[Texascavers] Government Canyon Karst Project
Cavers, The Government Canyon Karst Project will be starting up again on the first weekend of November. The schedule for the year has been added to the TSA events calendar on the website. Caving (ridgewalking, surveying, digging, etc.) will take place on both days of the weekend. Camping is always available. On November 2 & 3 we will meet at 9:00 in the morning in the parking lot of the Volunteer Resource Center (Ranch House). See the TSA website for a map and directions. Contact Marvin Miller for additional information. Marvin ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
Re: [Texascavers] Sort of Houston related
On Sep 19, 2019, at 5:29 PM, David wrote: > > > All the caving discussions are clearly on Facebook now. That’s because you killed CaveTex. Crash ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] Sort of Houston related
This is mostly a correction to my post 48 hours ago. Rainstorm Imelda hung around, ( as forecasters warned was possible ), but only dropped about 8 inches of rain inside the city limits of Houston. Surprisingly some specific low spots that always flood, had severe to extreme flooding and caught a lot of people by surprise ( even though they had 4 days of warning ). A majority of people probably missed work today.So many people in southeast Texas ( thousands ?? ) do not have a high enough IQ to understand the term "flash flood." I almost got caught in this one, as it was so hard to skip work, but I sheltered in place. On a totally different note, I was driving yesterday in a part of Houston that I had not been in 23 years. It was where my caving friend, Charles Haskett, had fallen out of a tree.The old run-down neighborhood had many new homes and the tree was gone. Also, in other news An old caving acquaintance whom I very deeply admired, Victoria Arbizu-Sabater, has returned to live in Spain. GHG old-timer, Mike Connolly is still trying to get healthy. I have survived 5 weeks renting a room from my Craigslist roomlord. On another topic, I do not know if I met Lee White at the past NSS Conventions, but he sounded like someone who I admired. 2019 has been a difficult year for the caving community. Another rant, It is going to be interesting next week to see how many of the newly developed areas flooded ( ones retardedly built after Tropical Storm Harvey ). I say storm, because Hurricane Harvey never hit Houston proper. Why are Houston school buses and gov't vehicles here not better at handling high water ? But more importantly, why do officials park them in low-lying areas to purposely let them flood ? Also, All the caving discussions are clearly on Facebook now. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
Re: [Texascavers] weird things in caves
In the town of Hidalgo Mexico, there is a typical old Catholic church, but the wall behind the pulpit is a rock-shelter. The entrance had an ugly galvanized chain-link fence ( or did back in the mid-90s.) Right behind the pulpit is a rock formation resembling a 24 inch long rock projecting outward and downward about 6 feet off the ground. It has been touched by a million tourist in hopes of receiving an instant miracle from their diety. A very vague rumor is that many decades or centuries ago, the formation was once shaped like a baby or maybe some divine image like the ones that appear on toast sometimes.. Cavers used to go in the cave, but not sure if there is a good map. Local spelunkers and tourist likely go beyond the fence. I had some really really good food there near the food market, sometime around 1996. If there were a company that constructed cave gates, then a unique esthetic barrier could be built here. I doubt though, that the congregants would want to encourage a smelly bat roost nor a potential bat attack. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chorrito https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chorrito I do not remember there being a carving of The VoG on the formation, nor a man-made tunnel into the cave. Nearly all caves in Mexico with public access have a memorial to The VoG, which sometimes might include a small assortment of abandoned walking-sticks or crutches. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] interesting how information about caves gets out
And what it must look like to the non-caving general public. https://www.science101.com/the-majesty-of-caves-and-their-breathtaking-ecosystems/39/ Jon ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
