Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-10 Thread Charles Loving
Vandalism.. On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Ben Starr wrote: > This is a block from my best friend's house whose been caving with me many > times. He was out talking to some of the initial "explorers" and they > mentioned that the speleothems were lying on the ground in the

Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-10 Thread Ben Starr
This is a block from my best friend's house whose been caving with me many times. He was out talking to some of the initial "explorers" and they mentioned that the speleothems were lying on the ground in the cave, I guess broken during the sinkhole collapse. (Who knows if that's true or not?)

Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-09 Thread Justin Shaw
I’ll qualify my quip about the quality of this map to say that given it was produced the same day as the survey, it’s perhaps no better than I, or most, could produce so quickly. It’s just that as a caver I’m used to seeing higher quality maps, and indeed did chuckle at the wording of the

Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-09 Thread Bill Steele
; Thats Kimble White's crew >> >> From: "Justin Shaw" <jus...@oztotl.net> >> To: "texascavers" <texascavers@texascavers.com> >> Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 3:10:43 PM >> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area? &

Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-09 Thread Galen Falgout
> *To: *"texascavers" <texascavers@texascavers.com> > *Sent: *Friday, February 9, 2018 3:10:43 PM > *Subject: *Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area? > > Not only are they taking speleothems out of the cave, they’re handing them > out as souvenirs. > &

Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-09 Thread grubbsi
Thats Kimble White's crew From: "Justin Shaw" <jus...@oztotl.net> To: "texascavers" <texascavers@texascavers.com> Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 3:10:43 PM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area? Not only are they taking speleothems out o

Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-09 Thread Justin Shaw
Not only are they taking speleothems out of the cave, they’re handing them out as souvenirs. > On Feb 9, 2018, at 08:21, Heather Tucek wrote: > > https://kxan.com/2018/02/08/20-foot-deep-sinkhole-opens-in-williamson-county/ > > Has anyone seen this yet? Apparently

Re: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-09 Thread Geary Schindel
[mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of Heather Tucek Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 8:21 AM To: Texas Cavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> Subject: [Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area? https://kxan.com/2018/02/08/20-foot-deep-sinkhole-opens-in-williamson-county/ Has anyone seen th

[Texascavers] New Cave in Brushy Creek area?

2018-02-09 Thread Heather Tucek
https://kxan.com/2018/02/08/20-foot-deep-sinkhole-opens-in-williamson-county/ Has anyone seen this yet? Apparently someone has already been down there breaking formations: " Cambrian Environmental Services sent two scientists repelling into the cave to help map it out. A growing crowd of