Re: [Texascavers] new deep cave
Dos Bocas in Puerto Rico is not quite a float. A group of us Texas covers did that with some PR cavers as guides. On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:43 PM David wrote: > A lot of non-caving people probably have no idea that there are lots of > deep caves in the remote wildernesses. In fact, there are several already > mapped in far southernmost Alaska, and Idaho and the Canadian province of > British Columbia. > > The deepest limestone caves and deepest vertical caves of North America > are in that region. > > I can't name any of them off the top of my head, but they are on the > various deep caves list. > > I would bet some Canadian cavers already had been in this cave, or at > least ridge-walked around that specific range and probably back in the 80's. > > There is a deeper lava cave, but the lava tube passage is less than a few > meters below the surface. > > > Sidenote: > > I took Geology 101 at A in 1985 and caver Tom Byrd was my T.A. He took > me to "Midnght Cave" in Carta Valley. We camped on the old Triangle with > avout ten C.V.S.S. folks. I had met them once at my first TCR in New > Braunfels, or at the precious Spring Convention at Inner Space Caverns. > > I forgot most of that, but Jon Everage was there, and I got to know him. > > We all sat around the campfire in The Triangle. I had hitchiked from > College Station to Austin to meet Tom.But I think Gil or Bill Elliot or > both took me back to Austin to hitch-hike home to College Station, or maybe > that was a 2nd trip, as I think I may have "possibly" I done that twice. > I had done a remarkable amount of hitch-hiking by 1987, when I began my > futile work on "The SpeleoStationwagon." I only have a blurry picture of > that vehicle up near Joya de Salas in the El Cielo area of The Sierra > Madres. Anyways, that all started rumors about me being crazy, that > eventually got way too exaggerated around the caver-campfire.I was just > very naive and uninformed, just like all of the hikers that recently made > the tragic news in Peru, Morocco, and Mexico. I was just lucky and never > encountered trouble. > > > Another sidenote: > > It was really great to see the C.V.S.S. pose for a group photo last year. > I felt I could understand at least a itsy-bitsy tiny bit some of their > comradery and memories at least of the one reunion they had there in The > Triangle. That might of been early spring of 86. Either way, I knew a > lot of speleo-stuff for a novice caver - just enough to be over-confident > and dangerous - lacking true experience. > > Now in almost 2019, I am way too out of shape and would be even more > likely to be clumsy and accident-prone. My next cave will involve floating > downstream on a large inner-tube with a life-jacket in tropical stream. > Hopefully that will be in 2020 in Puerto Rico or Cuba or southern Mexico. > > D.L. > ___ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > -- Charlie Loving ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
Re: [Texascavers] [SWR CAVERS] Visit this new cave, face $1 million dollar Fine
Thanks Lee. Regards, John -Original Message- From: swrcav...@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Lee H. Skinner Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 12:58 PM To: New Mexico Cavers ; Texas Cavers Subject: [SWR CAVERS] Visit this new cave, face $1 million dollar Fine https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-cave-bc-canadas-biggest-closed-trespass-1.4952367 https://www.vancourier.com/news/bc-parks-threatens-1-million-fine-as-it-closes-off-star-wars-cave-1.23548906 Wow! Lee Skinner -- 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/682a030d-4ef1-5db3-4786-3adcadfa935f%40thuntek.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
Re: [Texascavers] new deep cave
A lot of non-caving people probably have no idea that there are lots of deep caves in the remote wildernesses. In fact, there are several already mapped in far southernmost Alaska, and Idaho and the Canadian province of British Columbia. The deepest limestone caves and deepest vertical caves of North America are in that region. I can't name any of them off the top of my head, but they are on the various deep caves list. I would bet some Canadian cavers already had been in this cave, or at least ridge-walked around that specific range and probably back in the 80's. There is a deeper lava cave, but the lava tube passage is less than a few meters below the surface. Sidenote: I took Geology 101 at A in 1985 and caver Tom Byrd was my T.A. He took me to "Midnght Cave" in Carta Valley. We camped on the old Triangle with avout ten C.V.S.S. folks. I had met them once at my first TCR in New Braunfels, or at the precious Spring Convention at Inner Space Caverns. I forgot most of that, but Jon Everage was there, and I got to know him. We all sat around the campfire in The Triangle. I had hitchiked from College Station to Austin to meet Tom.But I think Gil or Bill Elliot or both took me back to Austin to hitch-hike home to College Station, or maybe that was a 2nd trip, as I think I may have "possibly" I done that twice. I had done a remarkable amount of hitch-hiking by 1987, when I began my futile work on "The SpeleoStationwagon." I only have a blurry picture of that vehicle up near Joya de Salas in the El Cielo area of The Sierra Madres. Anyways, that all started rumors about me being crazy, that eventually got way too exaggerated around the caver-campfire.I was just very naive and uninformed, just like all of the hikers that recently made the tragic news in Peru, Morocco, and Mexico. I was just lucky and never encountered trouble. Another sidenote: It was really great to see the C.V.S.S. pose for a group photo last year. I felt I could understand at least a itsy-bitsy tiny bit some of their comradery and memories at least of the one reunion they had there in The Triangle. That might of been early spring of 86. Either way, I knew a lot of speleo-stuff for a novice caver - just enough to be over-confident and dangerous - lacking true experience. Now in almost 2019, I am way too out of shape and would be even more likely to be clumsy and accident-prone. My next cave will involve floating downstream on a large inner-tube with a life-jacket in tropical stream. Hopefully that will be in 2020 in Puerto Rico or Cuba or southern Mexico. D.L. ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] Visit this new cave, face $1 million dollar Fine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-cave-bc-canadas-biggest-closed-trespass-1.4952367 https://www.vancourier.com/news/bc-parks-threatens-1-million-fine-as-it-closes-off-star-wars-cave-1.23548906 Wow! Lee Skinner ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
