[Texascavers] UT Grotto meeting – August 6, 2008

2008-08-05 Thread garyfranklin2
UT Grotto meeting – August 6, 2008 www.utgrotto.org The meeting is on Wednesday from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. on the University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html We have two presentations for our upcoming meeting. Devra Heyer will be shari

[Texascavers] Drowning in NSS owned sinkhole and underwater cave

2008-08-05 Thread Lee H. Skinner
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[Texascavers] Remarkable Lech Self-Rescue

2008-08-05 Thread CaverArch
>From Mocaves Roger Moore <> Dave, I presume you got this through the BMG list. Feel free to forward it onto the MOLES. I don't have an up to date list of emails.Matt Since the caving rumor mill can be quite efficient, I thought I would goahead and let you here

[Texascavers] here ye here ye

2008-08-05 Thread wesley s
To all those interested. There will be a party in honor of Sandi Calhoun's birthday this sat at 4811 Duval st. Austin, Tx starting at 8pm. Bring beer food or just yourselves and have a good time. We may watch a movie or just stay up drinking and singing. See ya there, wes~

[Texascavers] NSS Convention - bus options

2008-08-05 Thread David
You can get to the NSS Convention this weekend by bus. One option is to take "El Expreso" http://www.elexpreso.net/ I believe the bus goes straight from downtown Houston to the town where the convention is being held. I was told it only has 2 scheduled brief stops in Gulfport, Miss

[Texascavers] TSA Membership Status.

2008-08-05 Thread mark . alman
All, It's that time again to check your TSA membership status prior to the next issue of the TEXAS CAVER being sent out later this month. The next issue is chock full of trip reports, great photos, and a plethora of info on the upcoming TCR and ICS 2009. More importantly, you can check to see w

[ot_caving] 125,000 endangered gorillas found

2008-08-05 Thread quinta
'Astonishing' gorilla find reported Hopes for the survival of a critically endangered primate have been boosted after the discovery of 125,000 Western lowland gorillas living in a swamp in the Republic of Congo. "It's pretty astonishing," Hugo Rainey, one of the researchers who conducted the sur

Re: [Texascavers] a caving video - Mexico related

2008-08-05 Thread Nico Escamilla
Mountain bikers doing some caving carrying sleeping pads over their makeshift backpacks (for buoyancy??) the quality of the video is bad to say the least. I want my 10 minutes back On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:29 AM, David wrote: > Here is a YouTube video of a cave I hope to visit > someday. > >

[Texascavers] a caving video - Mexico related

2008-08-05 Thread David
Here is a YouTube video of a cave I hope to visit someday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUb0mWOfNvg&feature=related I believe they only show the twilight zone of the upstream entrance. I have been swimming near the downstream entrance and also thru part of the cave next to it - Chonta. H

RE: [Texascavers] ICS and caves

2008-08-05 Thread mark . alman
Thanks, Charles! I'll put you down and keep you updated. Mark -Original Message- From: Charles Goldsmith [mailto:wo...@justfamily.org] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 7:45 PM To: Alman, Mark @ IRP Subject: Re: [Texascavers] ICS and caves Mark, I'm interesting in helping, sign me up.