Re: [Texascavers] December CBSP Project Trip Report
Nice report, Kris ! Jerry Atkinson. -Original Message- From: Kris Pena kapkanga...@gmail.com To: texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:31 pm Subject: [Texascavers] December CBSP Project Trip Report Project Dates: December 14 - 15 Volunteers: Kris Peña, Will Quast, Matt Zaldivar, Jeremiah Schoenert, Brendon Brown Total Hours: 47.5 hrs work time + 28 hrs drive time = 75.5 volunteer hours Summary: We had a small trip this month with only 3 people on Saturday and 5 people on Sunday. The cold and rainy weather Friday night must have scared most people away, but it turned out to be a beautiful sunny weekend. On Saturday Kris, Will, and Matt made what could be the last trip into Dog and Butterfly Cave pushing the final leads at the bottom. Sunday, they were joined by new cavers, Jeremiah and Brendon to locate and tag/retag some of the caves in the Upper Gold Mine and Lemon’s Ranch areas of the park. Full Trip Reports: Team 1 (Saturday) Participants: Kris Peña, Will Quast, Matt Zaldivar Time Out: 10:30 AM Time In: 6:00 PM Total Hours: 22.5 work hours Kris and Will woke up Saturday morning to an empty camp. We made breakfast and waited around a little longer than usual to see if all of the other cavers were just very late this month. Matt rescued us when he rolled in just before 10. When it was decided that no one else would be joining that day, the team headed out for another exciting trip to Dog and Butterfly Cave (SAB 197). The goal of this month’s trip was to continue the downstream dig and to climb the dome in the last room to check for possible leads. The wet sticky mud was still at the bottom where we’d left it 12 months ago and promptly covered all team members and their gear. The air quality started to turn south by the bottom of the 3rd drop. After the team reached the 6th room (45 meters underground), Matt set to work on the downstream lead. Will began an aid climb of the dome with a pair of etriers while Kris belayed. Will was able to stick his head into what had appeared to be an upper room from below. However, there was no floor and the hole continued vertical for another 4 meters tapering away into a too small crack. Matt made some progress downstream and confirmed the floor is diggable, but the wet mud and bad air prevented him from making more progress. Looks like Dog and Butterfly will just have to accept being only the 2nd deepest in San Saba County. All team members exited without incident taking several extra pounds of mud out on their clothes and gear. The park’s outdoor shower was turned off because of the possible freeze, so everyone got to go to bed dirty. Team 2 (Sunday) Participants: Kris Peña, Will Quast, Matt Zaldivar, Jeremiah Schoenert, Brendon Brown Time Out: 11:00 AM Time In: 4:00 PM Total Hours: 25 work hours The team went out again on Sunday to check out and tag/retag caves in the Upper Gold Mine and Lemon’s Ranch areas and to give a couple of new cavers who arrived too late to help Saturday a chance to help with the project and peek in some caves. Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day in the park with perfect T-shirt weather. The team first stopped off at Trail KF (SAB 815), a small karst feature on the side of the trail to take a look. They then continued on for a look at Polish Pit (SAB 233). That tag had been swallowed by its tree, so the team set a new tag before moving on. The team then spent a good deal of time attempting to locate Critical Moss Cave (SAB 683). They were unable to locate it or any other exemplary feature anywhere near the currently listed coordinates. This cave has been surveyed recently, so the Garmin file likely needs to be updated with the coordinates in those notes. A future objective is for someone more familiar with that cave to check up on the coordinates. They then continued on to retag Red Gate Cave (SAB 234) as that tag was also nearly swallowed up. They verified that Sump’s Below Cave (SAB 245) had a proper tag and which set of survey notes were most accurate. Finally they stopped at Crystal Crevice (SAB 029) for another retag as that cave had only an older foil tag.
texascavers Digest 7 Jan 2014 15:50:18 -0000 Issue 1910
texascavers Digest 7 Jan 2014 15:50:18 - Issue 1910 Topics (messages 23231 through 23240): Re: Bigfoot 23231 by: Gill Edigar 1996 Toyota Tacoma For Sale 23232 by: Benjamin Schwartz December CBSP Project Trip Report 23233 by: Kris Pena 23239 by: Jerry Longhorn Caverns Geology Tour 23234 by: Geary Schindel Off-trail exploration of Wonder Cave 23235 by: ryan monjaras Caver contacts in Colorado? 23236 by: Bill Bentley Map of Wonder Cave and more info 23237 by: David Wonder Cave : 23238 by: Jerry 23240 by: Mark Minton Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: texascavers-digest-unsubscr...@texascavers.com To post to the list, e-mail: texascavers@texascavers.com -- ---BeginMessage--- There are similar bear scratches in the back of Midnight Cave near Carta Valley. No obvious bear-sized entrance into the cave and no bones. --Ediger On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Louise Power power_lou...@hotmail.comwrote: My sister sent me the following link from the Beaumont paper about the resurgence of black bears in East Texas. http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Black-bears-come-home-to-East-Texas-4793763.php We have them here in Oregon, too. In hard times they wander into the outlying areas around Ashland. I don't remember who said it, but keep your camps clean and your food hanging high to discourage bears from making themselves at home. Just remember, black bears are opportunistic feeders who would much rather find their food in the wild than around people. The majority of their diet is vegetation To find out a lot about black bears, go to the North American Bear Center site: http://www.bear.org/website/ There is a lot on black bear diet on the site today. ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Sad but true folks: I'm selling my wonderful old Toyota truck. See details below, and send me an email if interested (b...@txstate.edu). Feel free to pass this on to anyone in the area who you think might be interested. If you are not local (San Marcos +- 50 miles or so), you would likely need to come and get the truck. I will gladly send photos to anyone who would like to see them. --- For Sale: 1996 4x4 Toyota Tacoma LX, extended cab. 215450 miles. 2.7L 4-cylinder (perhaps one of the best engines ever built by Toyota), Manual 5-speed transmission. ~20 mpg average. Color: Cobalt Blue Pearl. Selling to make room for a 4-door more family accessible Tacoma. Asking $5,000. I am the second owner and have owned the truck since 1998 and ~60k miles. It comes with many great memories included at no extra charge. This vehicle is a great (actually awesome) vehicle for anyone who likes to camp out in their truck. Good Condition: One small spot of rust over left rear wheel well trim, few dings (tree branches on tight muddy mtn. roads), minor front bumper damage (killed a deer). AC (works well), CD, Cassette, AM/FM, Cruise, tilt steering, sliding rear window. Aluminum Rims. BF Goodrich tires with ~75% tread left. Full size spare with good tread. Shocks were replaced at ~180,000 miles. Repairs made within the last 500 miles: New clutch, new radiator, new O2 sensors, and new fuel pressure sensor. May need clutch Master and/or Slave cylinder replaced at some point. Could use new headlight bulbs. Extra leaf added to springs at ~100k miles (these vehicles were under-sprung if you wanted to carry any reasonable load - so this is no longer a problem on this truck). I had this vehicle checked by Toyota several years ago for a vehicle recall related to frame corrosion. The frame is A-OK and was not manufactured at the plant which produced the problem frames. Matching color, locking, 1998 Leonard topper permanently attached to bed rails with SS bolts and Silicone caulk for a dust-free and 100% waterproof interior (no rattling cap or knee-cap ripping clamps to deal with). Interior light and 12V lighter (for power supply in back) installed in topper. Sliding window to match rear truck window. Heavy duty rubber bedliner/matt included. Custom built (by me at the CNC machine shop I used to work in), super sweet, aluminum bedframe with drop-in plywood panels to allow for easy access to things stored under the frame. Bedframe attaches on left side and goes on and off with two bolts. It weighs just a few pounds, but holds all you can pile on it. __ Benjamin Schwartz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biology Texas State University - San Marcos 206 FAB, Freeman Aquatic Station 601 University Drive San Marcos, TX 78666 http://www.bio.txstate.edu/~bschwartz/ b...@txstate.edu office: 1-512-245-7608 ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Project Dates:
[Texascavers] TSS work session
Cavers, Our next scheduled second Wednesday work session of the Texas Speleological Survey will be this Wednesday, January 8th, at the JJ Pickle Research Center in north Austin. We will be looking through the files for various cave locations in Texas, inventorying the Chuck Stuehm collection and working on the museum. Come by and help search the files. If you have a desire to search for your own data, the files and unpublished maps will be made available. Both publication sales and the library will be open. Use the front entrance on Burnet Road north of highway 183. The door will be open at 5:00 p.m. and stay open till we adjourn. Remember it is best to arrive before 6:00 pm and drinks are on me. Parking permits are only necessary during the day and evenings are free, so don’t worry about parking tickets. If you have questions, please contact me at ronra...@austin.rr.com or call my cell. I will be happy to send you a link to the map of the Campus if you need directions or guide you in from the front gate. Ron Ralph Cell: 797-3817
[Texascavers] January Colorado Bend State Park Project
Remember that the TSA Colorado Bend Karst Project is this weekend. If the cold weather kept you away last month, we have good news. *We will be meeting and staying at the Conference Center.* The Conference Center gate should stay locked. The combo to the blue temporary lock is 2287 (spells BATS on a telephone keypad). Plan to arrive before 9:30 am Saturday for the project sign-in. Kitchen space is limited, so email cbsp@gmail.com if you want in on group meals for Saturday breakfast, Saturday Dinner, and Sunday breakfast. Please email if you will be arriving before 9 pm Friday. Also, remember the TSA Winter Business Meeting and TCMA meetings will be happening Sunday morning starting at 8 am.
[DFWgrotto] Fwd: [Texascavers] January Colorado Bend State Park Project
From: Kris Pena kapkanga...@gmail.commailto:kapkanga...@gmail.com Subject: [Texascavers] January Colorado Bend State Park Project Date: January 7, 2014 3:57:23 PM CST To: texascavers@texascavers.commailto:texascavers@texascavers.com Remember that the TSA Colorado Bend Karst Project is this weekend. If the cold weather kept you away last month, we have good news. We will be meeting and staying at the Conference Center. The Conference Center gate should stay locked. The combo to the blue temporary lock is 2287 (spells BATS on a telephone keypad). Plan to arrive before 9:30 am Saturday for the project sign-in. Kitchen space is limited, so email cbsp@gmail.commailto:cbsp@gmail.com if you want in on group meals for Saturday breakfast, Saturday Dinner, and Sunday breakfast. Please email if you will be arriving before 9 pm Friday. Also, remember the TSA Winter Business Meeting and TCMA meetings will be happening Sunday morning starting at 8 am. UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today. ___ DFWgrotto mailing list dfwgro...@dfwgrotto.org http://dfwgrotto.org/mailman/listinfo/dfwgrotto_dfwgrotto.org To unsubscribe: dfwgrotto-requ...@dfwgrotto.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Texascavers] NCRC Seminar at Colorado Bend in February
I've been asked to send out a reminder that there's an upcoming NCRC Cave Rescue Training Seminar Levels 1 and 2 at Colorado Bend State Park on February 8-15. If you're interested, the deadline to sign up is this Friday, January 10. Contact DJ Walker for more information. Check out the NCRC website for more information: http://www.caves.org/commission/ncrc/national/
[Texascavers] Sitting Bull Falls Cave
Seeing all the photos of icicles today, made me recall a very fond memory of going inside Sitting Bull Falls Cave during a cold spell just like this one in 1992. All of the Falls had frozen solid. It was quite a sight to see, but unfortunately I did not have a wide-angle lens to capture it. I would recommend to any caver next time it gets cold like this to go see that.It would have to coincide when there is a good water flow, but I do not know how you would find that out. I found the photo link below, and pretty sure that is it. It looked just like this. http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6181/6144102731_99bc69e60a_z.jpg ( photo posted by a Jim Gumm ) David Locklear - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
