David
No, the Colombia (this how it is spelled correctly) does not continue
straight to
hwy85 towards Monterrey, you'd have to follow the Carretera Rivereña for
about
50 kms. east to reach the infamous Carretera Nacional (85) or you can also
go west
after you cross the bridge and take your first
You forgot to add: and pay the fine for returning it after it expired,
otherwise you cant get another
one.. They have a computer network now and all of the border crossings are
linked. They wont let you get another permit at a different crossing
Nico
On 7/5/07, Katherine Arens
Don,
Joe and I were in Alaska last summer, and did not see anything for
the Denali area, but were able to get into some crevases at
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. At this park you can hire a guide
to go glacier hiking and ice climbing. There are two outfitters who
do these trips.
John, maybe we could combine our collection of old gear and make this
museum thing work. Pretty soon, the newcomers would pay to see one of
those old carbide lights that you load with rocks and add water to
burn. Tying prussic knots will soon be a lost art. And a descender that
looks like a
RD Milhollin said:
I was wondering what you do with your old gear?
Whatever is still usable by someone (cheap, broke, student) might well be
donated to the TCMA auctions.
And Miguel Blanco added
You may even get to sell something...
I agree. I have seen some amazingly used
David Locklear said:
The best source of map information I had was the cavers publication on the Caves of
the Inter-American Highway, however, I had already been caving in Mexico about a
dozen times, before I found a copy of it.[ I think copies of that are much more easy
to obtain
David Locklear said:
I assume size has something to do with the watts and brightness.
So are you saying size does matter? :-)
I am guessing it would light up a small portion of the Sarawak Chamber.
Any flashlight would light up a _small_ portion of any chamber. What we
Underground caverns cause trouble in Auburn construction
7/3/2007 5:50 PM
By: Bill Carey
Auburn City Hall, New York. The building is cooled and heated using a
geothermal system that taps into underground water, which maintains a constant
temperature year round.
Seeing the success of that
Don Cooper said:
I take it that the lithium D cells that Stone made were not 1.5 volt?
Bill had the lamps made, not the batteries, which were 3-volt
lithium/sulfur dioxide type. (There are several different lithium battery
chemistries. Some, like the ones I mentioned, are
Well, even though a syntactical error was made - the question appears to
have gotten through.
(Thanks Mark!)
Of course I ment D-Cell *lights* and not D-Cells.
The first commercaially available lithium batteries - I seem to remember -
were 3.1 volt rather than the 1.5 volt lithiums that are now
I recently received word from Jim Coke of the Quintana Roo Speleological
Survey that Sistema Ox Bel Ha has been connected to Sistema Yax Chen East.
That puts Ox Bel Ha back in the lead as longest cave in Mexico and longest
underwater cave in the world at 164457 m. It has 128 entrances!
This brings a nice slogan to promote Mexico in other places
Mexico, Cave Capital of the World
haha
On 7/5/07, Minton, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote:
I recently received word from Jim Coke of the Quintana Roo
Speleological Survey that Sistema Ox Bel Ha has been connected to Sistema
Yax
Or Mexico, Caving Paradise.
Bill
Nico Escamilla pitboun...@gmail.com wrote:
This brings a nice slogan to promote Mexico in other places
Mexico, Cave Capital of the World
haha
On 7/5/07, Minton, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote:
I recently received word from Jim Coke of the
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Caveats: NONE
In 1999 I drove the Dalton highway to Deadhorse, Alaska and the equivalent
gravel road to the arctic in Canada. I was in a 2WD Ford Explorer and I had
5 flat tires. I carried 4 spares and two 5 gallon Gerry cans of gas with me.
The roads are rough on
So if someone was thinking of doing Alaska on a m/cycle you
wouldn't recommend it?
Cheers,
Stefan
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To: Minton, Mark; texascavers@texascavers.com
Back in the early 90's I did a bicycle trip in Alaska (4 weeks) with Wayne B.
We took the ferry up to Haines, AK and then pedaled up through the Yukon and
crossed into AK at Beaver Creek. There was some road construction there and
they did have to take us a couple of miles in a truck for the
Hazel Barton's message on the NSS Cavechat
All,
I have a good friend who needs some information on Comanche Cave, on the
Comanche Ranch in Hunt Texas. If anyone knows anything about these caves,
could you please contact me directly.
Many thanks,
Hazel
Can y'all help with this?
Nico
typing
David Ochel said:
I hear there is good caving in Malaysia. Does anybody have any contacts there?
Many years ago I corresponded with a British? caver named Liz Price who I
believe was in that area. The email address I had was lizpr...@hotmail.com.
That was back at the turn of the
Evelynn Mitchell said:
It is a little more challenging to get into Wrangell -St. Elias since you have
to rent a vehicle that is allowed to drive on gravel roads,
That's a funny thing about renting vehicles in AK. When I was up there
back in the '90s with Nancy Weaver, we rented a
Mike,
You are correct about the condition of the Alaska roads and the
rental policy. In fact, when there are wash outs, the road department
fills them in with gravel, so it is often hard to avoid. When we took
our trip last summer, we planned to drive up the Dalton Highway, 400
miles of a
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