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[PBSS] Fw: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave
- Original Message - From: Geary Schindel To: texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:40 AM Subject: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave A TAGNET post noted that there were two fatalities in Ellison's Cave. Here is the link to an article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/feb/12/2-found-dead-walker-cave/ Geary ___ PBSS mailing list p...@caver.net http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/pbss_caver.net
[Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave
A TAGNET post noted that there were two fatalities in Ellison's Cave. Here is the link to an article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/feb/12/2-found-dead-walker-cave/ Geary
RE: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave
http://www.jocosarblog.org/jocosarblog/2011/02/ga-bodies-of-two-students-fou nd-in-ellisons-cave.html a little more information maybe From: Geary Schindel [mailto:gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:40 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave A TAGNET post noted that there were two fatalities in Ellison's Cave. Here is the link to an article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/feb/12/2-found-dead-walker-cave/ Geary
RE: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave
apparently they got tangled on rope http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14019138 Semper Exploro Ryan MonjarasMaverick GrottoCowtown GrottoDFW GrottoUT GrottoBexar Grotto(832)754-5778 From: lkpa...@sbcglobal.net To: gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org; texascavers@texascavers.com List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:35:37 -0600 Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave http://www.jocosarblog.org/jocosarblog/2011/02/ga-bodies-of-two-students-found-in-ellisons-cave.html a little more information maybe From: Geary Schindel [mailto:gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:40 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave A TAGNET post noted that there were two fatalities in Ellison’s Cave. Here is the link to an article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/feb/12/2-found-dead-walker-cave/ Geary
[Texascavers] Ellison's accident
If the 125-foot figure in one of those articles is correct, that would be Warm Up Pit, not 510-foot Fantastic Pit. Good thing for the recovery crew, if true. I don't recall any waterfall in Warm Up Pit, but it may depend on the weather. -- Mixon A fearless man cannot be brave. You may reply to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
RE: [Texascavers] Ellison's accident
I've done Fantastic Pit a few times, and it is a beautiful pit. One of the times we did it, we did not have enough rope and had a knot about 7m off the floor. I repelled too far on to the knot before attaching gear to go over, and fought the thing for what seemed like forever, hanging so close to the ground that I kept thinking I should just body repel down. Of course, the rack would still be on the knot so it was a stupid thought, and I did not really consider doing that. Gear and perseverance helped me out of the jam -- and not for the first time. Crossing knots has never been one of my favorites. I am, of course, saddened to hear of the accident and deaths. I have wondered if we were always just -- careful or lucky? Both, I think. Linda -Original Message- From: Mixon Bill [mailto:bmixon...@austin.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:40 AM To: Cavers Texas Subject: [Texascavers] Ellison's accident If the 125-foot figure in one of those articles is correct, that would be Warm Up Pit, not 510-foot Fantastic Pit. Good thing for the recovery crew, if true. I don't recall any waterfall in Warm Up Pit, but it may depend on the weather. -- Mixon A fearless man cannot be brave. You may reply to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] underground fiction quiz
While looking for something in 1979 issues of the Windy City Speleonews, which I edited exactly 100 issues of from 1965 through 1980, I ran into a couple of more or less cave-related things I wrote back then that might be interesting. The first is this quiz. Match the following underground things with the authors of the fiction in which they appeared. Answers in a day or so. Don't broadcast your answers and spoil it for others.--Mixon 1. an airship 2. albino penguins 3. a ballhog 4. a balrog 5. the giants and titans 6. a metal library 7. Morlocks 8. Tatou 9. the White Rabbit a. Victor Appleton b. Norbert Casteret c. Erich von Daniken d. Dante Alighieri e. C. L. Dodgson f. Harvard Lampoon g. H. P. Lovecraft h. J. R. R. Tolkien i. H. G. Wells A fearless man cannot be brave. You may reply to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
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[Texascavers] Bretz's flood
The cave connection of this second item from the Windy City Speleonews is just J Harlen Bretz. Yes, no period after the J, which was his full name. I had lunch with him when he was 94 at his house, Boulderstrewn, in Homewood, Illinois. I happened to drive by, on the way to the NSS convention in Bellingham, Washington, a few years ago, the Dry Falls three miles wide, where the state of Washington has a picnic area and displays. One non-technical source on the falls is http://www.gonorthwest.com/Washington/northeast/Dry_Falls.htm , although links onward from that page are broken. -- Mixon Cavers know J Harlen Bretz mainly as the author of Caves of Missouri and coauthor of Caves of Illinois, which was published when he was 78 years old. To speleologists, he is best known for his famous 1942 Journal of Geology paper on vadose and phreatic features of caves. But his geological studies were by no means restricted to caves, and he is probably best known for (and is most proud of) of series of papers published between 1923 and 1932 in which he described the very peculiar geology of a large area in eastern Washington that he correctly attributed to a catastrophic flood. This theory was considered outrageous at the time, partly, at least, because it was a departure from the only recently ascendent geological dogma of uniformitarianism. But more recent research has fully proved him right. A lake, called Lake Missoula, was created in western Montana by a dam of glacier ice in northern Idaho. The lake contained some four hundred cubic miles of water that were released suddenly when melting caused the dam to fail. The resulting flood, called the Spokane Flood after the city presently near the upstream end, scoured nearly three thousand square miles down to bedrock and created huge canyons and cataracts, one three miles wide. It deposited gravel bars, some of which contain boulders several feet in diameter, a hundred feet high and a mile long, topped with giant current ripple-marks ten feet high. The water ponded behind the Wallula Gap, through which it poured a thousand feet deep. The peak flow from Lake Missoula, attested to by current ripples fifty feet high, has been calculated at twenty million cubic meters per second. (This is fifteen _cubic miles_ per hour. For comparison purposes, it is one hundred fifty times the mean flow of the Amazon River and ten or twenty times the total average flow of fresh water into the oceans of the world.) In a few days, it was all over. (Actually, there were a good number of such floods, as the ice dam reestablished itself. Note added 2011.) A fearless man cannot be brave. You may reply to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
