I didn't know John Cooper personally, but a couple of years ago we made a connection between a couple of caves in Burnsville, Virginia and found his NSS number and others carbided on the wall near the connection point. We looked them up and remarkably most of those old-timers were still alive and remembered the cave. John was surprised we had made the connection, which they knew was close but was out of reach until modern technology for widening came on the scene. He helped us identify one of the other people whose NSS number we had found. John died in 2015, as Ediger pointed out last fall.
Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net On Mon, July 11, 2016 7:44 pm, Mixon Bill via Texascavers wrote: > Definitely John Cooper, but I think maybe the guy in the striped shirt is > Don Cournoyer. > -------------- > Speaking of Cooper, his caving memoirs should be out before too long. I > did some editing and the design and layout of the 362-page book. NSS > tentatively to publish it. Title is "Cave of the Boa Constrictors." _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
