texascavers Digest 14 Feb 2011 17:57:42 -0000 Issue 1246
Topics (messages 17145 through 17165):
Re: OT-fly story
17145 by: Gill Edigar
Chris Vreeland
17146 by: Logan McNatt
17147 by: Chris Vreeland
Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave
17148 by: Geary Schindel
17149 by: Linda Palit
17150 by: ryan monjaras
Ellison's accident
17151 by: Mixon Bill
17152 by: Linda Palit
TSA Spring Convention Photo Salon
17153 by: Don Arburn
underground fiction quiz
17154 by: Mixon Bill
Bretz's flood
17155 by: Mixon Bill
17163 by: Geary Schindel
UT Grotto Meeting - Wed Feb 16
17156 by: Gary Franklin
Re: True Grit
17157 by: tbsamsel.verizon.net
17158 by: John Brooks
deaths in Ellison's
17159 by: Gill Edigar
17160 by: Tim Stich
17162 by: Gill Edigar
Ellison's
17161 by: Mixon Bill
Mystery at Jester Cave!!!
17164 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
17165 by: Fritz Holt
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I don't have any idea what you guys are talking about.
--Ediger
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, wa5pok <mikefur...@att.net> wrote:
> ... and/or arachnids ...
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Rod Goke" <rod.g...@earthlink.net>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:21 AM
> To: "TexasCavers" <texascavers@texascavers.com>
> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT-fly story
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>> Are you sure he didn't actually eat it? Certain cavers have been known to
>> eat larger insects than that. Right, Gill?
>>
>> Rod
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> From: "J. LaRue Thomas" <jlrbi...@sonoratx.net>
>>> Sent: Feb 12, 2011 10:20 AM
>>> To: TexasCavers <texascavers@texascavers.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT-fly story
>>>
>>> My first husband also used to do the fly-catching and
>>> throwing-to-the-ground
>>> thing. For the grandkids he had an interesting sleight-of-hand where he
>>> could make it look like he ate the fly. I never could figure out how he
>>> did
>>> that and he took the secret with him into the next life. Jacqui
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Goke" <rod.g...@earthlink.net>
>>> To: "TexasCavers" <texascavers@texascavers.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 5:58 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT-fly story
>>>
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I'm trying to get in touch with Chris Vreeland. Anyone have his current phone
# and email?
Thanks,
Logan
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Apparently, my pohne # is wrong on the UT Grotto list, for those of
you who care.
It's actually 289-3510.
CV
On Feb 12, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Logan McNatt wrote:
I'm trying to get in touch with Chris Vreeland. Anyone have his
current phone # and email?
Thanks,
Logan
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A TAGNET post noted that there were two fatalities in Ellison's Cave. Here is
the link to an article in the
Chattanooga Times Free Press.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/feb/12/2-found-dead-walker-cave/
Geary
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http://www.jocosarblog.org/jocosarblog/2011/02/ga-bodies-of-two-students-fou
nd-in-ellisons-cave.html
a little more information maybe
From: Geary Schindel [mailto:gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org]
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:40 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave
A TAGNET post noted that there were two fatalities in Ellison's Cave. Here
is the link to an article in the
Chattanooga Times Free Press.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/feb/12/2-found-dead-walker-cave/
Geary
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apparently they got tangled on rope
http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14019138
"Semper Exploro" Ryan MonjarasMaverick GrottoCowtown GrottoDFW GrottoUT
GrottoBexar Grotto(832)754-5778
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:35:37 -0600
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave
http://www.jocosarblog.org/jocosarblog/2011/02/ga-bodies-of-two-students-found-in-ellisons-cave.html
a little more information maybe From: Geary Schindel
[mailto:gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org]
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:40 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Two fatalities in Ellisons Cave A TAGNET post noted that
there were two fatalities in Ellison’s Cave. Here is the link to an article in
the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/feb/12/2-found-dead-walker-cave/ Geary
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If the 125-foot figure in one of those articles is correct, that would
be Warm Up Pit, not 510-foot Fantastic Pit. Good thing for the
recovery crew, if true. I don't recall any waterfall in Warm Up Pit,
but it may depend on the weather. -- Mixon
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I've done Fantastic Pit a few times, and it is a beautiful pit.
One of the times we did it, we did not have enough rope and had a knot about
7m off the floor. I repelled too far on to the knot before attaching gear
to go over, and fought the thing for what seemed like forever, hanging so
close to the ground that I kept thinking I should just body repel down. Of
course, the rack would still be on the knot so it was a stupid thought, and
I did not really consider doing that. Gear and perseverance helped me out of
the jam -- and not for the first time. Crossing knots has never been one of
my favorites.
I am, of course, saddened to hear of the accident and deaths. I have
wondered if we were always just --" careful or lucky?" Both, I think.
Linda
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From: Mixon Bill [mailto:bmixon...@austin.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:40 AM
To: Cavers Texas
Subject: [Texascavers] Ellison's accident
If the 125-foot figure in one of those articles is correct, that would be
Warm Up Pit, not 510-foot Fantastic Pit. Good thing for the recovery crew,
if true. I don't recall any waterfall in Warm Up Pit, but it may depend on
the weather. -- Mixon
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Time to spread the word, dig out those awesome photos, and share them with
Cavers!
Details coming soon!
Don's iPhone.
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While looking for something in 1979 issues of the Windy City
Speleonews, which I edited exactly 100 issues of from 1965 through
1980, I ran into a couple of more or less cave-related things I wrote
back then that might be interesting. The first is this quiz.
Match the following underground things with the authors of the fiction
in which they appeared. Answers in a day or so. Don't broadcast your
answers and spoil it for others.--Mixon
1. an airship
2. albino penguins
3. a ballhog
4. a balrog
5. the giants and titans
6. a metal library
7. Morlocks
8. Tatou
9. the White Rabbit
a. Victor Appleton
b. Norbert Casteret
c. Erich von Daniken
d. Dante Alighieri
e. C. L. Dodgson
f. Harvard Lampoon
g. H. P. Lovecraft
h. J. R. R. Tolkien
i. H. G. Wells
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The cave connection of this second item from the "Windy City
Speleonews" is just J Harlen Bretz. Yes, no period after the J, which
was his full name. I had lunch with him when he was 94 at his house,
Boulderstrewn, in Homewood, Illinois. I happened to drive by, on the
way to the NSS convention in Bellingham, Washington, a few years ago,
the Dry Falls three miles wide, where the state of Washington has a
picnic area and displays. One non-technical source on the falls is http://www.gonorthwest.com/Washington/northeast/Dry_Falls.htm
, although links onward from that page are broken. -- Mixon
Cavers know J Harlen Bretz mainly as the author of "Caves of
Missouri" and coauthor of "Caves of Illinois," which was published
when he was 78 years old. To speleologists, he is best known for his
famous 1942 "Journal of Geology" paper on vadose and phreatic features
of caves. But his geological studies were by no means restricted to
caves, and he is probably best known for (and is most proud of) of
series of papers published between 1923 and 1932 in which he described
the very peculiar geology of a large area in eastern Washington that
he correctly attributed to a catastrophic flood. This theory was
considered outrageous at the time, partly, at least, because it was a
departure from the only recently ascendent geological dogma of
uniformitarianism. But more recent research has fully proved him right.
A lake, called Lake Missoula, was created in western Montana by a dam
of glacier ice in northern Idaho. The lake contained some four hundred
cubic miles of water that were released suddenly when melting caused
the dam to fail. The resulting flood, called the Spokane Flood after
the city presently near the upstream end, scoured nearly three
thousand square miles down to bedrock and created huge canyons and
cataracts, one three miles wide. It deposited gravel bars, some of
which contain boulders several feet in diameter, a hundred feet high
and a mile long, topped with giant current ripple-marks ten feet high.
The water ponded behind the Wallula Gap, through which it poured a
thousand feet deep. The peak flow from Lake Missoula, attested to by
current ripples fifty feet high, has been calculated at twenty million
cubic meters per second. (This is fifteen _cubic miles_ per hour. For
comparison purposes, it is one hundred fifty times the mean flow of
the Amazon River and ten or twenty times the total average flow of
fresh water into the oceans of the world.) In a few days, it was all
over.
(Actually, there were a good number of such floods, as the ice dam
reestablished itself. Note added 2011.)
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Bill,
Thanks for a most interesting email. As you pointed out, Bretz is/was a pretty
famous guy among geologists for much more than his work on caves. Neat that
you took the time to look him up and meet with him in person. I'm sure that he
appreciated it. I think I have an original copy of his book on the Washington
State Scablands somewhere. Actually, I think there may have been two bigger
floods in geologic history, the flooding of the Mediterranean Sea after the
Straights of Gibraltar were breached (many hundreds of thousands of year ago?)
and also the flooding of the Black Sea with the Dardanelles were breached. The
later one is thought by some to have been witnessed by early humans and may
account for the oral tradition about a great flood, later recounted in some
religious texts. I don't know about the size of the Lake Bonneville Flood from
the Great Salt Lake that swept over the Snake River Plane into northern Idaho.
Anyway, some of the youngsters that have had historical geology may be able to
expand on that.
Geary
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From: Mixon Bill [mailto:bmixon...@austin.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:29 PM
To: Cavers Texas
Subject: [Texascavers] Bretz's flood
The cave connection of this second item from the "Windy City
Speleonews" is just J Harlen Bretz. Yes, no period after the J, which
was his full name. I had lunch with him when he was 94 at his house,
Boulderstrewn, in Homewood, Illinois. I happened to drive by, on the
way to the NSS convention in Bellingham, Washington, a few years ago,
the Dry Falls three miles wide, where the state of Washington has a
picnic area and displays. One non-technical source on the falls is
http://www.gonorthwest.com/Washington/northeast/Dry_Falls.htm
, although links onward from that page are broken. -- Mixon
Cavers know J Harlen Bretz mainly as the author of "Caves of
Missouri" and coauthor of "Caves of Illinois," which was published
when he was 78 years old. To speleologists, he is best known for his
famous 1942 "Journal of Geology" paper on vadose and phreatic features
of caves. But his geological studies were by no means restricted to
caves, and he is probably best known for (and is most proud of) of
series of papers published between 1923 and 1932 in which he described
the very peculiar geology of a large area in eastern Washington that
he correctly attributed to a catastrophic flood. This theory was
considered outrageous at the time, partly, at least, because it was a
departure from the only recently ascendent geological dogma of
uniformitarianism. But more recent research has fully proved him right.
A lake, called Lake Missoula, was created in western Montana by a dam
of glacier ice in northern Idaho. The lake contained some four hundred
cubic miles of water that were released suddenly when melting caused
the dam to fail. The resulting flood, called the Spokane Flood after
the city presently near the upstream end, scoured nearly three
thousand square miles down to bedrock and created huge canyons and
cataracts, one three miles wide. It deposited gravel bars, some of
which contain boulders several feet in diameter, a hundred feet high
and a mile long, topped with giant current ripple-marks ten feet high.
The water ponded behind the Wallula Gap, through which it poured a
thousand feet deep. The peak flow from Lake Missoula, attested to by
current ripples fifty feet high, has been calculated at twenty million
cubic meters per second. (This is fifteen _cubic miles_ per hour. For
comparison purposes, it is one hundred fifty times the mean flow of
the Amazon River and ten or twenty times the total average flow of
fresh water into the oceans of the world.) In a few days, it was all
over.
(Actually, there were a good number of such floods, as the ice dam
reestablished itself. Note added 2011.)
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Howdy Caver,
You are cordially invited to attend the Underground Texas Grotto meeting. We
have new Officers to help guide us through the 60th year of our
organization.
Underground Texas Grotto meeting February 16, 2011
The meeting is on Wednesday from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall
NOTE: THE ROOM NUMBER CHANGE to 2.48 PAI
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
Dr. Todd R. Kincaid, GeoHydros, will present – Mapping & Modeling Underwater
Caves & Application to Groundwater Management. Todd has been working with a
team of researchers and explorers to understand karstic groundwater flow to
Wakulla Spring in North Florida. Understanding the flow of water into and
through this delicate hydrogeologic system helps to guide the management of
this valuable natural and vital resource .
http://research.gg.uwyo.edu/kincaid/3dcave.htm<http://webmail.austin.rr.com/do/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.gg.uwyo.edu%2Fkincaid%2F3dcave.htm>
Come check out some of his awesome footage of the Florida underworld
collected while advancing the knowledge of a highly specialized system.
For information on Underground Texas Grotto activities, please see
www.utgrotto.org All of our information including officer contact info,
trips reports, new caver training, event calendar, and posting links to
beginner trips or vertical rope training are available.
Before the meetings, we sometimes meet at Sao Paulo www.saopaulos.net for
a happy hour special. 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
The UT Grotto needs you, the caver with photos and a story to share about
your adventures, scientific research, or something else really cool. Contact
Gary
Sincerely,
Gary Franklin
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Read the book. Then I want a 10 page essay, single spaced in 9 point Times Roman or Garamond. Footnotes should be MLA compatible.
Feb 2, 2011 09:56:23 PM, dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:
In response to the pine tree root scene in the cave,
I meant to say that it would not be common for a small
pine tree to have a vine-like root like the one in the movie 30 feet
deep in a pit, but
feel free to correct me on that. And there were not any trees in the vicinity
of the pit, that I recall.
What would have made more sense would have been for the girl to fall through
an indian trap and then into the cave with scary indian stuff in it.
After all, they were in Choctaw country
and there was not a scene in the movie showing a Choctaw tribe or
anything related to what their major fear as they started the journey.
It would have been more interesting had the cave been a large chamber decorated
with speleothems. And the dead guy in the cave, should have been
a miner or something more interesting, than a dusty set of bones
filled with rattlers.
( at first glance the snakes when they were coiled up, looked more
like tropical snakes )
Another spoiler,
Mattie had her father's gun for several days, but waited till the bad
gunslinger showed up
and confronted him with it before she ever bothered to learn how to
even hold it.
David Locklear
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As the cave in the movie is adjacent to an escarpment.....the tree could have
been much less distance away....should we request a clarification from the Coen
Brothers?
I might add.... The offending root in question may have come from a different
tree....I don't think there is a "pine tree root" label on the aforementioned
root.
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On Feb 14, 2011, at 7:28 AM, tbsam...@verizon.net wrote:
> Read the book. Then I want a 10 page essay, single spaced in 9 point Times
> Roman or Garamond. Footnotes should be MLA compatible.
>
>
> Feb 2, 2011 09:56:23 PM, dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:
> In response to the pine tree root scene in the cave,
>
> I meant to say that it would not be common for a small
> pine tree to have a vine-like root like the one in the movie 30 feet
> deep in a pit, but
> feel free to correct me on that. And there were not any trees in the vicinity
> of the pit, that I recall.
>
> What would have made more sense would have been for the girl to fall through
> an indian trap and then into the cave with scary indian stuff in it.
> After all, they were in Choctaw country
> and there was not a scene in the movie showing a Choctaw tribe or
> anything related to what their major fear as they started the journey.
>
> It would have been more interesting had the cave been a large chamber
> decorated
> with speleothems. And the dead guy in the cave, should have been
> a miner or something more interesting, than a dusty set of bones
> filled with rattlers.
> ( at first glance the snakes when they were coiled up, looked more
> like tropical snakes )
>
>
> Another spoiler,
>
>
> Mattie had her father's gun for several days, but waited till the bad
> gunslinger showed up
> and confronted him with it before she ever bothered to learn how to
> even hold it.
>
> David Locklear
>
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Here's a local news video about the deaths in Ellisons Cave
http://www.newschannel9.com/video/?videoId=788983595001&lineupId=1137849423
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I was under the impression that they fell, but another news report cited
hypothermia. They were in shorts and t-shirts one guy being interviewed
mentioned.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Gill Edigar <gi...@att.net> wrote:
> Here's a local news video about the deaths in Ellisons Cave
>
>
> http://www.newschannel9.com/video/?videoId=788983595001&lineupId=1137849423
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Seems one was on rope (up or down???) in a water fall and got in some
kinda trouble and the other one rigged a second rope and rappelled to
help. The ropes got tangled and neither of them had the expertise to
climb (or rappel) under those conditions. Both were wearing minimal
clothing--shorts and T-shirts according to the report--instead of wet
suits which are indicated for Warm-up Pit.
--Ediger
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Tim Stich <timstic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was under the impression that they fell, but another news report cited
> hypothermia. They were in shorts and t-shirts one guy being interviewed
> mentioned.
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Gill Edigar <gi...@att.net> wrote:
>>
>> Here's a local news video about the deaths in Ellisons Cave
>>
>>
>> http://www.newschannel9.com/video/?videoId=788983595001&lineupId=1137849423
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A quote from that TV news video about the Ellison's accident: "A
tragedy that will last a lifetime." Some people should avoid
cameras.... -- Mixon
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Went caving this past weekend with Bill Steele and Diane Tomchick at
Jester Cave in SW OK this past weekend and had a blast!
We were joined by my lovely daughter-in-law, Brandi Alman and her friend
Jennifer, the SMU Outdoor club, several DFW Grotto cavers, and a Boy
Scout Troop.
A great, wet, muddy, cold time was had by all and we enjoyed the
camaraderie and a TON of hibernating bats were observed, with no WNS
evident!
A great mystery has ensued, however and Sherlock Holmes may need to be
called in!
While unloading my gear yesterday and disinfecting it and what not, I
was shocked to find not one, but, two rather sizeable rocks in my cave
pack!
How did they get there and what twisted and demented soul could possibly
perform this dastardly act of geological treachery upon an innocent,
balding 51 YO, such as myself?!
Your help in apprehending this deviant and helping to solve this mystery
will help make the world a safer place and allow us to eradicate, once
and for all, the act of rocking packs!
Thanks for your support!
(Tongue firmly placed in cheek and the newest proud member of the "I've
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A great, wet, muddy, cold time? Sounds like an oxymoron to me. As for the
mystery, it will probably never be solved and the problem never eradicated.
However, a feeble attempt could be made by putting a zipper on cave packs with
a lock, a la American Tourister luggage. This may thwart all but the man of
steel. Reminds me of a really cool song, "Rock Your Baby".
Fritz
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Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 11:35 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Mystery at Jester Cave!!!
Went caving this past weekend with Bill Steele and Diane Tomchick at Jester
Cave in SW OK this past weekend and had a blast!
We were joined by my lovely daughter-in-law, Brandi Alman and her friend
Jennifer, the SMU Outdoor club, several DFW Grotto cavers, and a Boy Scout
Troop.
A great, wet, muddy, cold time was had by all and we enjoyed the camaraderie
and a TON of hibernating bats were observed, with no WNS evident!
A great mystery has ensued, however and Sherlock Holmes may need to be called
in!
While unloading my gear yesterday and disinfecting it and what not, I was
shocked to find not one, but, two rather sizeable rocks in my cave pack!
How did they get there and what twisted and demented soul could possibly
perform this dastardly act of geological treachery upon an innocent, balding 51
YO, such as myself?!
Your help in apprehending this deviant and helping to solve this mystery will
help make the world a safer place and allow us to eradicate, once and for all,
the act of rocking packs!
Thanks for your support!
(Tongue firmly placed in cheek and the newest proud member of the "I've Been
Rocked" Club) Mark
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