I arrived at the caver camp at CBSP last night to find a real mess
left over from last month's trip, which I was unable to attend. The
firepit is chock-full of broken glass, which we now have to clean up.
Instead of taking their bottles and cans home to recycle, some
thoughtless slobs left
Ernie Don would like some help digging on Kiwi Sink today. If you have a
few hours to spare give Ernie a call at 512-847-0183 to coordinate.
--Ediger
Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave. Roger W.
Brucker. Cave Books, Dayton, Ohio; 2009. ISBN 978-0-939748-71-6. 6 by
9 inches, 269 pages, softbound. $15.95.
The slave Stephen Bishop is the only show-cave guide in the United
States to become a significant historical
texascavers Digest 14 Nov 2009 16:11:20 - Issue 886
Topics (messages 12572 through 12589):
CBSP Project weekend
12572 by: Jim Kennedy
12574 by: Terry Holsinger
12578 by: Mark.Alman.l-3com.com
Punkin Cave Expedition Report
12573 by: Jim Kennedy
12579
Forwarded by Mixon:
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From: ICS 2009 eList secret...@ics2009.us
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: November 14, 2009 2:21:43 AM CST
To: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu
Subject: 15th ICS - More news on the on-line proceedings
Dear Friends,
A few days ago I wrote
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 10:46 AM
See sale code below for discount.
Get direct links to our stores of interest:
www.zazzle.com/texaslyme
www.zazzle.com/coastalwgs
www.zazzle.com/caveformations also has a WGS dog calendar
AM
Fellow members of the Southwest Region (SWR).
One of the subjects which will be discussed at the Winter Tech Mtg in
Alburquerque is whether or not the SWR should volunteer to host the 2013 NSS
Convention in NM. This item was brought up at the last regional by Linda Starr
and was
Nice article on this unique ecosystem and the Colorado cavers that are involved
in its study.
http://www.steamboatmagazine.com/articles/257.php
All's fair
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Charles Goldsmith wo...@justfamily.orgwrote:
Ellie, I'm so going to get you for that! I did over six miles of rough
hiking up slaughter canyon that day. Plus the WNS police are after me about
decon procedures.
Paybacks are going to be glorious!
Cave expert, 80, still spelunking
By JAMI KINTON • News Journal • November 13, 2009
SHELBY -- Roger Brucker got himself into the thick of many an adventure while
growing up in Shelby. Now, at age 80, the active Beavercreek resident said his
exploits are far from over. Brucker, a veteran
Not only is it inspiring to go caving with someone who's been active
at it as long as Roger Brucker: one of the great things about Roger is
that a large number of people have been inspired to go caving with the
CRF in Mammoth after reading his books. While wandering around on the
Mammoth
The caver that Diana mentioned from Houston, is Ronnie Harrison.
He came to the Houston grotto meetings as a kid or teenager back in the
80's.
He was super enthusiastic about becoming a caver.I don't know if anybody
ever
took his enthusiasm seriously.( I wasn't around then, so someone
If you need to archive your caving data for several centuries, check out
this:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575005,00.html
So let's say you have archived 4 1/2 gigs of caving data. You have stored
the DVD ( or
DVD's ), and small laptop ( w/o battery and CMOS battery ), and utility cord
Here is a giant ant bed that they poured concrete into and then excavated
it. It's truly worth looking at:
http://www.break.com/index/giant-ant-colony-is-a-world-wonder.html
--Ediger
Too bad they had to kill them all and destroy everything to check it out. The
woes of science.
-Denise
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:16:22 -0600
From: gi...@att.net
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] The ant cave
Here is a giant ant
I've seen the result of molten aluminum poured into ant colonies as well.
Very cool looking, BUT AT WHAT COST?!
-WaV
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote:
Here is a giant ant bed that they poured concrete into and then excavated
it. It's truly worth looking at:
Is cenote snorkeling or cave snorkeling a form of caving, or would you
classify
it as spelunking ?
http://www.onejungle.com/images/8(1).jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/06/7d/d2/small-cavern.jpg
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