quiet Camp has a really nice bath house with flush toilets, showers, running water. The quiet camp is nicely shaded by magnificent big pecan trees, and has easy access to the San Saba River. Vendors this year will be set up just behind the Camp Store, on the way to the mud wrestling, etc. The Loud Camp will be to the left at the camp road intersection, and will also be the location of The Gauntlet, the rope climbing contest, the mud wrestling, and the sauna and hot tub. The eastern half of the Loud Camp will be roped off for those activities, and other areas roped off for Vendors, so please be cool and do not set up your camp in those areas, making the rest of the camp mad at you. Our excellent lineup of events this year includes The Gauntlet and the Cavers Yard Sale, as well as the traditional vendors, contests, Saturday evening banquet in the Dining Hall, TCMA and TSA Members meetings, mud wrestling and hot tub! (We hear that there might even be caving trips some time over the extended weekend!) Come on out to socialize with your extended caver family, remember those that are no longer with us, and welcome new ones into the fold. Bring your own reusable plates, bowls, cups, and utensils for the banquet, and plan to take all your trash and recyclables back home with you. And as usual, don't expect the registration folks or vendors to take credit cards --- BRING CASH!!! Check back here soon for a link to register online. What is TCR? Held every fall, the Texas Cavers Reunion attracts about 300 cavers from Texas, the United States and other countries. Many Texas caving are also represented, selling books, T-shirts, and other cool merchandise. Saturday features contests for rope climbing, cave surveying, and a speleo-obstacle course, followed by the Caver Feed and Awards Ceremony. Oh, and don't forget the door prizes! We are always looking alternate camp site for TCR. If you know of any other sites that that would be a good place for around 300 or so of your closest friends, let us know. Ideally, we are looking for something in the Texas Hill Country region, easy driving access to campsites, trees (shade), flat-ish areas suitable for tents and campers, and some semblance of remoteness from houses and the public in general. Other things that would be nice include electricity, running water, showers, flush toilets, and a running stream or large pond for swimming. A Bit of History The Texas Old Timers' Reunion was organized in 1978 by Gill Ediger, Chuck Stuehm, and Mike Walsh in order to fill a need created by the absence of a TSA Labor Day Project during most of the previous decade. It was felt that the TSA needed a fall caving event to bring Texas cavers together for fun and frolic and social interaction, all an important part of most cavers' caving education and experience. Over the years, the event grew from the original 90 participants at Luckenbach to well over 500 at some recent gatherings. Years ago the name was quietly changed from TOTR to TCR--the Texas Cavers' Reunion to avoid confusion with the "original" OTR -- Old Timers Reunion -- in West 'by God' Virginia. Although many cavers help with the event, the general philosophy is to try to make the Reunion appear that it just happens spontaneously without any or much direction from anybody. As Gill was fond of saying, "The only rule is that there are no rules!" Past TCR events have been held at the following locations: 1978 Luckenbach 1979 Cypress Bend Park, New Braunfels 1980, 1981 Reimers' Ranch 1982, 1983 Krause Springs, Spicewood 1984 Blue Hole, Wimberley 1985 Texas Canoe Trails, New Braunfels 1986, 1987 L&L Campground, New Braunfels 1988 - 1993 Lone Man II Ranch, Wimberley 1994 - 1996 Flat Creek Ranch, Johnson City 1997 Little Arkansas, Wimberley 1998 Chalk Bluff Park, Uvalde 1999 - 2000 Flat Creek Ranch, Johnson City 2001 - 2002 Horseshoe Ranch, Luling (near) 2003 Honey Creek Water Cave 2004 - 2005 Flat Creek Ranch, Johnson City 2006 Honey Creek Water Cave 2007 - 2009 Paradise Canyon Recreation Park 2010 Hidden Falls Adventure Park 2011 Flat Creek Ranch, Johnson City 2012 - 2013 Paradise Canyon, San Antonio 2014 Guadalupe River RV Park & Campgrounds, Spring Branch 2015 - 2019 Paradise Canyon, San Antonio 2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic😷 2021 - 2022 Camp Sol Mayer, Menard 2023 - 2024 Flat Creek Ranch, Johnson City