RE: [Texascavers] pit safety

2008-11-13 Thread Sheryl Rieck
I am sure this was not funny at the time, but this did make me laugh right out loud! Sheryl -Original Message- From: John Brooks [mailto:jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:22 AM To: David Cc: Texascavers Mailing List Subject: Re: [Texascavers] pit safety I

Re: [Texascavers] pit safety

2008-11-13 Thread John Brooks
I was involved in a similar incident years agoI was urinating just before entering an unmentioned cave in Oklahomawhen one of my companions screamed "SNAKE!"I thought he was complimenting mebut look down and realized I was peeing on a very pissed off rattlesnakeI leapt ba

[Texascavers] pit safety

2008-11-12 Thread David
I am posting this here, because this could happen at the edge of a cave if you are not careful: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/11/12/english.or.kid.falls.from.cliffs.katu I once saw something like this happen at a cave. I was at "Little Brehmer Cave" near New Braunfels in 1990. The o