texascavers Digest 6 Mar 2013 14:14:21 -0000 Issue 1716
Topics (messages 21365 through 21373):
Sketcher needed for a 4 day trip this weekend.
21365 by: Andrea Croskrey
Message
21366 by: Bill Bentley
NSS Webinar coming up next week!
21367 by: NSS Announcements
Robotic bat wing reveals flight secrets of bats
21368 by: Lee H. Skinner
Vampire Bats Feed on Baby Penguins
21369 by: Lee H. Skinner
Movie about Jews hiding in a Ukraine cave during WWII soon to be released
21370 by: Speleosteele.aol.com
UT Grotto Meeting Wed March 6, 2013
21371 by: Andrea Croskrey
NaturFest update
21372 by: David
Tom Florer
21373 by: Tom Florer
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Hi Texas Cavers,
I would like to have another sketcher for our trip to Three Fingers Cave
this weekend. This cave is in the Guadalupe Mountains on the Lincoln
National Forest in New Mexico. The trip is vertical, has a steep hike to
the cave at elevations around 6500ft, and the sketching could possibly in
breakdown or very large room. The drive is about 10 hours from Austin. We
are leaving Friday March 8th and returning on Monday March 11 with about
8-10 hour caving days on Saturday and Sunday. The cave is beautiful and
you'll get to cave with fun people! Please email me at acroskrey at gmail
dot com if you think you could help us out.
Cavingly,
Andrea Croskrey
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Can anyone help?
Hey Bill,
I'm a TAG caver and a geology student at Tennessee Technological University.
I'm in a class that is going on a field trip to the Permian Basin. During this
field trip we will make stops at Mckittric Canyon, Guadalupe Mountain, and
Carlsbad Caverns. I was wondering if you knew anyone who might give a group of
7 geology students/cavers a good explanation of the geology of Carlsbad Caverns
when we stop there.
Happy Caving,
Jordan Sachs.
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Please join us for our 7th NSS Webinar on Monday, March 11th.
9pm Eastern (8pm Central, 7pm Mountain, 6pm Pacific)
"Use of Geophysics to Detect Solutional Features in Karst Terrains."
Presenter: Ron Green
Ron is a Hydrogeologist with the Southwest Research Institute, San
Antonio, Texas and is active in the characterization, modeling, and
groundwater management of karst aquifers. He was the principal
investigator of a development project to design, build and deploy a
neutrally buoyant sensor to remotely map the pathway and morphology of
karst conduits. The invention earned an R&D 100 Award as one of the
top 100 innovations in 2009 as recognized by R&D Magazine.
"Ron is one of those rare individuals who combine a keen intellect,
sound business sense and genuine concern for society and the
environment," said Dr. Wesley Patrick, vice president of the
Institute's Geosciences and Engineering Division. "Holding the rank of
Institute scientist, the highest professional rank at SwRI, he readily
shares his expertise in geology and hydrology with more junior members
of our staff, as well as mentoring and serving on graduate committees
of university students."
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/349950535
Title: "Use of Geophysics to Detect Solutional Features in Karst Terrains."
Date: Monday, March 11, 2013
Time: 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Central Time. Please check your time zone.
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Mac®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer
Mobile attendees
Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android? phone or Android tablet
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A robotic bat is helping to understand how bats fly:
http://tinyurl.com/ake8vjy
Lee Skinner
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Including a video:
http://tinyurl.com/ao42xo7
and how vampire bat saliva could reduce strokes:
http://tinyurl.com/3emkb3h
Lee Skinner
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Cavers who attended the Houston party hosted by Louise Hose and Paul Dye
following the 2009 International Congress of Speleology will remember the
riveting slide show by New York caver Chris Nicola about a cave in the Ukraine
that Jews hid out in over a year during WWII. A movie about it has been
made and here is the trailer.
_http://www.noplaceonearthfilm.com/the-film/about-the-film/_
(http://www.noplaceonearthfilm.com/the-film/about-the-film/)
Bill Steele
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Howdy Texas Cavers,
This week we get to hear about a new trip from a long time caver! Terry
Raines will be sharing pictures and stories from his latest adventure to
South America.
UT Grotto meeting - Wednesday from 7:45PM- 9:00PM
University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall (156 West 24th Street,
Austin TX 78712) http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
For information on Underground Texas Grotto activities, please see
www.utgrotto.org
Before the meeting, take advantage of Sao Paulo www.saopaulos.net for
happy hour specials. This area is the best place to park and meet folks
walking over to the meeting. Then after the official meeting, we continue
with the decades long tradition to reconvene for burgers, beer, and tall
tales of caving at Posse East. www.posse-east.com
Cavingly,
Andrea Croskrey
UT Grotto Vice Chair & Program Organizer
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For me, NaturFest has already started. Things have to get done between now
and Saturday morning. I was at the campground yesterday at sunset,
and hiked around for an hour
just trying to see what the priorities were.
The grass was perfect. There were no flying insects. The
number of trees that
are dead is really heart-breaking. There are dead limbs all over
the place. You could
fill up an 18-wheeler with fire-wood. The scenic creek that flows
through the park was so
bone dry, that it looked like a Jeep road. This should make for
some interesting hiking for the
kids, as it is kind of like a tiny canyon and completely different
from the surrounding topography.
One could probably explore for 10 miles through this creekbed, but it
might be trespassing.
I didn't see any poison-ivy, or snakes, so the kids should be able to
runaround without too much
worry.
I have a PDF file of the event insurance that we purchased if anybody
would like to take a look
at it. It would be very helpful to us if someone who understands
such things could go over it
and tell us what is lacking with the policy.
I was so excited about this date when the land-owner finally agreed to
it. But unfortunately,
he agreed so late, that there wasn't enough time to send out
invitations. Most people already
have Spring Break plans by now.
Anyone is welcome to arrive Friday night after 8 p.m., but there won't
be anything organized. You will be
on your own to find someone to socialize with or to find your
camp-spot. I will be trying to
decide whether to set-up the temporary swimming pool, or some other
chore. I am going to
try to get off work Friday, but that is impossible to predict.
Some way I need to be the first on the
property if people show up on Friday and that is why it is so
important to contact me in advance.
There is a ton of stuff to do near the campground. Just 6 miles
away is a pub called
the White Horse Tavern. There is also an amusement park with
activities for kids, and a movie
theater, playing "Jack the Giant Slayer," and maybe "Oz the
Wonderful." Brenham has a great restaurant
downtown called the Longhorn Saloon. I will not be doing any of
that this trip. I hope to be relaxing in
my hammock and staring at the constellations in the sky by midnight.
This is an excellent event for the cavers whose bones no longer allow
them to go caving.
One thing I don't have, which would come in handy, is a good chain-saw
and a way to haul the
wood around camp.
We have extra camping gear in storage near the camp. I plan to
sleep out under the stars.
NaturFest Association is NOT providing meat for the cookout.
I do ask that anyone coming from points west of Brenham, to stop at
Burton Sausage Company
and pick up your own meat for the grill.
http://www.burtonsausage.com/
And those travelling from points east of Brenham to
stop at Chappel Hill Sausage Company:
http://www.chsausage.com/
I can smell it all cooking now.
There is a vegetable farm near the entrance to Happy Hollow Road.
At the moment, he
only has leafy vegetables that you pick yourself. So you could
make a delicious farm
fresh salad if you wanted.
For me personally, I wish NaturFest were a multi-day event. But I
just can't take off work any
more than I already have. I would stay at Camp Happy Hollow the
entire Spring Break if
I could afford to.
Some of you might be able to relate to the landowner's sentiment.
He will be glad when I am
off his property and he won't have to hear me mention the word
NaturFest for another year. He
has been dealing with me for nearly 10 years now I think, so he
deserves some sort of an
award. I am working on that too. Last year, we only gave him a
Stanley coffee thermos, but he
deserves something nice.
David Locklear
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Tom Florer
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