[Texascavers] TSA - CBSP November Project Weekend

[Will Quast via Texascavers]

Remember this weekend, Nov 12, is the 2nd TSA-CBSP Project Weekend of the
2016-2017 season. The weather should be good for temperature, but there has
been rain this week and there is a chance of rain on both Saturday and
Sunday mornings, so plan accordingly. We will be camping at Caver Camp
unless unless the road is too muddy. Join the mailing list (see website)
for this project for last minute updates if are you are planning on coming.

Please completely read the project website
http://www.cavetexas.org/projects/cbsp.html .

Also, this project weekend will be the last project weekend for the season
that will not require prior reservation. We have decided that we will be
able to better handle our responsibilities with the park and productivity
if we know who intends to attend and limit the group size to 20 people. I
do not expect this to effect any of the regular attendees and will help
with the quality of learning for first timers. Keep an eye out for an email
and updates to the website on how this will be handled.

Will Quast
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Re: [Texascavers] Geoff Robertson's adventure

[Logan McNatt via Texascavers]

  
  
Thanks Bill.

On 11/7/2016 10:18 PM, Mixon Bill via
  Texascavers wrote:


  A few days ago Mark Minton wrote about Geoff Robertson's getting lost in the Sierra de El Abra. The AMCS has a copy of the Austin American Statesman's article (easily discovered at http://www.mexicancaves.org/library/archives.html), and I have scanned it and attached below. It was on pages A-1 and A-10 on December 6, 1980. -- Mixon

 
  
  
  
  

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Re: [Texascavers] sort of related to cavepearls

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I wonder if those aren’t actually giant hail. I’ve seen hail accumulations in 
New Mexico so thick they look like snow, which is pretty weird when it happens 
in the summer. The individual hail balls were much smaller in my case, like 
maybe half an inch or less, but I know hail has been reported as large as 
basketballs (ouch!).

 

Mark Minton

mmin...@caver.net

 

From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of 
David via Texascavers
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 2:24 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: ***SPAM*** [Texascavers] sort of related to cavepearls

 

Giant snowballs, hundreds of them.

 

 
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/6A8E/production/_92287272_snowballs.jpg

 

 
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/nintchdbpict000280397093.jpg?w=960
 

 =all

 

 
http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Giant-snowballs-Siberia.png

 

It is most interesting that they are so uniform and similar in color, and 
similar in size and big.

 

So is this a weather phenomenon, or a geological phenomenon, or a hydrology 
thing ?

 

What type of scientist would be best equipped to be the expert on this ?A 
glaciologist ?

A speleologist ?

 

I vote a geochemist ?  Are there any geochemist on CaveTex ?

 

David Locklear

dlocklea...@gmail.com

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