[Texascavers] good news on ICS volunteers

2008-01-26 Thread Nancy Weaver
Thanks all - within 4 hours of posting the volunteer call, I heard from 6 people. 5 of them are already either chairing committees or running trips, helping with guidebooks etc. 1 was a woman from New Mexico who gave me her contact info for future reference when we know just what volunteer ta

[Texascavers] seeking RD Milhollin

2008-01-28 Thread Nancy Weaver
please contact me off list. thanks Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com

[Texascavers] beauty unimagined just below the surface

2008-01-30 Thread Nancy Weaver
Its been a hard day, a hard couple of days, not just the details of getting ready for a trip or the uncertainties around work and around the world, but the heaviness of winter gone on too long, too brown, too lifeless to be borne much longer. It was tempting to call my friend and say, 'not tod

[Texascavers] OT mini retreat: yoga, meditation, journaling for women

2008-02-19 Thread Nancy Weaver
Upon hearing that I just completed a yoga teacher training course, Jocie Hooper asked me to consider leading a half day women's yoga, meditation and vision quest journaling retreat at my home in Driftwood. She was so enthusiastic that I have decided to schedule one for either a saturday or sun

[Texascavers] attnGrace Borengasser

2008-02-21 Thread Nancy Weaver
please contact me off list re ICS volunteering. I've got the wrong email address for you. thanks, -- Nancy Weaver Volunteer Co-ordinator ICS nan...@io.com 512.847.7422 - Visit our website: http://texascavers.c

Re: [Texascavers] computer progress

2007-12-08 Thread Nancy Weaver
so how do you know someone 'didnt' go back with a contemporary computer? hmmm Nance - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: te

RE: [Texascavers] OT-The Border Fence

2007-12-12 Thread Nancy Weaver
I echo the observations of other respondents who say that with the billions of dollars that this project is to cost, results could best be achieved or even by putting the money into the mexican economy and creating a livable life for them at home. what a concept. using millions to make

RE: [Texascavers] OT-The Border Fence

2007-12-12 Thread Nancy Weaver
Boeing gets the money - who does the work? Lyndon Tiu asked: Question: Who are they hiring to build the fence? Didn't you read the article? First paragraph says: Amid a strong warning from Congress, the Homeland Security Department last week conditionally accepted delivery of the first pha

[Texascavers] digging

2007-12-19 Thread Nancy Weaver
Yesterday I went digging. A friend came and picked me up and off we went to one of those ubiquitous oversized subdivisions where the city pushes hungrily against former ranch and pasturelands. We walked through the upscale 'backyard' zone, with barking dog and chiminea to the liveoak that mar

[Texascavers] bats cats and mice

2008-01-05 Thread Nancy Weaver
someone mentioned to me a trivial pursuit question regarding what mammal lives in caves? the answer of course is bats . . . which got me to wondering if bats habitually live any further into a cave than the bears, cats etc which use caves as dens. I've personally seen evidence of mice thriv

RE: [Texascavers] bats cats and mice

2008-01-06 Thread Nancy Weaver
Lots of nice responses, thanks all. The consensus would appear to be that a great variety of mammals (and others) utilize caves to an equal extent as bats. And that all use the cave as a dwelling rather than a habitat. I'd surmise that the examples found 'way back into the cave' are accide

[Texascavers] the further adventures of guy noir, subterranean investigator

2008-01-07 Thread Nancy Weaver
It was the dregs of December. That time when days are short and rich food and lavish drink become an ordeal rather than a treat. One cold windy grey cabin feverish afternoon I wrestled on layers of stained torn clothes and called - Guy Noir, subterranean investigator. Get me outta here befor

Re: [Texascavers] Science, Evolution and Creationism

2008-01-10 Thread Nancy Weaver
Brian - good luck and thanks for taking the time to attempt to respond to the scientist fundamentalists. I doubt it will do much (any) good, but who knows and you are young and energetic. I'm fairly sure that polarity is not the answer and that evolution and god exist quite comfortably in a y

[Texascavers] Lousie; heres my answer to your question

2008-01-14 Thread Nancy Weaver
I think I finally understand. Plastic bags and global warming are off topic, Describing why they are off topic is on topic. If I disagree with you it is off topic. If I agree with you, it is on topic. If you agree with me, it is really really on topic. And poking fun at inconsistencies i

[Texascavers] international congress

2008-01-15 Thread Nancy Weaver
I hope someone is keeping the europeans who are thinking of coming here for the ICS abreast of this. In my experience they are an irreverent lot who would just as soon discuss canyoneering skiing or drinking games as stick to the subject of caving. I volunteer to write a prologue to the guide

[Texascavers] George Veni has offered some excellent guide lines

2008-01-15 Thread Nancy Weaver
yes indeed, and since George is presumably an intelligent man, one can only assume they were written with a sublime sense of irony as telling people what is appropriate to post is not as a matter of fact an appropriate cave related posting. Nancy author of 2 of the 3 actual caving posts in re

Re: [Texascavers] OTtex vs. Cavetex

2008-01-15 Thread Nancy Weaver
charles thank you for one of the few reasoned responses to any of this hoo haa. Good Lord what a bunch of sourpusses we've become. As the author of two of the three actual caving posts in who knows how long - I'll be damned if I'm going to let others dictate my posts. geess the sound of

[Texascavers] Attachments?

2008-01-16 Thread Nancy Weaver
believe it or not there are still people on the list who have modem dialup. I've understood that to be the reason for no attachments. It takes forever to download IF the computer will allow it at all. Links work very well or 'contact me off list' for anything larger than a message that one wi

[Texascavers] OT some mt somewhere

2007-10-29 Thread Nancy Weaver
I am not sure if anyone pointed this out in the recycling discussion, but I think one of the most important effects of recycling is conservation of virgin resources. For example, I'm not exactly sure how aluminum is produced, but most likely some mountain is ground up actually it is the island

Re: [Texascavers] OT some mt somewhere

2007-10-29 Thread Nancy Weaver
Curious question: What are the economics of mining landfills for raw materials? I am sure landfills have ore grade concentrations of anything man needs to make his tools. Madagascar is a good snapshot of a potential post apocalyptic world and they have been mining their landfills for years,

Re: [Texascavers] energy

2007-10-30 Thread Nancy Weaver
On Fusion - I think its been one of those things like a mirage or rainbow - the closer we've thought we were to its grasp - it only turned out to be that much farther out of reach. Unless a quantum solution is discovered to "fake out" matter - A 'net positive' fusion reactor might only be poss

Re: [Texascavers] Paella

2007-10-30 Thread Nancy Weaver
Paella, like most famous regional foods, bouillabase and migas come to mind, was originally peasant eat whatever you've got on hand food. It is laughable to see strict recipes dedicated to going out and buying specific ingredients to create - left overs. Nance ---

[Texascavers] Re: Okay - the chupacabra, a subspecies of hairless coyotes?

2007-11-07 Thread Nancy Weaver
I got this from a totally non caving related source. I like the idea of flying coyotes Nance http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3810139

Re: [Texascavers] Another good reason to explore small caves :

2007-11-11 Thread Nancy Weaver
"It is very laborious. It would have been easier to get a job than go down there," said Captain Woodrow Tripp. how sadly true. if only we had all been warned that 15 or 20 years ago! Nancy

[Texascavers] finite resources

2007-11-16 Thread Nancy Weaver
So in reality, I don't see how we can stop this trend of people living in houses above their means. Reality is exactly what will stop people from living in houses above the planets means. Unless of course we humans have the good sense to realize what a thin branch way out on the end of the fo

[Texascavers] RE: finite resources

2007-11-16 Thread Nancy Weaver
>you can get an est of about 100,000,000,000 (100 Billion) for the number people who have ever lived. That is very similar to the estimate in (half way down the page). It says about 6% of all the people who ever lived are alive today, and I'll

[Texascavers] thanksgiving

2007-11-25 Thread Nancy Weaver
havent checked my email in awhile, here is a non caver, caving event Gratitude Cave Ceremony Saturday November 24th 5pm arrival Celebrate Gratitude and the Full Moon in Beorne TX at The Cave Without a Name Join Jodi Roberts for a descent into Mother Earth for Tibetan Bowls, followed by the

Re: [Texascavers] Texas Cavers Reunion 2007

2007-07-21 Thread Nancy Weaver
thanks Allan for negotiating for the dogs - who are often some of the better behaved participants! Nance - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional

RE: [Texascavers] US Border Fences 'an Eco-Danger' (Sigma Xi Science News Daily)

2007-08-02 Thread Nancy Weaver
of course, if it weren't for Mexico, there would be no water in the Rio Grande whatsoever in Texas. - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional comma

RE: [Texascavers] US Border Fences 'an Eco-Danger' (Sigma Xi Science News Daily)

2007-08-02 Thread Nancy Weaver
. It would seem to me that a better solution would be to employ double or triple the number of border patrol agents and properly equip them. This would create many new jobs although at taxpayer expense. This also might appease the Mexican government. Does this make sense or is it over simplificati

[Texascavers] Ezell's Cave history :

2007-08-14 Thread Nancy Weaver
I thought ezells was the cave at little ark. so which one is that? which surely was not discovered by lifting a rock, unless you are Paul Bunyan . . . Nance - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[Texascavers] hurricanes

2007-08-17 Thread Nancy Weaver
of course no trees or stalagmites were harmed in the gathering of this 'hiden' data N - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: t

[Texascavers] inroads with oztotl

2007-08-29 Thread Nancy Weaver
Back in my shoeless years, I was accustomed to being asked to leave many an establishment for lack of footwear. When I was approached in the Smithsonian by a guard, I mentally prepared to exit til he asked if I was barefoot for religious reasons. Of course, I replied, and when asked to sign

Re: [Texascavers] Missionaries

2007-08-28 Thread Nancy Weaver
What all these Whackos, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and New Age alike all have in common is the unshakable belief that their particular set of superstitions is true and all others false. Many of them are good hearted people, but that doesn't change the fact that their belief system is

Re: [Texascavers] spiritual overalls

2007-09-04 Thread Nancy Weaver
Well, yes, Louise, but that's more like somebody's wishful response to a child's question--they don't REALLY know that, and can't. The one thing we do know absolutely is that as far as Heaven and the spiritual world go the imagination is not only the source, but the limit--and that is pretty mu

[Texascavers] birds

2007-09-14 Thread Nancy Weaver
I've got birdfeeders all over my backyard - and I enjoy every bird that comes to them. Despite the deep delusion of entitlement most humans are under, I try to remember that its not MY house land air. I'm just one of the many critters and plants sharing this space. Nancy

[Texascavers] OT Austin area contra dancing

2007-06-03 Thread Nancy Weaver
for any cavers who may want a monthly dose of high energy dancing to wonderful live music here is the June schedule for the Austin Contra Dancers. Each dance is taught and called, the dancers 60 -200 are friendly, helpful and encouraging. You can come alone or with a partner, traditionally pe

Re: [Texascavers] Tourist cave worker found dead after failing to return from inside

2007-05-01 Thread Nancy Weaver
More than 90 searchers from the South Texas Regional Advisory Council for Trauma, San Antonio Fire Department Technical Rescue Team and spelunkers specializing in special rescues took part. It took 90! people to find someone in known passage? Good thing we have all those specialists. Nanc

[Texascavers] apologies

2007-05-01 Thread Nancy Weaver
My apologies to all involved for an unnecessarily flippant remark. Thanks to all who spent their time in the recovery. Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascaver

[Texascavers] taos high bridge

2007-05-15 Thread Nancy Weaver
Fritz, There's a safe sidewalk on both sides of the bridge. There's a fenced platform that sticks out in the middle. You can make out the platform in the photo. It's right above the Rio Grande, which is 600 feet below. That bridge is just west of Taos. Bill Bill - when I was running that

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Six months or 180 days?

2007-05-22 Thread Nancy Weaver
Is part of the confusion perhaps that there is an Insurance Policy that allows one to use only the days actually spent in Mexico? Nancy - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr..

Re: [Texascavers] Chinese Wall in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of NW Montana

2014-08-04 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
yes, thats where they used to relocate the 'bad bears' from national parks in the west . . . On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Preston Forsythe via Texascavers wrote: > The largest population of Grizzly Bears in the lower 48 are located in the > Bob. > _

Re: [Texascavers] tcr

2014-08-31 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
was there another tcr at luckenbach? I remember going to one but pretty sure it wasnt 78 . . . Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.co

Re: [Texascavers] FW: Caves of the El Malpais

2014-09-03 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
what great reminescences. I got to experience Mexican caving that was wide open and unregulated. How cool to have Texas as a playground. Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.

Re: [Texascavers] Ranch with 2 caves up for sale

2014-09-03 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Only about 1 million dollars and I bet they would take less. What a great project for TSA and permanent home for TCR. . . . Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.co

Re: [Texascavers] tcr

2014-09-03 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
that would fit and yes hard to reply to the individual. On Sep 3, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Gill Edigar via Texascavers wrote: > Nancy you were probably at the '85 (?) TSA Business Meeting that was held > there. > --Ediger > ___ Texascavers mailing list | h

Re: [Texascavers] Devils River State Natural Area trip anouncement - November 8-9, 2014 :

2014-09-18 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
I’m interested. Nancy nan...@prismnet.com ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] Fwd: IT'S PAPER!!! IT'S REALLY PAPER?

2014-10-08 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
way cool. Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers

[Texascavers] precipicio

2014-11-11 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
my favorite cave in northern Mexico. a glorious wild beauty, tricky and so worthwhile to get to. spending the night in the upper level is worth the effort of hauling bivouac gear. and the lower section is one of the loveliest, most decorated caves I know of. maybe its a blessing that bustamo

[Texascavers] dental work in Mexico, keeps those caver smiles

2014-11-15 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
anyone have experience of a good dentist in the yucatan area? I used Vico’s family dentist in San Luis once - excellent, inexpensive work and I recommend him highly. This time we’d like to go to Yucatan instead thanks, Nancy nan...@prismnet.com ___ T

Re: [Texascavers] Mike Boon, Poet Caver

2014-12-23 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
thanks Frank what a lovely remembrance. could you repost the link to Mike’s adventures Inside Earth? by the time I got around to looking at it, the link was broken? and any more poetry wish I’d known him Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http:/

Re: [Texascavers] another reporter story

2015-01-19 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
I’ve been in caves that didn’t have enough air! Nancy > On Mon, January 19, 2015 12:57 pm, Mixon Bill via Texascavers wrote: >> One of the more entertaining interviews has one TV >> reporter asking Ron Kerbo if the rescue personnel had enough food, >> water, and air. Kerbo just calmly assumed hi

Re: [Texascavers] New Program Comes to NOVA: Sinkholes—Buried Alive

2015-01-26 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
> These worldwide geological hazards, which have swallowed highways, apartment > buildings, horses, camels, even golfers, lurk wherever limestone and other > water-soluble rocks underpin the soil. these horrific monsters are caused by human activity, right? Nancy > _

Re: [Texascavers] UT/USS Grotto meeting 2/18!

2015-02-16 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
ah madame vice president. congratulations! I may have to come to a meeting now to celebrate with you. Brigit says you have to turn in your car papers soon. how about a quick trip to bustamonte to do that? when is your spring break? B and I are talking about going to San Antonio for an over

Re: [Texascavers] Soak your rope?

2015-04-14 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
its a really good way to avoid having a long rope soak and shrink itself on a cave trip as happened in Mexico when our brand new first drop rope lost 10 % (as advertised) of its length while we were cave camping. good news was that I headed out early, noticed how little rope was at the bottom

[Texascavers] grapevine cave

2015-07-04 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
wanted - a brief description of cave which is in Burnett Ranches west of Wimberley. darkly, Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ ht

Re: [Texascavers] Mundus Subterraneus

2015-08-18 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
except for the ones that are carved out by daylight > A short summary of cave hydrology: Springs are caused when water that has > drained down to the underground fires is turned to steam, which then rises up > and condenses in hollows inside mountains and drains out as spring water. Nancy_

Re: [Texascavers] Cave underneath Stagecoach Inn :

2015-08-29 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
nice article. Not sensationalized and made a clear connection between caves and aquifer . a blow for intelligence Nancy Weaver ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [Texascavers] used sheet metal roofing up for grab

2015-08-29 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Andy I could use your 6’ leftovers. Nancy On Aug 29, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Andy Gluesenkamp via Texascavers wrote: > I could use 15-20 sheets and will have some 6ft chunks leftover. I can help > load a trailer. > > Sent from my iPhone > ___ Texascav

Re: [Texascavers] cave photography is perilous

2015-09-11 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
you’ve got to wonder what sort of things he has to repel. maybe the really really dark. Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http:/

[Texascavers] cave digger

2015-10-22 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
first I’ve heard of this guy. this would make a great grotto meeting. http://cavediggerdocumentary.com/index.html Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascave

Re: [Texascavers] Spring TSA meeting

2015-12-09 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
boy. I was under the impression that texas cagers were exploring the hell out of texas caves. nancy On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:51 PM, Carl Kunath via Texascavers wrote: > Texas cavers were plodding along > with no such thing until 1956. ___ Texascave

Re: [Texascavers] Rope inquiry

2015-12-11 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
sounds fun. Nancy On Dec 11, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Geary Schindel via Texascavers wrote: > Mark, > > Wanted, a few people for hazardous journey, no wages, bitter cold and wet, > long hours of complete darkness, constant danger, advanced vertical skills > and long hours of training required, mu

Re: [Texascavers] [SWR] public lands encounter

2016-01-04 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
oh those entitled welfare ranchers. time for recreational users to bid on grazing leases and get the damn cows (and ranchers) off public lands nancy weaver ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives

[Texascavers] Fwd: The greatest scientist you've never heard of

2016-03-31 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
If this account of Schultes’s life by Wade Davis isn’t one of the most fascinating stories you’ve ever heard, I’d be very surprised. He was one of the greatest ethno botanical explorers and experimenters. Includes descriptions of the first outside visit to Huautla searching for mushrooms. an

Re: [Texascavers] school kids at TSA Spring Convention

2016-04-02 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Is it possible that calling the host area schools dumb and backwater on a public forum is a bad idea? nancy weaver ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] Off topic Mexico advice

2016-04-06 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Vico’s family dentist in SLP did right by me some years ago. contact off list is you want to go that far south. Nancy Weaver nan...@prismnet.com ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http

Re: [Texascavers] Bittinger-Morris video

2016-05-11 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
limb. Not sure I’ve ever been quite so adrenalized on rope. When the wood gave it swung gently past the roof and we lowered it to the deck. Only damage - a dent in the ridge cap. Nice to be back in harness. Nancy Weaver ___ Texascavers mailing list

[Texascavers] NSS

2016-05-12 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
so glad that I spent my money caving all over Mexico for 18 years and stayed out of politics, building funds and organizations. All to the good Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://

Re: [Texascavers] Old Caving Photo

2016-06-21 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
so who took the picture? nancy > On Jun 20, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Mark Minton via Texascavers > wrote: > > Attached is a photo showing cavers in the Cuetzalan (Puebla, Mexico) > field house in 1980, about 35 years ago. Whom do you recognize? Of those > present, I think only a few are still cavin

Re: [Texascavers] A question and a comment concerning Cass

2016-06-23 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
> Sleaze - I’ll buy you a ticket to washington. Nancy > > intention of punching El Toro in the nose. That did the trick! They turned > and ran while I continued to chase them until I realized how tired I was and > turned back to join my companions. Take that you big bullies! > ___

Re: [Texascavers] Can Locklear please restrain himself !!

2016-07-08 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
why does this keep happening? david posts a few messages, then the inevitable flood of detractors fill up MY inbox. I so prefer Davids and when I’m not in the mood, surprise, I delete them. Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.co

Re: [Texascavers] Astronauts Embark on a Training Mission Deep Beneath the Earth

2016-07-10 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
so for the past 40 years I’ve been a cavenaut. ess. Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texasc

Re: [Texascavers] 1966 convention photos

2016-07-12 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
love that final foto. where is the slab? Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] Trip Report #2 of 50

2016-07-16 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
David balmorrhea probably safest bet. and a nice long weekend trip. try the eleven inn if you can’t stay at the park. nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/

[Texascavers] alternative convention trip report

2016-07-17 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
written by nancy weaver. freely available to anyone who wants to use it. I have a safe predictable job and a safe predictable paycheck/pension/inheritance. I safely and predictably preregister for NSS convention and put it on my calendar. I load my safe and predictable vehicle with more

Re: [Texascavers] alternative convention trip report

2016-07-17 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
my point is not to disparage anyone but to note that in 20 some odd - the odder the better - years of caving, what got talked about around the campfire were the mishaps, the near disasters, the actual disasters narrowly averted, the crazy ones who lived way out on a limb (Boon, Hal Lloyd, and ye

Re: [Texascavers] Locklear made it to the Howdy Party

2016-07-19 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
I get by with a little help from my friends . . . Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascav

Re: [Texascavers] Used vertical gear for sale

2016-08-22 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
congratulations Ben for acknowledging that you are not using the gear, not likely to and getting it back out into the world. I finally reached the decision that it was better for my boats to be used than to sit in my shed. Nancy > n 8/22/2016 11:48 AM, Ben Starr via Texascavers wrote: >> Fellow

Re: [Texascavers] Research finds porcupines are prominent in many south-central Texas caves :

2016-08-26 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
do they shoot bulldozers on sight for attacking trees? that would be refreshing. Nancy > On Aug 26, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Charles Loving via Texascavers > wrote: > > e shot on site out here because of their attack trees. ___ Texascavers mailing list | h

Re: [Texascavers] Test message

2016-11-03 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
I’m thinking the bonfire is more interesting. But I’m a sucker for a happy ending. Nancy If that was the 85 Huautla trip, I was on it. Don’t recall a t-shirt tho. > On Nov 2, 2016, at 11:47 PM, Fritz Holt via Texascavers > wrote: > > OK, David, tell us who he was/ > Is. On second thought,

Re: [Texascavers] 39th Annual Texas Cavers Reunion

2017-02-08 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Not. Just embarrassing and pathetic. Nancy > On Feb 8, 2017, at 8:41 PM, Charles Loving via Texascavers > wrote: > > OK. At least we got an interesting dialogue going. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com

Re: [Texascavers] man-made caverns in the news

2017-02-19 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
cool photo Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] a new cave rescue story

2017-06-03 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
interesting read. My only experiences with people panicking at tight spots that they had previously negotiated, was that the very fear seemed to make them swell up and ‘not believe’ they could go forward. It seemed that all my energy went toward getting them to relax enough to go thru. Laught

Re: [Texascavers] a grotto program suggestion

2017-06-11 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
thanks David. Agreed, and I think cold water at 68 degrees. Nancy > > That's a pretty cool video. Beautiful bedrock in the cave ! > > Jerry. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mai

Re: [Texascavers] Anybody out there still blogging ?

2017-06-21 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
this is the first that has come thru. enjoy your implicite travels. perhaps you could get David Locklear to swing down that way and give you a ride? best, Nancy > On Jun 21, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Sleazeweazel via Texascavers > wrote: > > > The Wandering Weazel has been posting from Belize but

Re: [Texascavers] Road-trip Report No. 5

2017-06-22 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
agreed. keep adventuring. and sharing with people who care about you (tho we might opt not to ride with you) Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@te

Re: [Texascavers] Road-trip Report # 6

2017-06-22 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
doesn’t houston have uber or lyft? ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] another intimate personal story

2017-06-23 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Mallory - so well written and I totally agree. I have zero interest in going to convention any how righteous I feel about the decision as I read David’s travails. I also recall very fondly the ICS in Kerrville when at some banquet or another David set up a golf pitch which added immensely to t

Re: [Texascavers] The real NSS Convention

2017-06-24 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
David, I think you have found your forte. all trip reports should be as imagined. perhaps the pov of the sequoia next? ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texasca

[Texascavers] older cars

2017-06-29 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
I’ve got a 98 Toy Rav4 finally for sale as it has been backup car while I get a CRV up to scratch. 244K all systems in excellent running condition and I expect at least another 100K ( actually based on Honda Civic which I sold for what I paid for it at 300K and another toy truck, I expect doubl

Re: [Texascavers] older cars/correct phone number

2017-06-29 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
oops 512.924.3391 ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers

[Texascavers] upscale cave experience

2017-07-11 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
and then for your trip to granada . . . . Nancy https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3864429?utm_source=airbnb&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BodyIMG2&utm_campaign=20170707_GG_Guest_lowintent_glamping_3_localized&af=1977852&%243p=e_et&%24original_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airbnb.com%2Frooms%2F3864429%3Futm_sour

Re: [Texascavers] Folks, Here is an excellent article on Norm Pace, Caver Extraordinaire and microbiologist.

2017-07-21 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
thanks Geary. that really is a good read. fascinating man. Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinf

[Texascavers] TPWD sign

2017-07-22 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
as someone intimately aware of the placing of that sign, I know exactly why it was done. very much in the spirit of thumbing one’s nose at fences and ownership. Nancy If I recall there is (was) a TPWD boundary sign that was placed by cavers in one of the side passages in Honey Creek Cave were

[Texascavers] seeking Bill Stone

2017-07-22 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Bill, lost your email address and have something I promised to send you Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.

Re: [Texascavers] TPWD sign

2017-07-26 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
but who was taking the photo? and for you younger covers what is that strange red box on my side? nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.co

Re: [Texascavers] CAVERS

2017-08-03 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
eek. nancy > -- > Charlie Loving ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] Pending rain and flooding in Southeastern Texas

2017-08-24 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
Geary what a generous offer. thanks. Nancy ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers

[Texascavers] videos of lockport

2017-08-26 Thread Nancy Weaver via Texascavers
start with aerial. a whole series of amazing videos taken by storm chasers. they remind me of covers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiuJMxrnifI Nancy___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com

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