texascavers Digest 4 Apr 2010 05:43:15 -0000 Issue 1017
Topics (messages 14316 through 14323):
New Zealand style caving
14316 by: David
Re: Bob Mitchell on Sotano de Huitzmolotitla 1958]
14317 by: Nancy Weaver
apologies
14318 by: Nancy Weaver
any Honeycreek update ?
14319 by: David
14320 by: Don Arburn
14321 by: caverarch.aol.com
Re: Confirmed: Missing link a caver
14322 by: Gill Edigar
14323 by: John Greer
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The video below is mainly a helicopter video, but shows how
cavers get to and from a cave known as "Bohemia Cave."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzXqoSt9to
Bohemia Cave is in the Mount Owen Karst Area of the South Island of
New Zealand. It was
discovered in 1990 by members of the Czech speleological club
Alberice. A large cavity was discovered
in Bohemia Cave and its mineralogy was briefly summarised in T´asler
(1998). The cavity
itself was called “Dream of Alberice Cavers” and measures
approximately 80m wide by 650m
long which puts it in the list of large caverns by world standards.
According to T´asler, most of
the ceiling, walls and floor of this cavern are covered with aragonite
speleothems of various sorts
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Hi rene - a couple of fun stories from oldtimers . . . I seem to
recall that you arent on cavetex.
cheery spring, Nance
The following article about the Jumar and the man who invented them
appeared in the Fall 1970 issue of the Southwest Texas State
University Grotto Newsletter.
THE JUMAR FACTORY by Brian Peterson
This summer while traveling in Switzerland, Keith Heuss
and myself decided that we would try to locate the factory in which
Jumar ascenders are manufactured. After examining our Jumars, we
finally found a label still intact and managed to pick out the name
of a town, Reichenbach, Switzerland. After about two hours of
looking over a map, we located a tiny dot symbolic of the town.
Quickly we jumped in the Volkswagon camper and proceeded to look for
it.
Could this small town be the home of a great factory?
The name of the town did correspond to the name on the Jumar, but
there were only about thirty chalets. We stopped at a store and I
got out with a Jumar. Speaking no German, I proceeded to wave my
arms, roll my eyeballs, and shove the Jumar in the proprietors face.
He quickly got the idea and sent me on my way down the road.
However, he did provide us with a map.
Obviously, he was somewhat less than proficient in the
arts of geography because by using his map we got completely
confused. We decided that we would ask the help of other locals.
After talking to several housewives; many of whom thought we were
trying to sell them the Jumar, we arrived at still another chalet. I
knocked at the door and a man came out. When I showed him the
Jumar and asked if he knew what it was, he replied, "Yes, I make
them." Quietly picking myself off the ground, I began to explain why
we had come. The man, Julius Marte, was very receptive and asked us
inside. He speaks only a few words of English so he called a friend
to translate. When the friend arrived we went down to the factory
which is in Mr. Marte's basement. Jumar parts were everywhere! Wow!
Fantastic!
Mr. Marte opened a drawer approximately three feet long,
two feet wide, and one and one-half foot deep. It was completely
filled with right-hand Jumar jaws. He said that he originally
designed these ascenders for use in climbing down to eagle nests to
band baby eagles. This was back in 1958. Mountain climbers quickly
saw the value of these devices and then later cavers started using
them. The recent change in the alloy of the cams was necessary due
to the grit and mud encountered in caves.
We rigged a rope in his yard and showed him various
methods of prussiking with his devices. He then showed us the method
which is enclosed with the Jumars. He saw the value of our methods
but joked with us by saying, "I can understand why you don't know how
to use them, I have never translated the instructions to English."
We all laughed. We also demonstrated various rappell devices and Mr.
Marte was quite interested. He requested that we collect and send
him pictures of different climbing methods using his ascenders and
any recommendations or improvements that we may have.
Sotano_de_Huitzmolotitla.doc
Description: MS-Word document
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for sending to whole list. If you missed those stories the first
time around they are worth reading.
Nancy
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I am posting this at 3 p.m., Saturday.
Are the divers out yet ?
Are haulers in the cave bringing tanks out yet ?
I am stuck in Fort Bend County. I couldn't make it.
David Locklear
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Fine. They just exited. 830 feet straight, no change. Pencils no good.
No survey, Hand line only. 17 still in. One exited shortly after Jean
& James, 5 mil suit - overheated. Ellie went back in this morning. All
is well.
Don's iPhone.
On Apr 3, 2010, at 3:09 PM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am posting this at 3 p.m., Saturday.
Are the divers out yet ?
Are haulers in the cave bringing tanks out yet ?
I am stuck in Fort Bend County. I couldn't make it.
David Locklear
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Great news, Don. I hope there's plenty of beer and food for the haulers, both.
Roger
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From: Don Arburn <donarb...@mac.com>
Cc: Cavers Texas <texascavers@texascavers.com>
Sent: Sat, Apr 3, 2010 3:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] any Honeycreek update ?
Fine. They just exited. 830 feet straight, no change. Pencils no good. No
survey, Hand line only. 17 still in. One exited shortly after Jean & James, 5
mil suit - overheated. Ellie went back in this morning. All is well.
Don's iPhone.
On Apr 3, 2010, at 3:09 PM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am posting this at 3 p.m., Saturday.
Are the divers out yet ?
Are haulers in the cave bringing tanks out yet ?
I am stuck in Fort Bend County. I couldn't make it.
David Locklear
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From: Cheryl Jones <cheryl.ca...@verizon.net>
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Subject: Confirmed: Missing link a caver
To: siv...@listserv.vt.edu
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/7550033/Missing-link-between-man-and-apes-found.html
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Since Malapa and the other sinkholes and caverns around Sterkfontein were
leopard dens and not habitation sites, and especially since the "skeleton"
is made up of pieces of several small individuals, I suspect it would be
better to say that the "missing link" is actually lots of pieces of scat --
food sources puttering around on the surrounding plains.
For anyone visiting the area, the main caves and the lab are open to
visitation and are worth the effort.
john
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From: Gill Edigar
To: Cavers Texas
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 11:09 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] Fwd: Confirmed: Missing link a caver
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From: Cheryl Jones <cheryl.ca...@verizon.net>
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Subject: Confirmed: Missing link a caver
To: siv...@listserv.vt.edu
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/7550033/Missing-link-between-man-and-apes-found.html
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