Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
I would like to point out that ASS does take caving seriously. Buidness is buidness. However, we enjoy cutting loose at the end of long days and our trip reports are often written for entertainment purposes rather than describing caving details. If you are a dried up caving curmudgeon with no sense of humor, then please don't read e-mails entitled Tales from the ASS. I suppose that is too serious of a title after all. I hope that our tales of youthful bliss, about people who still enjoy life, may one day tear down the compounded guano walls built up by years of heads being stuck in holes and we can all party together. 'Til then, I suppose, you do you and we'll do us. Zach On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:41 AM, scott grimes scottgrime...@gmail.comwrote: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
RE: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
Keep posting the reports as you have been doing, Zach! The oldsters out there don't realize (or want to admit) that they won't be around forever and we all need to do whatever we can to recruit/retain new blood in the Texas caving community. That's what I have been doing when I volunteer to give 6 to 10 cave talks a year (sometimes travelling several hours to do so), take youth on caving trips multiple times a years, and reach out to younger cavers, like y'all, in getting new projects up and running. The A.S.S. grotto, the UT grotto, the GHG, and other young folks out there were ESSENTIAL in getting Longhorn dug out and ready for ICS. Trips to this cave during ICS would have been impossible without the assistance of you youngsters. Plainly said, Longhorn would not have been an option. I love y'all's humor, energy, and participation, either caving or here on CaveTex. Don't change and we need more like you! Mark From: Zach Broussard [mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9:48 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS I would like to point out that ASS does take caving seriously. Buidness is buidness. However, we enjoy cutting loose at the end of long days and our trip reports are often written for entertainment purposes rather than describing caving details. If you are a dried up caving curmudgeon with no sense of humor, then please don't read e-mails entitled Tales from the ASS. I suppose that is too serious of a title after all. I hope that our tales of youthful bliss, about people who still enjoy life, may one day tear down the compounded guano walls built up by years of heads being stuck in holes and we can all party together. 'Til then, I suppose, you do you and we'll do us. Zach On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:41 AM, scott grimes scottgrime...@gmail.com wrote: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
I would like to point out that ASS does take caving seriously. Buidness is buidness. However, we enjoy cutting loose at the end of long days and our trip reports are often written for entertainment purposes rather than describing caving details. If you are a dried up caving curmudgeon with no sense of humor, then please don't read e-mails entitled Tales from the ASS. I suppose that is too serious of a title after all. I hope that our tales of youthful bliss, about people who still enjoy life, may one day tear down the compounded guano walls built up by years of heads being stuck in holes and we can all party together. 'Til then, I suppose, you do you and we'll do us. Zach On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:41 AM, scott grimes scottgrime...@gmail.comwrote: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
RE: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
Keep posting the reports as you have been doing, Zach! The oldsters out there don't realize (or want to admit) that they won't be around forever and we all need to do whatever we can to recruit/retain new blood in the Texas caving community. That's what I have been doing when I volunteer to give 6 to 10 cave talks a year (sometimes travelling several hours to do so), take youth on caving trips multiple times a years, and reach out to younger cavers, like y'all, in getting new projects up and running. The A.S.S. grotto, the UT grotto, the GHG, and other young folks out there were ESSENTIAL in getting Longhorn dug out and ready for ICS. Trips to this cave during ICS would have been impossible without the assistance of you youngsters. Plainly said, Longhorn would not have been an option. I love y'all's humor, energy, and participation, either caving or here on CaveTex. Don't change and we need more like you! Mark From: Zach Broussard [mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9:48 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS I would like to point out that ASS does take caving seriously. Buidness is buidness. However, we enjoy cutting loose at the end of long days and our trip reports are often written for entertainment purposes rather than describing caving details. If you are a dried up caving curmudgeon with no sense of humor, then please don't read e-mails entitled Tales from the ASS. I suppose that is too serious of a title after all. I hope that our tales of youthful bliss, about people who still enjoy life, may one day tear down the compounded guano walls built up by years of heads being stuck in holes and we can all party together. 'Til then, I suppose, you do you and we'll do us. Zach On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:41 AM, scott grimes scottgrime...@gmail.com wrote: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
I would like to point out that ASS does take caving seriously. Buidness is buidness. However, we enjoy cutting loose at the end of long days and our trip reports are often written for entertainment purposes rather than describing caving details. If you are a dried up caving curmudgeon with no sense of humor, then please don't read e-mails entitled Tales from the ASS. I suppose that is too serious of a title after all. I hope that our tales of youthful bliss, about people who still enjoy life, may one day tear down the compounded guano walls built up by years of heads being stuck in holes and we can all party together. 'Til then, I suppose, you do you and we'll do us. Zach On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:41 AM, scott grimes scottgrime...@gmail.comwrote: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
RE: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
Keep posting the reports as you have been doing, Zach! The oldsters out there don't realize (or want to admit) that they won't be around forever and we all need to do whatever we can to recruit/retain new blood in the Texas caving community. That's what I have been doing when I volunteer to give 6 to 10 cave talks a year (sometimes travelling several hours to do so), take youth on caving trips multiple times a years, and reach out to younger cavers, like y'all, in getting new projects up and running. The A.S.S. grotto, the UT grotto, the GHG, and other young folks out there were ESSENTIAL in getting Longhorn dug out and ready for ICS. Trips to this cave during ICS would have been impossible without the assistance of you youngsters. Plainly said, Longhorn would not have been an option. I love y'all's humor, energy, and participation, either caving or here on CaveTex. Don't change and we need more like you! Mark From: Zach Broussard [mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9:48 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS I would like to point out that ASS does take caving seriously. Buidness is buidness. However, we enjoy cutting loose at the end of long days and our trip reports are often written for entertainment purposes rather than describing caving details. If you are a dried up caving curmudgeon with no sense of humor, then please don't read e-mails entitled Tales from the ASS. I suppose that is too serious of a title after all. I hope that our tales of youthful bliss, about people who still enjoy life, may one day tear down the compounded guano walls built up by years of heads being stuck in holes and we can all party together. 'Til then, I suppose, you do you and we'll do us. Zach On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:41 AM, scott grimes scottgrime...@gmail.com wrote: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.comwrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his.
Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
milk, rice and cinammon drink sounds like agua de horchata.. its awesome when well made, and pretty much sucks when its not.. like every other mexican food/drink . We found a greasy hole in the wall place mexican restaurant that served puffy tacos and a delicious unpronounceable milk/rice/cinnamon drink, stuffed ourselves, then returned home (with a brief detour through san marcos for some reason that was never entirely made clear to me). Fie on those who couldnt make it- but be sure to come to thursdays meeting where will discuss plans for this weekends (14th-16th) trip to TCR the biggest baddest caver party around, a trip you will totes not want to miss. - Scotty my-shower-is-now-black-with-mud G
RE: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
Cummon, they're Aggies ;-) From: Scott Boyd [scottd...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 October 2011 21:54 To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.commailto:texasassca...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his. -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. - 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] Tales from the ASS
And theyre going underground unlike David... yes, I typed theyre with no apostrophe on purpose On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Stefan Creaser stefan.crea...@arm.comwrote: Cummon, they're Aggies ;-) From: Scott Boyd [scottd...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 October 2011 21:54 To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.com mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his. -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. - 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] Tales from the ASS
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.comwrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his.
Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
milk, rice and cinammon drink sounds like agua de horchata.. its awesome when well made, and pretty much sucks when its not.. like every other mexican food/drink . We found a greasy hole in the wall place mexican restaurant that served puffy tacos and a delicious unpronounceable milk/rice/cinnamon drink, stuffed ourselves, then returned home (with a brief detour through san marcos for some reason that was never entirely made clear to me). Fie on those who couldnt make it- but be sure to come to thursdays meeting where will discuss plans for this weekends (14th-16th) trip to TCR the biggest baddest caver party around, a trip you will totes not want to miss. - Scotty my-shower-is-now-black-with-mud G
RE: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
Cummon, they're Aggies ;-) From: Scott Boyd [scottd...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 October 2011 21:54 To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.commailto:texasassca...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his. -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. - 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] Tales from the ASS
And theyre going underground unlike David... yes, I typed theyre with no apostrophe on purpose On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Stefan Creaser stefan.crea...@arm.comwrote: Cummon, they're Aggies ;-) From: Scott Boyd [scottd...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 October 2011 21:54 To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.com mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his. -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. - 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] Tales from the ASS
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.comwrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his.
Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
milk, rice and cinammon drink sounds like agua de horchata.. its awesome when well made, and pretty much sucks when its not.. like every other mexican food/drink . We found a greasy hole in the wall place mexican restaurant that served puffy tacos and a delicious unpronounceable milk/rice/cinnamon drink, stuffed ourselves, then returned home (with a brief detour through san marcos for some reason that was never entirely made clear to me). Fie on those who couldnt make it- but be sure to come to thursdays meeting where will discuss plans for this weekends (14th-16th) trip to TCR the biggest baddest caver party around, a trip you will totes not want to miss. - Scotty my-shower-is-now-black-with-mud G
RE: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS
Cummon, they're Aggies ;-) From: Scott Boyd [scottd...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 October 2011 21:54 To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.commailto:texasassca...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his. -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. - 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] Tales from the ASS
And theyre going underground unlike David... yes, I typed theyre with no apostrophe on purpose On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Stefan Creaser stefan.crea...@arm.comwrote: Cummon, they're Aggies ;-) From: Scott Boyd [scottd...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 October 2011 21:54 To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS U have y'all ever heard of cell phones?? On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Zach Broussard texasassca...@gmail.com mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy fellow cavers, snip-snip I blame the lack of CB use, and motion for ass funds to be allocated towards the purchase of a communal cb- or for bawlz to fix his. -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. - 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] Tales from the ASS
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fie it is definitely true that punctuation, capitalization, etc are essentially useless when emailing or using social media for younger folks. it just slows things down- had i known that my report was going to be reposted here i may have cleaned it up a bit and posted more about the caving :p cheers! scotty grimes
re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS and a Plea
Zach, Thanks no so much for getting off your ASS and submitting this amusing and unASSuming trip report. You are an ASSet to the Texas caving community. Your entertaining article went a long way to ASSuage the lack of trip reports here of any ASSorted variety. If only other caving ASSociates felt willing to ASSemble their recollections and post them here and send them to The TEXAS CAVER for ASSimilation into the next issue. The lack of submittals is ASSinine, in my humble opinion, and I ASSert that cavers must not feel that The TEXAS CAVER is all that important, I ASSume. My ASSessment is based on ZERO submissions for the next issue and I ASSay that the next issue will be very sparse, unless I receive an ASSist. So this next month, I ASSign to all of you the task of a writing ASSignment for the TC. I hate to be so ASSertive, but I would like all of y'all's ASSurances that you will ASSault my email with trip reports. Enough of this begging. I better get off my ASS and get back to work, or my boss will make sure I disappear like the ancient ASSyrians! (Had enough?!) 8^) Mark From: Zach Broussard [mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:28 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS Howdy Cavers, I thought some of you might be interested in what ASS is up to from time to time. I will post future ASS trip reports on cavetex. If anything, we shall give you an interesting perspective of caving, from college student eyes. As a reminder, if anybody is willing to give a presentation at one of our meetings (7:30pm Thursdays on AM campus) please contact me at zachrbrouss...@gmail.com. This past Sunday we enjoyed a day trip to Robber Baron in San Antonio. Upon arriving in the BestBuy parking lot in College Station (our meeting spot) at 7:30am, we found some serotonin depleted ravers and a homeless guy sleeping in the parking lot, both came along for the trip. Don't worry, these hooligans are loosely related to ASS. I realized that I had forgotten to send you ASSes a reminder e-mail with regards to meeting time and place. So at 7:45am I sent a reminder email with regards to meeting time and place. This may not have actually reached your ASS eyes (not sure if it sent?). Anyways, we gave stragglers a good 5 minutes to make it before heading out, fall behind get left behind. After arriving at the park I immediately began cracking the whip and putting ASSes to work. After an eternity of back-breaking hard work...err, excuse me, more like an hour of half-ASSed work, there was some rebellious coup of sorts. The powers that be were overthrown and the people demanded cave. However, we did manage to get a fair amount of work done. We re-dug out the side entrance to allow for more airflow and removed some dirt from the main entrance. We split into two groups, the first being led by yours truly and the second being led by Kyle Leonard, our faithful vice-president. Kyle's group entered first and after a few minutes my group followed suit. If you've never been to Robber Baron, let me explain it for you... it's a cluster !@% labyrinth of sorts. Within a few minutes of being in the cave my team was entirely lost. A few times, we ran into, or at least could hear or see the light from Kyle's group. After a few tries of looking at the map and pretending like we knew where we were, we gave up and submitted to the will of Oztotl. I broke out the punch and passed it around. Unfortunately, the fictional life releasing punch was soon trumped by an actual threat. On top of the labyrinth of passes, Robber Baron is also known for its low air quality. During stretches of hot weather, aka summer, the air quality is especially bad. Since this summer has sucked ASS, the air really sucked ASS. Two of the cavers in my group, both recovering from some deadly virus, probably the bird flu or maybe SARs, began struggling to keep their breath and feeling light headed. I tried testing the air with my lighter to no avail. This isn't really a surprise since I couldn't even get it to light in the sink hole later! We immediately began trying to make our way out of the cave. Of course, we still had no idea where we were so this took some time. Eventually, we found our way to the entrance with everyone still alive. Kyle's group eventually emerged from the darkness with reports of bad air on their trip as well. Scott Grimes, who stayed and took a nap in the entrance sink mentioned that he thought the air in the sink wasn't even that good. After administering the lighter test, it was concluded that the air in the sink was indeed low in oxygen. As the group that rode in my car waited for Joe Mitchell to come for the cave key, the other car drove to Brooke's house where supposedly delicious fajitas were awaiting their arrival. They soon returned with tales of gracious hospitality and copious amounts of
re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS and a Plea
Zach, Thanks no so much for getting off your ASS and submitting this amusing and unASSuming trip report. You are an ASSet to the Texas caving community. Your entertaining article went a long way to ASSuage the lack of trip reports here of any ASSorted variety. If only other caving ASSociates felt willing to ASSemble their recollections and post them here and send them to The TEXAS CAVER for ASSimilation into the next issue. The lack of submittals is ASSinine, in my humble opinion, and I ASSert that cavers must not feel that The TEXAS CAVER is all that important, I ASSume. My ASSessment is based on ZERO submissions for the next issue and I ASSay that the next issue will be very sparse, unless I receive an ASSist. So this next month, I ASSign to all of you the task of a writing ASSignment for the TC. I hate to be so ASSertive, but I would like all of y'all's ASSurances that you will ASSault my email with trip reports. Enough of this begging. I better get off my ASS and get back to work, or my boss will make sure I disappear like the ancient ASSyrians! (Had enough?!) 8^) Mark From: Zach Broussard [mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:28 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS Howdy Cavers, I thought some of you might be interested in what ASS is up to from time to time. I will post future ASS trip reports on cavetex. If anything, we shall give you an interesting perspective of caving, from college student eyes. As a reminder, if anybody is willing to give a presentation at one of our meetings (7:30pm Thursdays on AM campus) please contact me at zachrbrouss...@gmail.com. This past Sunday we enjoyed a day trip to Robber Baron in San Antonio. Upon arriving in the BestBuy parking lot in College Station (our meeting spot) at 7:30am, we found some serotonin depleted ravers and a homeless guy sleeping in the parking lot, both came along for the trip. Don't worry, these hooligans are loosely related to ASS. I realized that I had forgotten to send you ASSes a reminder e-mail with regards to meeting time and place. So at 7:45am I sent a reminder email with regards to meeting time and place. This may not have actually reached your ASS eyes (not sure if it sent?). Anyways, we gave stragglers a good 5 minutes to make it before heading out, fall behind get left behind. After arriving at the park I immediately began cracking the whip and putting ASSes to work. After an eternity of back-breaking hard work...err, excuse me, more like an hour of half-ASSed work, there was some rebellious coup of sorts. The powers that be were overthrown and the people demanded cave. However, we did manage to get a fair amount of work done. We re-dug out the side entrance to allow for more airflow and removed some dirt from the main entrance. We split into two groups, the first being led by yours truly and the second being led by Kyle Leonard, our faithful vice-president. Kyle's group entered first and after a few minutes my group followed suit. If you've never been to Robber Baron, let me explain it for you... it's a cluster !@% labyrinth of sorts. Within a few minutes of being in the cave my team was entirely lost. A few times, we ran into, or at least could hear or see the light from Kyle's group. After a few tries of looking at the map and pretending like we knew where we were, we gave up and submitted to the will of Oztotl. I broke out the punch and passed it around. Unfortunately, the fictional life releasing punch was soon trumped by an actual threat. On top of the labyrinth of passes, Robber Baron is also known for its low air quality. During stretches of hot weather, aka summer, the air quality is especially bad. Since this summer has sucked ASS, the air really sucked ASS. Two of the cavers in my group, both recovering from some deadly virus, probably the bird flu or maybe SARs, began struggling to keep their breath and feeling light headed. I tried testing the air with my lighter to no avail. This isn't really a surprise since I couldn't even get it to light in the sink hole later! We immediately began trying to make our way out of the cave. Of course, we still had no idea where we were so this took some time. Eventually, we found our way to the entrance with everyone still alive. Kyle's group eventually emerged from the darkness with reports of bad air on their trip as well. Scott Grimes, who stayed and took a nap in the entrance sink mentioned that he thought the air in the sink wasn't even that good. After administering the lighter test, it was concluded that the air in the sink was indeed low in oxygen. As the group that rode in my car waited for Joe Mitchell to come for the cave key, the other car drove to Brooke's house where supposedly delicious fajitas were awaiting their arrival. They soon returned with tales of gracious hospitality and copious amounts of
re: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS and a Plea
Zach, Thanks no so much for getting off your ASS and submitting this amusing and unASSuming trip report. You are an ASSet to the Texas caving community. Your entertaining article went a long way to ASSuage the lack of trip reports here of any ASSorted variety. If only other caving ASSociates felt willing to ASSemble their recollections and post them here and send them to The TEXAS CAVER for ASSimilation into the next issue. The lack of submittals is ASSinine, in my humble opinion, and I ASSert that cavers must not feel that The TEXAS CAVER is all that important, I ASSume. My ASSessment is based on ZERO submissions for the next issue and I ASSay that the next issue will be very sparse, unless I receive an ASSist. So this next month, I ASSign to all of you the task of a writing ASSignment for the TC. I hate to be so ASSertive, but I would like all of y'all's ASSurances that you will ASSault my email with trip reports. Enough of this begging. I better get off my ASS and get back to work, or my boss will make sure I disappear like the ancient ASSyrians! (Had enough?!) 8^) Mark From: Zach Broussard [mailto:texasassca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:28 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Tales from the ASS Howdy Cavers, I thought some of you might be interested in what ASS is up to from time to time. I will post future ASS trip reports on cavetex. If anything, we shall give you an interesting perspective of caving, from college student eyes. As a reminder, if anybody is willing to give a presentation at one of our meetings (7:30pm Thursdays on AM campus) please contact me at zachrbrouss...@gmail.com. This past Sunday we enjoyed a day trip to Robber Baron in San Antonio. Upon arriving in the BestBuy parking lot in College Station (our meeting spot) at 7:30am, we found some serotonin depleted ravers and a homeless guy sleeping in the parking lot, both came along for the trip. Don't worry, these hooligans are loosely related to ASS. I realized that I had forgotten to send you ASSes a reminder e-mail with regards to meeting time and place. So at 7:45am I sent a reminder email with regards to meeting time and place. This may not have actually reached your ASS eyes (not sure if it sent?). Anyways, we gave stragglers a good 5 minutes to make it before heading out, fall behind get left behind. After arriving at the park I immediately began cracking the whip and putting ASSes to work. After an eternity of back-breaking hard work...err, excuse me, more like an hour of half-ASSed work, there was some rebellious coup of sorts. The powers that be were overthrown and the people demanded cave. However, we did manage to get a fair amount of work done. We re-dug out the side entrance to allow for more airflow and removed some dirt from the main entrance. We split into two groups, the first being led by yours truly and the second being led by Kyle Leonard, our faithful vice-president. Kyle's group entered first and after a few minutes my group followed suit. If you've never been to Robber Baron, let me explain it for you... it's a cluster !@% labyrinth of sorts. Within a few minutes of being in the cave my team was entirely lost. A few times, we ran into, or at least could hear or see the light from Kyle's group. After a few tries of looking at the map and pretending like we knew where we were, we gave up and submitted to the will of Oztotl. I broke out the punch and passed it around. Unfortunately, the fictional life releasing punch was soon trumped by an actual threat. On top of the labyrinth of passes, Robber Baron is also known for its low air quality. During stretches of hot weather, aka summer, the air quality is especially bad. Since this summer has sucked ASS, the air really sucked ASS. Two of the cavers in my group, both recovering from some deadly virus, probably the bird flu or maybe SARs, began struggling to keep their breath and feeling light headed. I tried testing the air with my lighter to no avail. This isn't really a surprise since I couldn't even get it to light in the sink hole later! We immediately began trying to make our way out of the cave. Of course, we still had no idea where we were so this took some time. Eventually, we found our way to the entrance with everyone still alive. Kyle's group eventually emerged from the darkness with reports of bad air on their trip as well. Scott Grimes, who stayed and took a nap in the entrance sink mentioned that he thought the air in the sink wasn't even that good. After administering the lighter test, it was concluded that the air in the sink was indeed low in oxygen. As the group that rode in my car waited for Joe Mitchell to come for the cave key, the other car drove to Brooke's house where supposedly delicious fajitas were awaiting their arrival. They soon returned with tales of gracious hospitality and copious amounts of
