Dick fell in love with caving right after high school and took regular excursions from Connecticut into the back hills of Virginia. After moving west he explored, mapped, and photographed caves in the Southwest, Mexico and Central America, and Borneo. Dick will focus on Lechuguilla Cave, which is in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, and Bigfoot Cave, which is in the Marble Mountains Wilderness. Bigfoot Cave held the US cave depth record for three years, in the late 1970s.
Dick moved here in 1969 and taught chemistry labs at (then) Humboldt State College. Later he worked in house construction, taught in middle school, and was an analytical chemist at North Coast Laboratories in Arcata. Now retired, besides being his wife Kathy’s handyman, he teaches beekeeping at CPH and plays brass instruments.
Programs are held on the third Thursday of the month, September through May, at Six Rivers Masonic Lodge, 251 Bayside Road, Arcata. Drinks and goodies are served at 7:00 p.m., the program begins at 7:30. You can also find it on Zoom—go to rras.org for the link.
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