Re: [Texascavers] austin american Statesman article on Bill Russell and the karst preserve

2019-06-14 Thread JamesJasek
ote: > > That’s a really nice article. I’m so glad to see Bill getting properly > honored. > > On Jun 14, 2019, at 9:36 PM, Katherine Arens wrote: > >> https://www.statesman.com/news/20190614/50-years-of-digging-story-of-honored-austin-caver >> >> *

[Texascavers] A road-trip story

2019-06-14 Thread David
The stars seemed to have aligned for me tomorrow, for the first time in 3 years. It appears that I am going to embark on another Craigslist misadventure in the morning. This will be my first such misadventure where I am the passenger - if you don't count all the years that I spent hitch-hiking.

Re: [Texascavers] austin american Statesman article on Bill Russell and the karst preserve

2019-06-14 Thread Scott Boyd
Great article - and the reporter didn't even call them "underground caves"! On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 9:36 PM Katherine Arens wrote: > > https://www.statesman.com/news/20190614/50-years-of-digging-story-of-honored-austin-caver > > > -- Scott D. Boyd scottd...@gma

Re: [Texascavers] Looking for old caver

2019-06-14 Thread Steve Keselik
I've also wondered about Susie since she's been absent.She was a mainstay of Texas caving, every vertical work shop and other things she was involved with. she was my mentor at CWAN for the photo workshop,back when we used film, 1998 right after I recovered from adult chickenpox. The illness almos

Re: [Texascavers] austin american Statesman article on Bill Russell and the karst preserve

2019-06-14 Thread Katherine Arens
t 9:36 PM, Katherine Arens mailto:ar...@austin.utexas.edu>> wrote: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190614/50-years-of-digging-story-of-honored-austin-caver Katherine ArensPhones: Office(512) 232-6363 ar...@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:ar...@austin.utexas.edu

Re: [Texascavers] austin american Statesman article on Bill Russell and the karst preserve

2019-06-14 Thread Chris Vreeland
That’s a really nice article. I’m so glad to see Bill getting properly honored. > On Jun 14, 2019, at 9:36 PM, Katherine Arens wrote: > > https://www.statesman.com/news/20190614/50-years-of-digging-story-of-honored-austin-caver > > > Katherine Are

[Texascavers] Looking for old caver

2019-06-14 Thread Katherine Arens
Susie Lasko, and/or her daughter Aspen Adams (don’t remember her married name). Trying to track down some photos. HELP! katie Katherine ArensPhones: Office(512) 232-6363 ar...@austin.utexas.edu Dept. Phone: (512) 471-4123 Dept. o

[Texascavers] austin american Statesman article on Bill Russell and the karst preserve

2019-06-14 Thread Katherine Arens
https://www.statesman.com/news/20190614/50-years-of-digging-story-of-honored-austin-caver Katherine ArensPhones: Office(512) 232-6363 ar...@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:ar...@austin.utexas.edu> Dept. Phone: (512) 471-4123 Dept. of Germanic Studies FA

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Convention

2019-06-14 Thread Steve Keselik
David, I Love you dearly, but if you're going to live in Houston don't complain. Love it or leave it.I left Lake Jackson at 17 in a VW camp mobile and traveled the world, My world,and damn sure didn't look back. The American south west all the way to Montana.I welded in strip mines, built bikes in

Re: [Texascavers] A consumer tip - new cell phones

2019-06-14 Thread Charles Loving
Have no idea what a Garmin is. In the Air Force we had a navigator on our weather recon aircraft who had a little dome to shoot stars at night. We also had TACAN and a few other devices. Never got lost. No GPS or Charmin in those days. On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 6:36 PM Scott Boyd wrote: > I drive