texascavers Digest 11 Dec 2013 16:40:55 -0000 Issue 1896 Topics (messages 23147 through 23152):
Re: [SWR] Jewel Cave
23147 by: Mark Minton
Jewel Cave
23148 by: dirtdoc.comcast.net
Link to NSS Bookstore Holiday Greetings
23149 by: Jacqueline Thomas
CBSP December Project This Weekend
23150 by: Kris Pena
Google Street View related
23151 by: David
Re: 2013 Conservation Activities Needed
23152 by: Geary Schindel
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--- Begin Message ---Nice article, but the author isn't very good at math: >Austin, 29, and the team, found the first of 2,047 new feet of unexplored cave passage � over two-thirds of a mile. 2047 feet is less than half a mile! Mark On Sun, December 8, 2013 11:45 am, Lee H. Skinner wrote: > If you have trouble with Dwight's link, try this one: > http://tinyurl.com/nzbft8c -Lee >> >> Jewel Cave >> >> A rather nice article on Jewel Cave today (Sunday 8 Dec 2013) in the >> Rapid City Journal. >> >> http://web.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/jewel%20cave%20article%20-%20rc%20journal%20dec%208%202013.pdf?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=640314&part=2 >> >> DirtDoc
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--- Begin Message ---Most of the readers aren't either ------ (I wonder if their grammar is as good as mine?) DirtDoc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Minton" <mmin...@caver.net> To: s...@caver.net, texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 11:03:54 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Re: [SWR] Jewel Cave Nice article, but the author isn't very good at math:
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--- Begin Message ---All, The flyer from the NSS Bookstore is now on the TSA Homepage: http://www.cavetexas.org/ Click on the thumbnail for a larger image. Below the thumbnail is a link to the NSS Bookstore. Butch Fralia very kindly set this up so I wouldn't have to send it out on the remailer. Thanks, Butch! Jacqui
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--- Begin Message ---The next Colorado Bends State Park Project is this weekend. There's no better place to spend a cold Saturday than below ground! Most cavers show up Friday evening and camp out. All survey teams will be organized and sent out of camp by 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Camping is again available on Saturday evening with the possibility of more caving on Sunday morning. If you have your own Garmin GPS, please bring it so that you have an easier time finding the caves. For more information check out the project info sheet<http://www.cavetexas.org/PDF/CBSP/TSA_CBSP_project_info_sheet%202013.pdf> or the schedule on the TSA calendar <http://cavetexas.org/calendar/index.php>. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Kris Peña and Will Quast TSA-CBSP Project Coordinators
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--- Begin Message ---I am sure this is old news, but I thought I would post it for those in Texas that don't have time to follow everything on the web. You can now drive thru the town of Bustamante ( on the main road only ) up to the entrance of the canyon virtually on the internet, using Google Maps. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bustamante,+Nuevo+Leon,+Mexico&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=26.533251,-100.52516&spn=0.050298,0.077162&sll=31.168934,-100.076842&sspn=12.298661,19.753418&oq=Bustamante+Nue&t=h&hnear=Bustamante,+Nuevo+Le%C3%B3n,+Mexico&z=14&layer=c&cbll=26.534663,-100.528917&panoid=4KXfVF0FB-65ETsPCkZP1w&cbp=12,292.12,,1,0.05 On a related note, it will also let you drive through nearly every road of the border towns, except inside of restricted areas like Boystown. ( I haven't heard of any cavers going there in 20 years ) In the fall of 84, I accompanied 5 other inexperienced Aggie cavers to Bustamante. All the knowledge amongst us that we had about Mexico was a crude hand-drawn map in a Texas Caver issue, of the border-town of Nuevo Laredo. Texas cavers today have access to a wealth of information on how to plan their road-trip into Mexico, and additional border-crossings, and better gasoline, than we had. Yet when was the last organized trip to Grutas del Precipico or Minas Viejas by cavers from Texas ? David Locklear
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--- Begin Message ---2013 Conservation Activities Needed The NSS needs your input. Each year the NSS must file an application with the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) in order to qualify to be listed in the CFC donation database. The hardest part of the application is to document the nationwide NSS Conservation activities. Please take just two or three minutes and send Scott Fee (scottfee at bellsouth dot net) an email that includes the following: 1) State the activity took place 2) Closest City or the County 3) 2013 Date (Prefer month, day and year) 4) Very Brief description. Example: California, Orange County, May to July 2012: Over 20 members removed dozens of large trash bags of litter and rusting metal from xxxx cave, sinkhole, river, stream, or highway. Ideally, please include how many volunteers and what you did. Any statistics like number of bags, hours spent, truckloads of debris, etc. are a welcome addition. That is it! Shouldn't take two minutes to convey where, when, and what! This will help the NSS Document caver conservation activities throughout 2012 in the USA! Established in 1961, the CFC is the largest workplace charity campaign in the country and the only campaign authorized to solicit and collect contributions from federal employees in the workplace. Through this effort, nearly four million federal employees and military personnel are able to contribute to the organizations of their choice during the annual charity drive, which runs from September 1 through December 15. Please distribute this in any caver related forum.<<attachment: winmail.dat>>
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