Yeah, right. Does anybody really believe this?
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:43:09 -0400
> From: speleoste...@tx.rr.com
> To: wo...@justfamily.org
> CC: texascavers@texascavers.com; jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net;
> markageetxca...@yahoo.com; fh...@townandcountryins.com;
> fr...@frankbinney.com; germa...@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: ICS Amazing Backpack Stories
>
> Ok, all y'all can relax now. I've quit rocking packs. The pinnacle of my
> rockin' career was Frank Binney
> last week and James Brown this week. I'm going to quit now. So, you don't
> need to guard your packs. Don't
> practice "rock paranoia" in other words.
>
> Bill
>
> ---- Charles Goldsmith <wo...@justfamily.org> wrote:
> > 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!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
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