Every day for the last month it has been raining. I love it! But that means
the water is up in what few caves we have to offer, so you might as well
accept it and plan to get wet!
As you know, Alan Cressler and company plan a pre-convention camp in
Marianna. If you go I highly recommend
I'll have copies of the new AMCS Activities Newsletter at the grotto
meeting tonight for $14 softbound, $24 hardbound. Also, we've just
reprinted AMCS Bulletin 10, Caves of the Golondrinas Area, using a new
printer that has substantially reduced the cost of printing. So the
new edition,
The New York Times published an interview
today with
Mr. Zana Qasim Haider
He indicated he is the only caver in Iraq. He says there
are 1,000 caves in the Kurdish region. He also indicated
in the article that some of the bigger ones were near the
tourist areas of Kurdish region.
The
Two enormous bats.? Two enormous SPECIES or two ancient, cycolpean
individuals I'm crossing my fingers for the latter.
About the caves: this doesn't surprise me- I have long been under the
impression that anywhere the US goes to war, the ground is riddled with
caves (Afghanistan, Iraq,
David Locklear posted:
Mr. Zana Qasim Haider
He indicated he is the only caver in Iraq.
Does that mean he does all of his caving solo? Who would rescue him in
the event of an acident? ;-)
Mark Minton
On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Minton, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote:
David Locklear posted:
Mr. Zana Qasim Haider
He indicated he is the only caver in Iraq.
Does that mean he does all of his caving solo? Who would rescue him in
the event of an acident? ;-)
We could send in the
I believe Tom Brown is in Iraq. I wonder if he ever gets up to that area.
Mike Burrell
On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Minton, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote:
David Locklear posted:
Mr. Zana Qasim Haider
He indicated he is the only caver in Iraq.
Does that mean he does all of his
I wonder if he has access to lots of instant cave? Why go to the trouble of finding new caves - just make them with passages big enough to drive a truck through to boot!
NigelDo not meddle in the affairs of dragons because you are crunchy and taste good with Dinosaur BBQ barbecue sauce.
You wrote
Newly released photos ( taken in 2005 ) show Mars to have canyons that
resemble canyons on earth that have water in them.
A handful of scientist claim the universe is less than 5,000 years old.
How do they explain these water formed canyons on Mars?
Did Noah's flood cause this canyon? If
Does anyone in the Texas caving world recall a time when Cave Without a
Name was accessed by a ladder? I,ve been having a very confusing
conversation with a woman who remembers visiting here in 1995 and going
down a ladder to see the cave. I have video tapes of Eugene giving the
tour in 1993 and
My first CWAN tour was in April, 1985 with my daughter. The stairway was
there then.
I remember hearing about the cave from Mrs. Bridges at Cascade Caverns. We
drove out into the country, and kept seeing signs to the cave on the then
dirt road. The first sign said something like cave 1/2 mile.
I was there around 1976. Stairs.
Don Arburn
On Jul 16, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Butch Fralia bfra...@maverickgrotto.org
wrote:
My first CWAN tour was in April, 1985 with my daughter. The
stairway was
there then.
I remember hearing about the cave from Mrs. Bridges at Cascade
Caverns. We
Mike,
I suspect she is very confused. I've been visiting the cave for 32 years and
have never seen or heard of it accessed with a ladder. I made several trips
in 1995 and the years on either side. There is no mention anywhere in the
TSS files of a ladder being used to enter the cave. Eugene never
The cave was surveyed by Ernst Kastning in 1974-1975. The stairs were there
and are shown on that map. I'm not at home at the moment to double-check the
TSS file on the cave, and the exact date of the stairway's construction may
not be in there. However, I understand the entrance pit was widened
At 12:45 PM 7/16/2008, c...@boernenet.com wrote:
Does anyone in the Texas caving world recall a time when Cave Without a
Name was accessed by a ladder? I,ve been having a very confusing
conversation with a woman who remembers visiting here in 1995 and
going down a ladder to see the cave.
Ah, an Iranian cave book. That reminds me of one of the classic titles on the
Florida Speleological Society library: Blind White Fish in Persia, which was
really about artificial underground aqueducts called quanats, and whether these
ca 2000-year old channels had existed long enough to allow
Charlie, Just resend them? I use Barca as my e-mail program and I may be able to bounce messages without any extra formatting.
You wrote on: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:48:37 -0500
From: Charles Goldsmith e-mail: wo...@justfamily.org
Thank you Nigel, I have about the same, however, Google groups won't
I could, but it would go to the list as well, and I'm sure the users
wouldn't like thousands of additional emails flowing through, plus
sender and date would be wrong in the headers.
Not ideal for a true archive.
Thanks though
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Nigel Dyson-Hudson n...@cavesar.com
That Blind White Fish is Persia is a classic travel yarn, from back
in the days when British college students could drive to Iran through
Beirut, Damascus, and Bagdad fearing nothing but truck breakdowns. It
was first published in 1953; there are 1966 and 1990 editions and
maybe others. An
Yes, I remembered Blind White Fish as an enjoyable read at the time (when it
was already nearly 20 years old). My Major Professor at Rice, Frank Hole, was
very familiar with the book and if I remember correctly, he met the students
while he was doing archeological field work in Iran.
Roger
The World Court is at it again.
They now want the U.S. to stop executing foreigners.
It is my opinion, that some of the country's that oppose
capital punishment are very hypocritical.
For example, in latin america, many of the governments
( especially those with religious influences ) are
I believe we need to find the bad people in the world and
do everything we possibly can to prevent them from hurting
people and we need to do it in a cost effective manner.
There's no more cost-effective method than a bullet. And the Supreme
Court has just validated that
If it weren't for the gasoline and travel time, a more cost effective means
would be to bind them tightly and throw them into heavily shark infested
waters, thereby eliminating the need to dispose of the body.
Fritz
From: Alex Sproul
That publication from Berlin is not really a survey of the caves of
Iraq, but just an expedition report on a Kurdish-German caving project
in part of the Kurdish area in northeastern Iraq in 2007 (the only
part of the country where it might be sensible to go caving these
days). It is
I can't recall the name of the book, (but I recommended it to Larue,) on travel
in Iranian Kurdistan with some stuff on caves there I think in the Zagros
Mtns.. lots of caves, some (I seem to recall) with Neanderthal sites. (Also
early agricultural/emmer wheat sites).
T
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