texascavers Digest 16 Sep 2013 16:05:00 - Issue 1845
Topics (messages 22693 through 22697):
Discovery Well Cave Preserve Insident
22693 by: Mike Walsh
22694 by: Don Cooper
22695 by: Leslie Bell
Re: Solo Caving
22696 by: Louise Power
Re: [SWR] Guadalupe
John Oliver's Postojnska Jama of 1856, with an introduction by Trevor
Shaw. ZRC Publishing House, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2013. ISBN
978-961-254-472-0. About 16.5 inches wide by 11.7 high, 183 pp. Free
73 MB PDF file from www.zrc-sazu.si/en/node/.
This is a color photographic reproduction of
Ahh, the stories. I once had a certain kind of madness named Tony Hopkins
as my digging partner. He had the bad judgement to bring his eight year
old son along with us. As happens often, I came to a place were I could
see beyond. I could smell it. I could taste it. But, i just couldn't fit.
texascavers Digest 16 Sep 2013 22:17:11 - Issue 1846
Topics (messages 22698 through 22709):
book review: 1850s book on Postojnska Grotto
22698 by: Mixon Bill
Re: Solo Caving
22699 by: Bill Bentley
22700 by: Diana Tomchick
22701 by: James Jasek
22702
When she was living and caving in Belize, I have the impression that
Barb MacLeod was into staying alone in a cave for a day or so as a
sort of sensory deprivation, mind-altering experience. This is based
mainly on her 1973 song Forever on a Flowstone Moëbius Strip, which
wraps up:
Turn
On 9/16/2013 6:47 PM, Mixon Bill wrote:
When she was living and caving in Belize, I have the impression that Barb MacLeod was into staying alone in a cave for a day or so as a sort
of sensory deprivation, mind-altering experience. This is based mainly on her 1973 song Forever on a Flowstone
Sorry, looks like those links don't work. Just go to Mesoweb and search for
keywords.
http://www.mesoweb.com
Original Message
Subject:[Texascavers] Re: solo caving, cave meditation
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:32:45 -0500
From: Logan McNatt lmcn...@austin.rr.com
texascavers Digest 17 Sep 2013 00:47:19 - Issue 1847
Topics (messages 22710 through 22717):
Re: Solo
22710 by: Jim Kennedy
22711 by: Pete Lindsley
22715 by: James Jasek
solo cave sitting
22712 by: Mixon Bill
Forever on a Flowstone Mo�bius Strip
Begin forwarded message:From: "Pierce, Karl" karl_pie...@nps.govSubject: Guadalupe Mountains National Park News Release - Storm Closure UpdateDate: September 13, 2013 4:48:57 PM MDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Bcc: bels...@valornet.comNational Park Service Guadalupe Mountains400
Forwarded on behalf of Barbara MacLeod:
These were carefully-planned experiments in sensory isolation, set far into a familiar but then seldom-visited, beautifully decorated cave that
was used by the Classic Maya to propitiate earth and rain gods. Ancient human bones and pottery were found
Was it 10 hours because you were having a good time or because you couldn't
find your way out?
From: ca...@caver.net
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 13:42:32 -0500
Subject: [Texascavers] Re: Solo Caving
Done a whole bunch in Amazing Maze Cave back in the mid 80's.
Pure Fun!
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From: Louise Power
To: Bill Bentley ; texas cavers
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 10:17 AM
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Re: Solo Caving
Was it 10 hours because you were having a good time or because you couldn't
find your way out?
I don't get much time to discuss caving with people where I work, but last week
I had someone in my office that was admiring the Speleoprojects postcards I had
posted on my outer door (I save these from their calendar every year, and post
them in rotation as my mood changes). It turned out that
Thank you for the interesting history of you past and early caving years.
Jim
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On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Diana Tomchick diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
wrote:
I don't get much time to discuss caving with people where I work, but last
week I had someone in my office
Many, many years ago (1973?) I was in Waynesville MO over the
Christmas holiday on leave from the Army. I didn't know any cavers
there anymore, but did want to visit Christmas Cave which is listed
in J. Harlan Bretz' Caves of Missouri. Since it was a horizontal cave
I figured I could at least
Thanks. Cool account if the solo trip. Made me feel as if I was there. This is
more or less the type if cave I was asking about as to a easy cave to do a solo
trip.
Others have contributed solo trips I feel are well beyond what I was asking
about. Being alone in the water crawl is an easy
It isn't *really* solo, but the only time I have been in the cave at Kiwi I
explored a little by myself. One of the diggers working inside was kind enough
to tell me what to expect. I headed for an upper room and ended up belly
crawling in wet muck - I was so hungover I felt like I was going to
Thank you. I raised you right. I was there when you crawled into this hell hole
of mud in tight breakdown in Kiwi. Your mom and me were helping with the dig.
When you came you told me not to go in there. You were covered in wet mud
Your father :)
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On Sep 16, 2013, at 2:24
Not surprising since they're under the same weather conditions as Colorado. I
think it's supposed to go on for another week.
From: ma_orm...@msn.com
To: s...@caver.net
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:42:05 -0500
Subject: [SWR] Flooding in New Mexico
So here in West Texas we've seen several
Solo
I have found this to be a rather interesting thread.
James' question, which started all this, was What is the general feeling
regarding solo caving?
That seems to have morphed into Why would anyone go caving alone? And
finally into folks actually describing some
Personally, I think this would make a good essay for The TEXAS CAVER.
Jim
(Who has his own tales of solo caving, but chooses not to add fuel to the fire.
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On Sep 16, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Bill Bentley ca...@caver.net wrote:
Well said...
Bill
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Well, that statement brings back a fond memory, again way deep in Proctor Cave,
now connected to Mammoth Cave.
Our survey team did the crawl, the 160' drops, the inner-tube assisted swim in
wetsuits across Hawkins River deep spot, and a day's long survey of virgin
passage. At the end of the
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