Re: [Texascavers] [Free Weekend at D&P This Weekend]

2016-03-03 Thread Caver via Texascavers
Wish I could help you out this weekend but I have to finish up with cutting several mesquite trees down in the backyard. They make good firewood. And there's plenty of trees here. Daniel Ramirez dramire...@ymail.com > On Mar 1, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Don Arburn via Texascavers > wrote: > > I'm r

[Texascavers] January & February Government Canyon Karst Project Report

2016-03-03 Thread Marvin and Lisa via Texascavers
Government Canyon Karst Project Report January 2, 2016 Participants: Pam Campbell, Bennett Lee, Leah Miller, Marvin Miller, Joe Schaertl Saturday was a cold, rainy day but 3 participants showed up to join my daughter Leah and me. Because of the weather I decided we would do a monitoring

[Texascavers] early show cave

2016-03-03 Thread Mixon Bill via Texascavers
Russ Gurnee's 107-page book "Discovery of Luray Caverns, Virginia," is evidently out of print. Amazon advertises copies from $0.23 up (plus postage). That 1978 book, published by the author 100 years after the discovery of the cave, contains many old engravings. It is obviously fictionalized, as

[Texascavers] America's First Commercial Caves

2016-03-03 Thread Carl Kunath via Texascavers
Click on this lengthy URL for an interesting story about some of the first show caves in this country. ===Carl Kunath http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/show-caves-arent-telling?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura&utm_campaign=8ffaca8167-Newsletter_3_3_20163_2_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_62ba9246c0-8