I'm curious - new leads waiting to be pursued in Mammoth, but NONE in Carlsbad? Has CaCa been scoured for years with no promise or is there a moratorium on pushing it? -WaV
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:06 PM, <speleoste...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > Mark Allman wrote: > > >> > Cool cave with a lot of history, but we all like CaCa better. << > > Not me. I like Mammoth Cave far better than Carlsbad. Why? For starters, > it's still being explored and mapped. It gets longer every year. It's > something like 14 times longer than Carlsbad. We go to Mammoth 2 or 3 times > a year and usually set a new world record for the world's longest cave. In > Carlsbad your options are to bop the tourist trails, resurvey some passage > for the upteenth time, or pick up lint. > > Bill > > ---- mark.al...@l-3com.com wrote: > > It was a couple of years ago when we were there. > > > > Cool cave with a lot of history, but we all like CaCa better. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Don Cooper [mailto:wavyca...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Fri 7/25/2008 12:36 PM > > To: David > > Cc: o...@texascavers.com; Minton, Mark; speleoste...@tx.rr.com; > vivb...@att.net > > Subject: Re: [ot_caving] Re: [Texascavers] RE: Here's a fun one > > > > > > When I was a kid, I visited Mammoth with my mom and dad. At the time, > old saltpeter mining gear was still in the cave - like vats and wooden > pipes. I wonder if that stuff is still there? > > =WaV > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:58 AM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > This is an interesting thread. > > > > > > According to Wikipedia, > > > > The U.S. Congress passed legislation that would allow U.S. citizens > to take possession of unoccupied > > islands containing saltpetre. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act > > > > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Chincha_guano_islands.JPG > > > > Note this is supposedly how we obtained the famous Midway Island. > > > > > > > > There is lots of information info on the web about salt-petre and > caves. > > > > For example: > > > > > http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DMR3/dmrpdfs/vamin/VAMIN_VOL47_NO04.pdf > > > > > >
