Hey, it was only like that for a day!
Then the rain returned & washed all the nasty snow away.
Now it's clear and beautiful again.
However, it's not perfect. You may recall how late the daylight lasted in the
summer. Well, this is the time of year we pay for that. It gets dark by 4:30
now. Com
Any of you in the Western States (or elsewhere) who are interested in the
BLM/Forest Service Abandoned Mine Lands program, see the following site:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/Abandoned_Mine_Lands.html
The program only covers the 11 western states.
My agency, the Railroad Commission, has an abandoned mine section that plugs
old mine shafts with federal dollars, so you can blame them. But don't get
any wrong ideas...we don't regulate railroads.
Go figure.
The word is that most or all of the known entrances to old min
David,
Most of the places you mention do not allow enough height for the chutes
to open and thus avoiding death.
Fritz
-Original Message-
From: David Locklear [mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:48 AM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Not caving -
Mark Minton wrote:
>> Bill Steele once brought a triathlete to Honey Creek on a pretty hard trip.
>> The poor guy had never been caving before, and he never knew what hit him.
>> We would play with him, getting ahead and then waiting. When he showed up
>> huffing and puffing Bill would say,
How many caves in the world could that bird-guy fly thru?
And during the cave flight, wouldn't he be called a bat-guy?
I bet there are some window like formations in the Sierra Madres
that he could "needle" thru? Isn't there one near Monclova?
La Ventana or something like that?
I know there
Bahamas Sinkhole Yields Fossil Treasure Trove
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
Dec. 3, 2007 -- Divers exploring a water-filled sinkhole in the Bahama
Islands recently recovered one of the world's largest and most pristinely
preserved collections of animal and plant _fossils_
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