texascavers Digest 3 May 2013 21:30:46 -0000 Issue 1748
Topics (messages 21685 through 21695):
Re: Movie Times for Austin - No Place On Earth;
21685 by: Matt Zaldivar
Re: new 3D survey technology, very fast
21686 by: John Greer
Rock Art Foundation tour to Devils River, June 1st
21687 by: Logan McNatt
NSS board elections advice?
21688 by: Frank Binney
Re: Interstate 69
21689 by: Mimi Jasek
caves in cartoons
21690 by: David
El S�tano del Barro
21691 by: David
caving gear for first Mars trips
21692 by: David
21693 by: Herman Miller
LAST REMINDER - It's a Cinco de Mayo Longhorn Project Weekend! -Saturday, May
4th
21694 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
Free gas grill
21695 by: Amy Jasek
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I know but if I have to work on Saturday I can't go into Austin to see the
movie Friday night.
________________________________
From: Leslie Bell <bellem...@yahoo.com>
To: "lmcn...@austin.rr.com" <lmcn...@austin.rr.com>; Texas Cavers
<texascavers@texascavers.com>; UT Grotto <2231736...@groups.facebook.com>; Matt
Zaldivar <manto...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Movie Times for Austin - No Place On Earth;
Matt Z - please note the movie is playing here in Austin on FRIDAY (not
Saturday).
Christopher and I are tentatively planning on 7:50 or 10:20...
Leslie Bell
--- On Wed, 5/1/13, Matt Zaldivar <manto...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>From: Matt Zaldivar <manto...@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Movie Times for Austin - No Place On Earth;
>To: "lmcn...@austin.rr.com" <lmcn...@austin.rr.com>, "Texas Cavers"
><texascavers@texascavers.com>, "UT Grotto" <2231736...@groups.facebook.com>
>Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 7:36 AM
>
>
>Anyone planning on going to the 7:50 or 10:20 shows? Provided I don't have to
>work on Saturday I will be going to one of these.
>
>
>Matt Zaldivar
>512-913-6169
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Logan McNatt <lmcn...@austin.rr.com>
>To: Texas Cavers <texascavers@texascavers.com>; UT Grotto
><2231736...@groups.facebook.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:00 PM
>Subject: [Texascavers] Movie Times for Austin - No Place On Earth;
>
>
>
>Thanks to Christopher Francke for finding this link with the movie times for
>the Austin showing on Friday May 3rd.
>
>
>For Gill and others wondering "Where the doodah is the Great Hills", they are
>in a mythical place called the Arboretum in North Austin, which is across the
>Great River and far far away from the place where you and I live, called South
>Austin.
>
>http://www.fandango.com/regalarbor8greathills_aaeuj/theaterpage?date=5/3/2013
>No Place On Earth
1hr 24min Show Times
------------
12:20p
2:50p
5:20p
7:50p
10:20p
>
>
>
>
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www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/hand-held-3D-laser-mapping-system-used-to-explore-aboriginal-caves/318016
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From: David
To: Cavers Texas
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:49 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] a new survey technology
http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/04/30/reuters-tv-laser-powered-zebedee-springs-into-actio?videoId=242557454&videoChannel=118065
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This tour is a rare opportunity to see two impressive pictograph sites--Cedar Springs and Mystic Shelter-- on the Devils River that are on
private land and closed to the general public. You will also have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the cool, clear waters of the river as
you wade across it twice. I highly recommend this tour for anyone interested in rock art and/or has never seen the Devils River. Special
access to spectacular countryside, pictographs, and river for only $35! You will need 4WD and have to be in good enough shape for a fairly
long, hot hike, so be sure to check out the details at the Rock Art Foundation website.
http://www.rockart.org/news/index.cfm?newsid=150
Note: I am not a member of the RAF (but plan to join), and am providing this
information because I think a lot of cavers will be interested.
Logan
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Just got my ballot for the NSS Board of Directors election. Does anyone have
any thoughts or endorsements of particular candidates?
Of course, I'll make my own decisions after weighing feedback but it never
hurts to hear what other cavers have to say about potential or current NSS
directors.
Thanks,
Frank
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Way to go girl! Me too!!!
Hilarious!
Sent from my iPhone
On May 1, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Amy Jasek <amylouis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If anyone cares to steal 2 I'd like one please
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 1, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Oztotl <d...@oztotl.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark, please explain WHY these signs are stolen.
>>
>>
>>> From: mark.al...@l-3com.com
>>>> Date: May 1, 2013, 5:23:23 AM PDT
>>>> To: Gill Edigar <gi...@att.net>, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: Cavers Texas <texascavers@texascavers.com>
>>>> Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Interstate 69
>>>>
>>>> How long until the signs start getting stolen?
>>>>
>>>> Colorado had a highway with the same number going west out of Durango in
>>>> the SW corner of the state in the early 2000’s.
>>>>
>>>> Signs kept getting stolen.
>>>>
>>>> Number change soon afterwards.
>>>>
>>>> It’ll happen here, too. :}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: bgillegi...@gmail.com [mailto:bgillegi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
>>>> Gill Edigar
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 6:58 AM
>>>> To: David
>>>> Cc: Cavers Texas
>>>> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Interstate 69
>>>>
>>>> It's supposed to go to the Rio Grande Valley, not Laredo--well, maybe a
>>>> branch to Laredo. But the primary destination is supposed to be the Pharr
>>>> Bridge.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:03 AM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I was driving in northeast Houston today, ( which is an area of town a
>>>> tourist should avoid ), and the old US Hwy 59, is now marked I-69 north of
>>>> Loop 610, at least to the northern edge of Harris County.
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69
>>>>
>>>> While this is currently totally irrelevant, east Texas cavers will someday
>>>> ( in 10 years ? )
>>>> take I-69 to go caving in Arkansas, Indiana, or to Bustamante, N.L.,
>>>> Mexico.
>>>>
>>>> The last time I was south of Houston on Hwy. 59, the signs still read
>>>> "Future I-69"
>>>>
>>>> I am not aware of any ongoing highway construction anywhere along this
>>>> route.
>>>>
>>>> I have not been to Laredo in a year, but I bet very soon, you will see
>>>> signage or new roads
>>>> related to Interstate 69.
>>>>
>>>> David Locklear
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ref:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.i69texasalliance.com/news.html
>>>>
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This is 7 years old, but I just found out.
The video clip in the link below is a short scene from a cartoon episode of
"South Park."
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103671/cave-in-of-the-winds
I advise that you stop watching it after the tour-guide says, "Lets go
caving !"
After the 32 second advertisement, there is a 2 1/2 minute cartoon of
a tour-guide giving a few tourist a trip thru Cave of the Winds. The
tour-guide seems cool, but the speleothems are dumbed-down to be
humorous to 11 year old boys.
Unfortunately, the cartoonist work is ruined by really lame humor.
Sadly, there is probably some 11 year old out there, that got their
first lesson about caves from watching this video in 2006, and they are now
18 and wanting to go caving.
On a related note,
In 17 more years, the U.S. could have a president that grew up watching
every episode of South Park over and over again.
David Locklear
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I have not heard anything about this cave in years, so I thought I would do
some web-surfing.
Here is what I found:
http://www.wondermondo.com/Countries/NA/Mexico/Queretaro/SotanoBarro.htm
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3tano_del_Barro
There is not an English Wikipedia page, and if you click to translate
somethings get lost
in the translation.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7087/7184816210_21bf592b4c_c.jpg
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=21.310706&lon=-99.666746&z=18&m=b&permpoly=11748482
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ZVriQqj0r0/UKLDRGajtAI/AAAAAAAAEeo/Ksqn5Rh_D0M/s640/SKYSCRAPERLIFE+PUNTOCOM.jpg
It looks like ecotours are taking the general public to the edge of the pit:
http://hockingphotography.smugmug.com/keyword/sotano%20del%20barro#!i=497763611&k=FtZrNGM
I did not find anything on the web about recent caving in the pit.
David Locklear
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This must be some kind of Chinese proto-type device.
http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/0c007070a24611e2950322000a1fcea7_7.jpg
Maybe NASA engineers are secretly working with them to develop this
super-high-tech
caving light.
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I tested a prototype similar to this a few years ago which consisted of a
modular LED light which could be seperated into different configurations
including a "marker" light. Of course this product was never mass produced
I found it more hassle then anything. While this product does have legs to
help position and hold the light on the rock it looks to be much less of a
light.
On Thursday, May 2, 2013, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This must be some kind of Chinese proto-type device.
>
http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/0c007070a24611e2950322000a1fcea7_7.jpg
>
> Maybe NASA engineers are secretly working with them to develop this
super-high-tech
> caving light.
>
>
>
>
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I'll be heading out shortly, so I thought I'd send out the last reminder
(yeah!).
If you're coming out this weekend and, more importantly, coming out
TONIGHT, I need to hear from YOU!
I need to give you the gate combo, if you don't have it, as it's a long
way from Park Road 4 to the camping area and I don't answer the truck
after I go to bed! :-)
The weather looks to be fantastic, the fajitas will be tasty, and the
beer will be cold!
Hope to see a lot of you out there for the final project weekend till
the Fall!
Thanks,
Mark
P.S. - We will be doing an ultra-secret double probation trip Saturday
afternoon, one that we haven't done in about a year, so come on down and
see what that's all about!
_____________________________________________
From: Alman, Mark @ ESG - WSS - IRP
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 10:04 AM
To: 'texascavers@texascavers.com'; 'Metroplexcavers'; 'DFWgrotto'
Cc: 'Mark Alman'
Subject: REMINDER - It's a Cinco de Mayo Longhorn Project Weekend!
-Saturday, May 4th
Ay carumba!
Just a reminder that it's time, once again, for the Longhorn Caverns
State Park Project, and danged if it doesn't fall on Cinco de Mayo
weekend!
In celebration, I will be bringing a bunch of beef fajita meat and my
chef's hat.
Any other goodies and beverages you want to bring are most welcomed. I
will have plates, napkins, and utensils.
This will be the last project weekend of the year until October, so come
on out!
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Greetings caver family - I have an old gas grill that's free to anyone who's
handy & can come get it. The grill top that you cook on is rusted & the tubes
the gas comes out of underneath also need replacing (they are broken) but I'm
sure you can get new parts for cheaper than the cost of a whole new one. It's a
Charmglow, 4 burners on the grill & a side burner. If anybody's interested let
me know!
Amy
Sent from my iPhone
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