UT Grotto meeting - Wednesday December 3, 2008
www.utgrotto.org
The meeting is on Wednesday from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
on the University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
Mike Gross will share some photos from the July work expedition
Thanks for posting this, Gary, and, Mike, if you'd like to send those pix (and
a report) my way for the TEXAS CAVER, that would be great.
There hasn't been any articles about the Snowy River formation and Fort Stanton
cave since I've been the editor and not sure when the last one was.
It
Just another couple of anecdotes on good experiences (albeit back in the 70s).
As I said earlier, for several years Mike Connolly and I would take newbies to
Mexico over the Xmas holidays. Often we camped at Nacimiento del Rio Mante or,
on occasions, near some houses near the caves we were
and of course the illegal drug activities and the profits of the
groups that benefit could be cut to zero by simply making marijuana
and meth legal. voila, just like prohibition - the same number would
use the product, however no crimes or vast criminal organizations
would flourish.
way too
I agree. Maybe we'll see changes soon with the new admin. Want to help stop
the war on drugs?
Consider supporting: www.mpp.org http://www.mpp.org/ and
http://www.drugpolicy.org/homepage.cfm
-Original Message-
From: Nancy Weaver [mailto:nan...@io.com]
Sent:
texascavers Digest 2 Dec 2008 20:03:52 - Issue 655
Topics (messages 9523 through 9535):
Re: Safety in Mexico
9523 by: Louise Power
9526 by: Albach
9533 by: Louise Power
Re: new Speleo Digest series editor
9524 by: Minton, Mark
9525 by: Minton, Mark
All,
I've been mulling over the project this month and was just curious as to the
interest level, mainly, with finals going on UT, A M, and some of the other
colleges.
If enough folks are interested, we will be digging out/down the passageway to
allow better air flow and the more
P.S. - I forgot to mention that we would be digging in the AM and do a thru
trip in the afternoon.
Thanks,
Mark
From: mark.al...@l-3com.com [mailto:mark.al...@l-3com.com]
Sent: Tue 12/2/2008 2:20 PM
To: Cave Texas
Cc: texascav...@yahoo.com;
Greetings, cavers!
You are receiving this email because you have participated in a past expedition
to Laguna de Sanchez, or have expressed an interest in upcoming trips. I am
also cc'ing this message to CaveTex in case there is anyone else out there
interested.
The next Project trip will be
Were these 2 guys cavers?
http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/612969.html
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Sounds more like a trench collapse than a cave collapse, David.
Thanks,
Mark
From Foxnews.com:
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. - A Tennessee man has died after a cave collapsed in western
Kentucky while he was digging for Native American artifacts.
Christian County Coroner Dorris Lamb says
Eternally a caver now!
What a grim exit strategy!
-WaV
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:22 PM, David dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:
Were these 2 guys cavers?
http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/612969.html
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[Texascavers] Tennessee cave fatalityHate to sound callous but pot holing
(digging for native American artifacts) is popular in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Those people really tear things up and leave their trash - lots. Lesson learned
to late!
Best to all,
Bill Walden
- Original Message
To say nothing of illegal on public lands and, in many states, on private
lands. And immoral in general. They are stealing the heritage of first
Americans for their own profits.
From: wdwalden@windstream.netTo: mark.al...@l-3com.com; dlocklea...@gmail.com;
texascavers@texascavers.comDate:
No, they were not cavers, but trespassers, pothunters and looters. More later.
Preston in western KY
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- Original Message -
From: Don Cooper
To: David
Cc: Texascavers Mailing List
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:03 PM
forwarded from: Johanna Kovarik jkova...@fs.fed.us
Hey Everyone;
Forwardthis to anyone you think might be interested - I'm advertising for
2Geocorps interns to come up to the Tongass for 12 weeks during thesummer of
2009 (May - August) and help with reorganizing our cave data- basically, we
texascavers Digest 2 Dec 2008 22:51:49 - Issue 656
Topics (messages 9536 through 9546):
Re: Tennessee cave fatality
9536 by: Don Cooper
9539 by: Bill Walden
9541 by: Louise Power
9544 by: Preston Forsythe
book idea
9537 by: David
9543 by:
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 54.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 35.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 65.
Friday
Mostly
The TN pothunter died in Buzzard Cave, on the West Fork of the Red River, in
Christian Co., KY. This cave is north of the very famous Glover Cave. Many
caves in this area have been pothunted severely in the past and several looters
have actually been caught and arrested while in the illegal act
According to this story today, computer geeks have broken a record
for desktop computer speed at 5 1/2 gigahertz:
http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=13624
They used the new Intel motherboard ( X58 ) and the new Intel
chip - the i7.
The base model of the X58 with the i7 is currently available
Try 'Naked DSL' from ATT. I'm paying only $34 a month for access that
usually tests downloading at about 2.5Mb/sec and uploads at 410 Kb/sec (
http://www.speedtest.net).
I think Naked DSL is also available at about 800 Kb/sec for $18/ month (But
then you'd probably not *even* be able to watch
Here is a book idea for a caver looking to for ideas on writing a book.
Rizzoli Publications out of New York thru their Universe line of books
is publishing books on a particular topic about the 1001 things you
must do at it before you die.
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:06:00 -0600 David dlocklea...@gmail.com writes:
Here is a book idea for a caver looking to for ideas on writing a
book.
snip
1000 Caves I must explore before I die
Or how about
1001 Cave critters I must see before I die
I like,
1001 Speleothems I must see
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