texascavers Digest 6 Mar 2011 08:32:58 - Issue 1259
Topics (messages 17296 through 17303):
Re: cave books
17296 by: Jim Kennedy
17297 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
17298 by: Fritz Holt
Rock Snot on my ol' felt shoes OT
17299 by: Aimee Beveridge
Re: Grottos
That wouldn't beBear Grylls' cat by any chance, would it?
;-)
Rod
-Original Message-
From: Louise Power
Sent: Mar 5, 2011 7:49 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: [Texascavers] Cat snatches bat out of the air
I'm not sure why this was shot sideways.
Although I like and support solo caving by properly experienced and thinking
cavers, there was that horrible and tragic case of the guy in Black Cave,
Arizona, about 10 years ago who went solo caving (without telling anyone his
intentions) and his trapped body wasn't found for something like six
Forewarded by Mixon:
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From: JohnandSusy Pint ranchop...@yahoo.com
List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: March 5, 2011 1:07:29 PM CST
To: ranchopint hotmail ranchop...@hotmail.com
Subject: Toscano's Cave
Hello Cavers!
We found a strange cave on the shore of Lake
texascavers Digest 7 Mar 2011 01:12:04 - Issue 1260
Topics (messages 17304 through 17306):
Re: Cat snatches bat out of the air
17304 by: Rod Goke
Solo caving
17305 by: Louise Hose
Re: Toscano's Cave
17306 by: Mixon Bill
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I've heard that argument before:
Occifer, I pay your salary, so lemme outta here!
Who is the jailer serving if he lets you out, you (a taxpayer) or the rest of
us
(also taxpayers)?
Andy
I appreciate the valuable job the BLM does in protecting natural and
I think this is old news, but I don't remember if anybody has mentioned it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nw0RZ8yzK0,
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Here is a new video ( from Croatian cavers ) showing how to ascend up
a rope while crossing a stuck caver,
and putting their load on you and changing over and rappelling back
down with the rescued caver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOk1rruXbwg
It can be viewed in 720p, and has good
The video below shows some Italians studying the effects of
a fall on a rope as the belayer would experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqRgoEdrR50
It is a 30 minute video.
The first series of test uses a Munter Hitch knot on
a pear shaped carabiner.
The photo categories for this year are:
1. Print (Black White, Color)
2. Digital (Black White, Color)
Each photographer is limited to 2 entries per category. There will be prizes
and ribbons awarded to winners.
The Photo and Map Salon will be set up inside the Service Center. You can
bring
Even notice how WNS has become an all-purpose reason, just like
9/11? And of course we all agree with everything the government has
done about 9/11. -- Mixon
If a thing is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well.
Any time that a body of people (government or otherwise) is faced with an
imminent crisis that they don't really understand, and no one can give them
unequivocal guidance as to how to handle it, they will usually opt for a
conservative action plan that often appears muddled in hindsight.
Hello Texas Cavers!
TSA Spring Convention is almost here! You are invited to join the Texas
Speleological Society and fellow Texas cavers for a relaxing weekend in the
unique oasis and National Register Historic District of Fort Clark Springs.
The TSA, founded in 1956, has been brining Texas
RD,
Humans are the most likely vector for having brought WNSto this continent.
If that is the case, then I would consider cave-to-cave transmission of WNS to
be a serious possibility.
Andy
Andrew G. Gluesenkamp, Ph.D.
700 Billie Brooks Drive
Driftwood, Texas 78619
(512) 799-1095
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