[Texascavers] Help Needed at CBSP Saturday, January 17th

2008-12-04 Thread Mark . Alman
Are you up for a weekend of caving, being fed lunch and dinner (For Free?!), absolutely no work, deluxe accomodations at the Conference Center, and a chance to hang out with some fun, enthusiastic, energetic kids? I thought you would be! The Girl Scouts of the Austin/SA area are once

[Texascavers] Longhorn Cavern Project, Saturday, December 6th - Cancelled!

2008-12-04 Thread Mark . Alman
The Longhorn project will be taking a holiday vacation until February, 2009. With all of the finals going on at UT, A M, etc. the response was very low and I felt that we wouldn't be able to conduct the work we need to do (and a thru trip) in a safe and productive manner. Some folks

[Texascavers] RE: Limes

2008-12-04 Thread Johnson, Russ (ATX)
I'll even bring the limes and you can apply them to your armpits or, in my case, I'll be applying them to my cervesas Saturday night Whoa there, for a moment I thought you wrote 'crevices'... Russ Llano COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL: This e-mail and attachments may contain information which is

RE: [Texascavers] Cave potential in The Solitario

2008-12-04 Thread Fritz Holt
Many others like myself who love the outdoors, echo our gratitude. Thanks, Dwight. Geezer From: Matt Turner [mailto:kat...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:29 PM To: dirt...@comcast.net Cc: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers]

[Texascavers] Punkin Cave trip report addition/correction

2008-12-04 Thread Jim Kennedy
I was writing the trip report by going through the actual survey notes, and TOTALLY forgot that we had another team in the cave! My apologies to them, I didn't intend to slight them. Please add the following team to the report, and change Team Deep Cave to Team six (instead of five). -- Jim

texascavers Digest 4 Dec 2008 21:42:03 -0000 Issue 658

2008-12-04 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 4 Dec 2008 21:42:03 - Issue 658 Topics (messages 9556 through 9564): Re: cave restoration 9556 by: Ron Ralph Longhorn Cavern Project, Saturday, December 6th - Cancelled! 9557 by: Mark.Alman.l-3com.com Help Needed at CBSP Saturday, January 17th

[Texascavers] Great LED Lantern

2008-12-04 Thread David
I have just tested the best LED Lantern that I have yet found. http://ace.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pACE3-4972951dt.jpg It is so far better than at least 10 other lanterns I have tested, that I am going to go out on a limb and call this a 2nd generation LED lantern. It appears Rayovac

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Philosophical question

2008-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:51:00 -0600 gprichm...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinkin a shit lahar... If there is a guano volcano uphill ... ... and it rains or the guano mixes with snow and the whole thing melts and comes down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahar Quote: Lahars have the consistency

Re: [Texascavers] Philosophical question

2008-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Crapmaggedon? On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 19:29:04 -0800 (PST) djhe...@swbell.net wrote: Would it be a craptastrophe? -- Lyndon Tiu - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[Texascavers] Guanological question

2008-12-04 Thread Gill Ediger
At 03:33 PM 12/4/2008, Geary Schindel wrote: So, if you had a mountain of guano fall on you, would it be a crapalanche? My immediate reaction was that we could, as a philosophical group, do better than that. Up front I will offer the following with the caveat that I think these two are not

Re: [Texascavers] Guanological question

2008-12-04 Thread Don Arburn
American Heritage perhaps from the French word for ravine: lavanca Go from there Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Gill Ediger gi...@worldnet.att.net wrote: At 03:33 PM 12/4/2008, Geary Schindel wrote: So, if you had a mountain of guano fall on you, would it be a crapalanche?

[Texascavers] Philosophical question

2008-12-04 Thread Geary Schindel
In Texas, it has been pretty rare to obtain any sizable snows on steep slopes with any sizeable population present to create a situation where there might be a mass movement of snow which would be defined as an avalanche. Colorado and Wyoming are different stories as there are serious safety

RE: [Texascavers] Philosophical question

2008-12-04 Thread Mark . Alman
Pretty good, Geary! Maybe Webster's will add this brand new word. Thanks for the chuckle! Mark From: Geary Schindel [mailto:gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:34 PM To: Texas Cavers Subject: [Texascavers]

[Texascavers] RE: Philosophical question

2008-12-04 Thread Fritz Holt
It's getting deep in here. But then, at some point we all have time on our hands, for which we don't need gloves. Fritz From: Geary Schindel [mailto:gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:34 PM To: Texas Cavers Subject: [Texascavers]

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Philosophical question

2008-12-04 Thread George-Paul Richmann
I was thinkin a shit lahar... --GP On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Fritz Holt fh...@townandcountryins.com wrote: It's getting deep in here. But then, at some point we all have time on our hands, for which we don't need gloves. Fritz From: Geary Schindel

Re: [Texascavers] Philosophical question

2008-12-04 Thread Devra Heyer
Would it be a craptastrophe? --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Geary Schindel gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org wrote: From: Geary Schindel gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org Subject: [Texascavers] Philosophical question To: Texas Cavers Texascavers@texascavers.com List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Thursday,

Re: [Texascavers] Philosophical question

2008-12-04 Thread Don Arburn
Assalanche? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Devra Heyer djhe...@swbell.net wrote: Would it be a craptastrophe? --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Geary Schindel gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org wrote: From: Geary Schindel gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org Subject: [Texascavers] Philosophical

Re: [ot_caving] Personal Hygiene Tip - NO MORE DEODORANT

2008-12-04 Thread David
Here are some pretty armpit photos: http://www.visualdxhealth.com/searchResults/adult_Male_Armpit.htm I have some very tiny skin protrusions growing under my arms that are annoying. I have always believed they were related to deodorant as I don't have them anywhere else. I believe these are

Re: [ot_caving] Personal Hygiene Tip - NO MORE DEODORANT

2008-12-04 Thread Don Cooper
Aw come on David! Be a man! I used to have some skin tags in that area - but I (somehow) managed to snag one and tear it. That did hurt for a while but only because it was a protracted 'wound' until it finally crusted up and I yanked the rest of it off with a pair of tweezers. The other two or

[Texascavers] guano question

2008-12-04 Thread David
I am just curious which cave passages have you experienced your worst encounter with bat guano. For me, it was the last pit in Emerald Sink, but I heard someone tell me that there is a pit off the main route of the cave which is the worst they have ever seen. Another time near Ocampo in the

Re: [Texascavers] guano question

2008-12-04 Thread Don Arburn
Surveying up through the center of Punkin. Every move threatened us with death by drowning in guano. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:40 PM, David dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote: I am just curious which cave passages have you experienced your worst encounter with bat guano. For me, it