There appears to be quite a few videos on the web showing how to use
vertical gear.This was something we didn't have when I was learning
how to use gear, and we had to sometimes learn the hard way, meaning
by how not to do it.
Here is an example of a new video showing an ascender with a
Toward the rear of the December 2010 National Geographic will be found
an article on bats and White Nose Syndrome in which Jim Kennedy is
quoted several times.
In the Letters section on page 8 of the same issue one can also find a
note by Jill Yager praising the NG's posthumous tribute to cave
Not only is Kennedy quoted, but it looks as if the whole article is
titled after him.
Not to be morbid of make light the seriousness of the situation, but the
photo showing the bats laying on what looks like dinner plates made me do a
double take. I thought maybe there was a going to be a new
Advance notice; more info later:
WHEREAS The UT Grotto normally meets on the fifth Wednesday of any
month that has one, but the UT campus is completely closed down
between Christmas and New Years, and
WHEREAS Wednesday, December 29 happens to be the day I become a
septuagenarian,
THEREFORE
texascavers Digest 2 Dec 2010 15:13:18 - Issue 1202
Topics (messages 16591 through 16620):
Re: conference prices
16591 by: George Veni
16601 by: Gill Edigar
16603 by: Diana Tomchick
16604 by: Geary Schindel
prices
16592 by: Mixon Bill
16593
Unfortunately, people do eat bats in Africa and parts of
Asia. I think it is mostly the large fruit bats rather than the
little bats we're familiar with - you wouldn't get much out of them.
Mark Minton
At 10:12 AM 12/2/2010, Robert B wrote:
Not only is Kennedy quoted, but it looks as
I can not find that issue of the 2010 Newsletter to confirm what Gill has
posted. But that picture on page 432 of Carl’s book is definitely the Mike
Collins that we knew. Indeed, Diane and I went to Tanaja and El Tigre with
Mike and his wife (since divorced) and I think that it was 1964. We
In today's Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120203102.html?hpid=topnews
Diana
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Diana R. Tomchick
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of
Though the term Second Genesis is rightfully denied by the investigators,
it's an evocative phrase. And at a cruder level it makes an opening for jokes
about a 'battle of the Gods and Children of a Lesser God, etc.
Roger Moore
-Original Message-
From: Diana Tomchick
Is anyone traveling from Houston to San Antonio in December. I have a well
packer I need to have brought to San Antonio and I'm willing to help cover gas
expenses. Email or call me off line.
Thanks,
Geary Schindel
210.326.1576 cell
All,
The final chance to speak up on the not very well researched, knee-jerk,
won't-exactly-help-anyway-but-someone-closer-to-us-may-decide-to-do-this-anyway
Wisconsin DNR plan for combatting WNS.
I normally try to be a bit more politic in my descriptions of agency follies
but I'm at work
Hey all, I'm likely heading down to San Antonio soon and was wondering
about the availability of any open trips to Mexico around the holidays?
I've got a capable 4x4 rig with extra space for gear/folks and my own
caving equipment.
Thanks-
Gary McDaniel
Texican
I'm not trying to sell you on anything but several of us have decided
to avoid Northern Mexico until the bandito problems moderate. I've got
business I need to take care of down there but will put it off for a
while longer. Even Mexicans are refusing to travel around due to
indiscriminate
The 2010 Newsletter of the UT Jackson School of GeoSciences indicates
that a Michael B. Collins (67 years old) who received a BA in geology
in 1970 died in July. Can anybody confirm that he is the Mike Collins
who was a UT caver in the late '60s. He had a photo of a 'tigre' taken
at Sótano del
I am not able to verify this one way or the other but I hope it isn't our
Michael Collins who is pictured on page 432 of 50 Years of Texas Caving as the
flagman on the brink of Devil's Sinkhole during the 1964 NSS Convention field
trip.
Anyone have more information?
===Carl Kunath
-
If it is indeed the same one that attended UT then that would be he at
Devil's Sinkhole. He was my room mate in the upstairs room at 611 W
23rd in Austin in the summer of 1968.
--Ediger
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Carl Kunath carl.kun...@suddenlink.net wrote:
I am not able to verify this
I'm afraid he is our Mike. See
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesman/obituary.aspx?n=michael-b-collinspid=143956713
Janie and I knew his family, brother, wives. I was best man at his first
wedding. We met his second wife briefly and she was a nice person, too.
Though it has been 30+
Be forwarned. The last time I did that the boat sank. Flotation gear is
adivsed (by me).
The Christmass decortaions are welll put out by the well-to-do in the Bad,
though. It is (or was) a good show, especially from Lake Carlsbad (The Damned
Pecos).
By the way, if it is still there
Sounds like we need a field trip to the Denton Funeral Home during or before
the regional.
Linda Starr
From: dirt...@comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:19 PM
To: Carol Belski
Cc: Cave Texas ; Cave NM
Subject: Re: [NMCAVER] [Texascavers] Christmas from the General Washington the
There is still time to comment on the Wisconsin DNR WNS Rules - until Dec 3
at 4pm.
For everyone that has been following the Wisconsin DNR's misguided WNS
management plan.
It's not too late to submit comments to Wisconsin regarding their WNS
policies which will harm bat populations! We
A version of Mixon's scenario happened
at the NSS Convention in Vermont last
summer. The venue required that they do many
things that caver volunteers would normally have
done, and they charged a hefty fee to do so. For
instance there was a conspicuous lack of beer. I
think there
When we had the NSS Convention in New Braunfels in 1978 many of us
were sick and tired of NSS Conventions costing 70 or 80 dollars, plus
the cost of fuel to get there. So we vowed that the Texas convention
would not cost that much. Through much volunteer effort we managed to
have what was
Folks,
A fellow employee is giving away two very plump and organically raised guinea
pigs with a cage. They even answer when called so you wouldn't have to chase
them around the cage to catch them. Anyway, if someone is looking for an
alternative to turkey, ham or pork, for Christmas, they
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