Yearly Archives: 2026

News

SWR Website Restored

The SWR website has was completely offline for over a month, but has now been restored to service.

[UPDATE 2026-07-24: after some discussions over email we believe we basically understood what happened that made the website go down and for people to lose administrative access, and we believe there is now a better awareness at NSS that will hopefully avoid this kind of situation in the future.]

Due to a still unexplained reason, the SWR website which is hosted on the NSS servers, suddenly stopped working, all website access and links were broken, and all administrative privileges of the SWR Website Committee were deleted from the Plesk interface used to manage the website, so nobody was able to fix this.

Despite efforts to contact the right person, no mitigation or explanation was forthcoming. However, thanks to a member of the NSS website server team, our access to the Plesk hosting tool for swr.caves.org has been restored, which let us also restore the website as it was in May from a backup.

We still do not know what happened or why, but for now everything on the website appears to be restored to its previous functionality. Please contact the SWR Website Committee if any information on the website appears to be missing or outdated.

Thanks to everyone for their patience, and to the folks at NSS who helped restore our access to the website.

News

SWR Spring Regional 2026

April 24 to 26, 2026. Information about the upcoming SWR Spring Regional is below. Click here for the flyer.

Map to the Spring Regional

Southwest Regional April 24-26, 2026, arranged by Pajarito Grotto Location is on private land, east of US285 between Vaughn and Roswell. Coming from the north, turn off is after mile 155 of left (east). If you go too far you enter Chavez county. coming from the south, its 1.7 miles after the Mesa site, which is now just a feed tank, to DeBaca county. Please return all gates to as you found them. Its about 3.2 miles to the camp site, park off the road. Follow SWR signs or flags.

Camp coordinates 34.00086, -104.65914

As per agreements with the rancher, NO PETS, NO FIRES. (Expect it to be windy so fires are forbidden). Bring water, food, shelter from sun and wind, and sunscreen. Caving in at least 4 nearby caves that may be muddy or wet, nor not. Bring everything you need as there are no commercial facilities for miles!! Cellphones probably work. My number is 505 690 3504.

John Lyles

SWR Spring Regional 2026Download

Additional information from Andrea Landaker:

As announced in SW Cavers, the Spring Southwest Regional will be April 24-26, on private land with gypsum caves between Vaughn and Roswell. See the attached flyer for directions and details.

John/Jerry will be arriving around noon on Friday the 24th, so please don’t arrive before then. The road is dirt but well maintained, and there will be some route markers placed. 

The business meeting will be at 9am on April 25. Here is the agenda; please let me know if you have an item to add.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hBufInJiIf9NVcCOQ0SPNwI74ro4glBANFDDc9JvOj0/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you to John Lyles and the Pajarito Grotto for organizing this!