[Texascavers] [Fwd: [CaveDiggers] Laser targets, etc.]

2007-03-26 Thread Yvonne Droms
Hi all, I thought John Ganter's comments (on Cavediggers) on how to best use a Disto would be interesting to you all. Yvonne Original Message Subject: [CaveDiggers] Laser targets, etc. Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:13:50 -0700 From: John Ganter j...@darkfrontier.us Reply-To:

Re: [Texascavers] Help is needed to identify animal bones found in a cave.

2007-03-26 Thread Yvonne Droms
with. Fred Yvonne Droms Ioannis Zenas wrote: Help is needed to identify animal bones found in a cave. As the result of a recent cave-exploration, two members of the Hellenic Speleological Society found human and animal's bones. Can anyone identify the animal from the attached photo

Re: CaveTex: Voronya

2007-03-26 Thread Yvonne Droms
Bill Mixon wrote: Ukrainian cavers call is Krubera and say it's in Georgia (Republic of). Russian cavers call it Voronya and say it's in Abkhazia (part of Georgia that's trying to secede). And to further complicate the matter, there are three spellings for Voronja: with a Y, a J, and an I:

[Texascavers] TCR

2007-03-26 Thread Yvonne Droms
game of Frisbee golf! Yvonne Droms (in Virginia) ___ Texascavers mailing list Texascavers@texascavers.com http://mail.texascavers.com/mailman/listinfo/texascavers_texascavers.com

[Texascavers] [Fwd: Krubera -2140!!!]

2007-03-26 Thread Yvonne Droms
That's in meters, of course... :) --Yvonne --- Original Message Subject:Krubera -2140!!! List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:11:35 +0200 From: Peter Stargalla ave...@web.de To: speleo...@insl1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de, speleo...@speleo.ch,

Re: [Texascavers] [erncrc] [Fwd: Krubera -2140!!!]

2007-03-26 Thread Yvonne Droms
Yes, picky Bru... you are right if you're thinking like an American... but the message was written by a European and sent to Europeans, and that's why meters was not even mentioned in the first place since it was assumed, and that's why 2140 had a period (2.140) instead of a comma (2,140)...

Re: CaveTex: Cave Accident in France

2007-03-26 Thread Yvonne Droms
condolences to his friends and family, Yvonne Droms At 12:08 AM + 6/21/05, Antonio Aguirre Alvarez wrote: Last Saturday, a French Caver died while rigging a 300mts deep pit. Gerard A. (with two cavers) was rigging a 300mts deep pit with 200mts and 8mm diameter rope. He began to rapell

Re: CaveTex: NSS Awards - Susan Souby

2007-03-26 Thread Yvonne Droms
lmcn...@austin.rr.com wrote: The old record was held by Miriam Cuddington. Actually I had broken Miriam's record last year at the Michigan Convention, so Susan broke my record for the 120 m, not Miriam's. Susan also broke my record from last year for the 30 m in our 50-59 age group, as well as