Oh c'mon, Charles, don't have rock paranoia. I've had my chance to get you and didn't.
Bill Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Charles Goldsmith <wo...@justfamily.org> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:52:50 To: <speleoste...@tx.rr.com> Cc: <jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net>; <fh...@townandcountryins.com>; mark gee<markageetxca...@yahoo.com>; <fr...@frankbinney.com>; <germa...@aol.com>; <texascavers@texascavers.com> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: ICS Amazing Backpack Stories I dunno if he found it or not, he didn't say anything. I'm making a mental note, never to leave any bags unattended around Mr. Steele. Charles On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM, <speleoste...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > Ok, I'll do it. I rocked James Brown last night at the grotto meeting. I even > told him I was going to. I placed two decoy rocks and a well hidden rock in a > pack he had left at our house. He probably found the decoys and didn't look > hard enough to find the third one. Tee hee. > > Bill > > > ---- mark gee <markageetxca...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I to have been Stoned by Steele. I wander who holds the record for , most >> people they have rocked. A story needs to be writen for the Caver. Bill , >> why dont you tell us of your rocky memories. Puns Excepted > > > > >________________________________ > From: "germa...@aol.com" <germa...@aol.com> > To: jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net; wo...@justfamily.org; fr...@frankbinney.com; > fh...@townandcountryins.com > Cc: texascavers@texascavers.com > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:44:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: ICS Amazing Backpack Stories > > > He's not the only one who does this! I've been a victim as well, but since I > collect rocks, it really wasn't a bad thing! > > julia > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John P Brooks <jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net> > To: Charles Goldsmith <wo...@justfamily.org>; Frank Binney > <fr...@frankbinney.com>; Fritz Holt <fh...@townandcountryins.com> > Cc: Texas Cavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> > Sent: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 12:39 pm > Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Re: ICS Amazing Backpack Stories > > > LOL......Lesson learned once again....NEVER LEAVE your back pack ALONE with > Bill Steele for even a NANO-SECOND....or you WILL end up with a rock in your > pack. > > Thats like one of the "TEN COMMANDMENTS of CAVING".... Thou shalt not > trusteth thine pack to the Man O Steele... > > --- On Thu, 7/30/09, Fritz Holt <fh...@townandcountryins.com> wrote: > > >>From: Fritz Holt <fh...@townandcountryins.com> >>Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Re: ICS Amazing Backpack Stories >>To: "Charles Goldsmith" <wo...@justfamily.org>, "Frank Binney" >><fr...@frankbinney.com> >>Cc: "Texas Cavers" <texascavers@texascavers.com> >>Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 12:20 PM >> >> >>Bill Steele has told similar stories and is famous for this. You were just >>one of the "fortunate" recipients. >>Fritz >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Charles Goldsmith [mailto:wo...@justfamily.org] >>Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:34 AM >>To: Frank Binney >>Cc: Texas Cavers >>Subject: [Texascavers] Re: ICS Amazing Backpack Stories >> >>And how long have you known Bill? Caved with him? >> >>Really cool story about the Grand Canyon and your pack though. >> >>Charles >> >>On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Frank Binney<fr...@frankbinney.com> wrote: >>> On 7/29/09 8:46 PM, "Charles Goldsmith" <wo...@justfamily.org> wrote: >>> >>>> So Frank, what's this I hear about you and your extra big backpack? >>>> >>> Actually I had two amazing backpack experiences at ICS: >>> >>> 1) Back in the early 1970s I visited a multiple entrance cave in the >>> Grand Canyon. Technical climbing was required to reach the entrances, >>> and wetsuits were required to negotiate the stream passage deeper >>> inside the cave (which, by the way, had been mapped by Rune and other >>> Texas cavers back in the 1960s). >>> We entered by way of a dry upper entrance, where I stashed the >>> brand-new expensive backpack I had used to transport the wetsuits, >>> rope and climbing gear. Twelve hours later, exhausted from pushing >>> tight leads deep in the cave, we decided to save time by rappelling >>> down to the Colorado River by way of a lower, wet entrance. As dawn >>> light began to illuminate the Grand Canyon, we pushed off down stream >>> in our oar raft and it was shortly thereafter I realized my expensive >>> new backpack remained in that upper entrance. >>> Over the next 35 years, especially when I passed below those cave >>> entrances on numerous Grand Canyon raft trips, I wondered what might >>> have happened to that pack. >>> So imagine my surprise at the ICS banquet when Bob and Debbie Buecher >>> came over and asked if I was missing a backpack. A few years ago Bob >>> was at that particular entrance and noticed a dusty pack stashed on a >>> ledge. He's got it at his home in Tucson and plans to reunite me with it. >>> >>> 2) My other ICS amazing backpack story concerns the charity of my good >>> "friend" Bill Steele. One day I loaded up my backpack with heavy books >>> I planned to mail home (ICS proceedings, Derek Ford's Castleguard >>> book, Bill's Huautla book, a coffee table-sized French caving diving >>> book, the Vertical Bill Cuddington bio, etc.) Unfortunately, the >>> campus mail center was closed when I arrived but Bill Steele >>> graciously allowed me to stash the pack in his truck while he, Diana >>> and I attended the photo salon. >>> Later that night he was kind enough to hand deliver the pack to me in >>> Groad Hollow. As I schlepped the pack across campus to my apartment, I >>> remember thinking how smart I was to be mailing those books home--they >>> weighed a ton and never would have passed airline weight limits. >>> The never morning I struggled to get the heavy pack on my back and >>> made the long walk the length of the campus from the Pecan Grove >>> apartments to the registration building coffee shop. The mail center >>> wasn't open so I carried the pack around most of the day, >>> criss-crossing the campus numerous times for various sessions. >>> Finally I made it to the mail center with the backpack, where upon >>> transferring the contents into Priority Mail cartons I discovered a >>> quite large, beautifully stream-sculpted, authentic Texas karst rock >>> in the bottom of the pack. What a thoughtful gift--Thanks, Bill! >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Visit our website: http://texascavers.com/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com >>For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com >>For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com >> >> > > > > >
