Gill,
If your replay has to do with Geary’s comments then this isn’t relevant to my reply. It is, however, Bob Thrun, not Thren, who just passed away 2 weeks ago. This was verified by Storrick, who personally drove over and rescued all his caving related items. Wm From: swrcav...@googlegroups.com [mailto:swrcav...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gill Ediger Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 12:56 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com; swrcav...@googlegroups.com Subject: [SWR CAVERS] Re: [Texascavers] Bob Thrun has died Sorry, Charlie, but you're thinking of Bob Thren, not Bob Thrun. --Ediger On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 7:35 AM, Geary Schindel <gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org> wrote: FYI, Geary Folks, Wm Shrewsbury (the NSS President) told Yvonne Droms that Bob Thrun passed away a couple weeks ago. We don't know the date or the exact details, but I understand Bob had been feeling ill (flu) the day before he passed away, and apparently passed away in his sleep. For those who didn't know Bob, he was a longtime caver who was very involved with vertical techniques and cave surveying. He joined the NSS and PSC in 1966. Bob wrote one of the early books on vertical caving techniques, titled Prusiking, in 1971. He had a very extensive collection of historic vertical caving equipment. Bob had a very extensive library of caving books and newsletters and was also the go-to source for material from it. We don't know what happened to his library or his extensive vertical equipment collection. Bob was very involved with cave surveying. He wrote the CMAP computer program, one of the first computer programs to process cave survey data using simultaneous loop closure to handle survey errors. He also helped define and publicize the use of standard cave map symbols. I'm sorry about the rather sketchy information, but it's all I currently know. Bob Hoke -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "varlis...@vt.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to varlist-g+unsubscr...@vt.edu. _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com <http://texascavers.com/> Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Southwestern Cavers of the National Speleological Society" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to swrcavers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to swrcav...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/swrcavers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/swrcavers/1137915255.3694226.1488304573554%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/swrcavers/1137915255.3694226.1488304573554%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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