[Texascavers] TSA Spring Convention Photo Salon

2011-02-13 Thread Don Arburn
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[PBSS] Fw: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Bentley
- Original Message - From: Geary Schindel To: texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:40 AM Subject: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave A TAGNET post noted that there were two fatalities in Ellison's Cave. Here is the link to an article in the

[Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave

2011-02-13 Thread Geary Schindel
A TAGNET post noted that there were two fatalities in Ellison's Cave. Here is the link to an article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/feb/12/2-found-dead-walker-cave/ Geary

RE: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave

2011-02-13 Thread Linda Palit
http://www.jocosarblog.org/jocosarblog/2011/02/ga-bodies-of-two-students-fou nd-in-ellisons-cave.html a little more information maybe From: Geary Schindel [mailto:gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:40 AM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers]

RE: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave

2011-02-13 Thread ryan monjaras
apparently they got tangled on rope http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14019138 Semper Exploro Ryan MonjarasMaverick GrottoCowtown GrottoDFW GrottoUT GrottoBexar Grotto(832)754-5778 From: lkpa...@sbcglobal.net To: gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org; texascavers@texascavers.com List-Post:

[Texascavers] Ellison's accident

2011-02-13 Thread Mixon Bill
If the 125-foot figure in one of those articles is correct, that would be Warm Up Pit, not 510-foot Fantastic Pit. Good thing for the recovery crew, if true. I don't recall any waterfall in Warm Up Pit, but it may depend on the weather. -- Mixon A

RE: [Texascavers] Ellison's accident

2011-02-13 Thread Linda Palit
I've done Fantastic Pit a few times, and it is a beautiful pit. One of the times we did it, we did not have enough rope and had a knot about 7m off the floor. I repelled too far on to the knot before attaching gear to go over, and fought the thing for what seemed like forever, hanging so close

[Texascavers] underground fiction quiz

2011-02-13 Thread Mixon Bill
While looking for something in 1979 issues of the Windy City Speleonews, which I edited exactly 100 issues of from 1965 through 1980, I ran into a couple of more or less cave-related things I wrote back then that might be interesting. The first is this quiz. Match the following underground

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[Texascavers] Bretz's flood

2011-02-13 Thread Mixon Bill
The cave connection of this second item from the Windy City Speleonews is just J Harlen Bretz. Yes, no period after the J, which was his full name. I had lunch with him when he was 94 at his house, Boulderstrewn, in Homewood, Illinois. I happened to drive by, on the way to the NSS