texascavers Digest 4 Mar 2012 15:56:50 -0000 Issue 1509

2012-03-04 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 4 Mar 2012 15:56:50 - Issue 1509 Topics (messages 19662 through 19666): Monthly Reminder: SWR 50th Anniversary, !!! IMPORTANT DATES !! 19662 by: Stephen Fleming WOAI Robber Baron Cave story 19663 by: joe-evelynn.satx.rr.com nice article on recent

[Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Jim Kennedy
Courtesy of Tom Iliffe. See the next-to-last paragraph for updated long and deep stats. http://www.admfoundation.org/projects/phantom/phantomcave.html -- Jim

Re: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread caverarch
Fine article, indeed! Roger G. Moore -Original Message- From: Jim Kennedy jkenn...@batcon.org To: CaveTex texascavers@texascavers.com; Allan Cobb a...@kihikihi.com; Andy Gluesenkamp a...@gluesenkamp.com; Ann Scott mayaca...@mail.utexas.edu; Bill Russell whruss...@gmail.com; Butch

Re: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Mark Minton
Agreed. Nice that the cave moved up in the long and deep cave lists, although they must have been using an out-of-date deep list, since at the old depth of 24 m it would have been nowhere near 65th, but rather less than 126th, the limit of the list at

RE: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Ron Ralph
And while we are nit-picking, it is not the Texas Speleological Society but rather the TEXAS SPELEOLOGICAL SURVEY. There is no Texas Speleological Society to my knowledge. Ron Ralph, President TSS -Original Message- From: Mark Minton [mailto:mmin...@caver.net] Sent: Sunday, March 04,

RE: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Butch Fralia
Good catch Ron. I double checked the depth in the database to see if I'd messed up the depth on the website. It's indeed 24m. The last updates on the cave, I derived from Bill Tucker's Survey notes plotted in Walls after instruction from David McKenzie on dive surveys in Walls. Butch Fralia

[TCMA-List] Special Election Update

2012-03-04 Thread Saj Zappitello
Howdy Cavers, Just a reminder that the TCMA Special Election is occurring right now to fill the thirteenth director position created by the new bylaws. You should have already received an email from electioncl...@tcmacaves.org. Your candidates for this election are Jim Crash Kennedy or the

[Texascavers] Special Election Update

2012-03-04 Thread Saj Zappitello
Howdy Cavers, Just a reminder that the TCMA Special Election is occurring right now to fill the thirteenth director position created by the new bylaws. You should have already received an email from electioncl...@tcmacaves.org. Your candidates for this election are Jim Crash Kennedy or the

[SWR] Child found in hole in Carlsbad

2012-03-04 Thread Steve Peerman
Does anyone know anything more about this from Carlsbad? BREAKING: Child found in hole could be missing boy (9:15 a.m.) Posted: 03/04/2012 09:11:45 AM MST Searchers have found a child in a deep hole adjacent to the backyard from which 4-year-old Samuel Jones disappeared Saturday, but they

Re: [SWR] Child found in hole in Carlsbad

2012-03-04 Thread Aaron Stockton
Evidently he was found in an old well in a neighbors yard on the south side of town. He disappeared out of his backyard supposedly yesterday. There have been plenty of rumors on whether he is indeed alive or not. Children are tough in situations like this (remember baby jessica?) But I'm sure

[Texascavers] UT Grotto Meeting - Wed March 7

2012-03-04 Thread Gary Franklin
Howdy Caver, You are cordially invited to attend the Underground Texas Grotto meeting Wednesday March 7, 2012 from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. 2.48 Painter Hall University of Texas Campus (156 West 24th Street, Austin TX 78712) http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html For more

[Texascavers] O-9 Well trip report - March 03, 2012

2012-03-04 Thread David Ochel
Howdy, This weekend saw a continuation of last month�s upstream re-survey in O-9 Well. On Saturday, after having coffee with the ranching lessee, Andrea Croskrey, Ben Hutchins, Heather Levy, David Ochel, and Seth Spoelman started entering the cave around 11 am, with the objective to close a

texascavers Digest 4 Mar 2012 15:56:50 -0000 Issue 1509

2012-03-04 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 4 Mar 2012 15:56:50 - Issue 1509 Topics (messages 19662 through 19666): Monthly Reminder: SWR 50th Anniversary, !!! IMPORTANT DATES !! 19662 by: Stephen Fleming WOAI Robber Baron Cave story 19663 by: joe-evelynn.satx.rr.com nice article on recent

[Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Jim Kennedy
Courtesy of Tom Iliffe. See the next-to-last paragraph for updated long and deep stats. http://www.admfoundation.org/projects/phantom/phantomcave.html -- Jim

Re: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread caverarch
Fine article, indeed! Roger G. Moore -Original Message- From: Jim Kennedy jkenn...@batcon.org To: CaveTex texascavers@texascavers.com; Allan Cobb a...@kihikihi.com; Andy Gluesenkamp a...@gluesenkamp.com; Ann Scott mayaca...@mail.utexas.edu; Bill Russell whruss...@gmail.com; Butch

Re: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Mark Minton
Agreed. Nice that the cave moved up in the long and deep cave lists, although they must have been using an out-of-date deep list, since at the old depth of 24 m it would have been nowhere near 65th, but rather less than 126th, the limit of the list at

RE: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Ron Ralph
And while we are nit-picking, it is not the Texas Speleological Society but rather the TEXAS SPELEOLOGICAL SURVEY. There is no Texas Speleological Society to my knowledge. Ron Ralph, President TSS -Original Message- From: Mark Minton [mailto:mmin...@caver.net] Sent: Sunday, March 04,

RE: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Butch Fralia
Good catch Ron. I double checked the depth in the database to see if I'd messed up the depth on the website. It's indeed 24m. The last updates on the cave, I derived from Bill Tucker's Survey notes plotted in Walls after instruction from David McKenzie on dive surveys in Walls. Butch Fralia

[TCMA-List] Special Election Update

2012-03-04 Thread Saj Zappitello
Howdy Cavers, Just a reminder that the TCMA Special Election is occurring right now to fill the thirteenth director position created by the new bylaws. You should have already received an email from electioncl...@tcmacaves.org. Your candidates for this election are Jim Crash Kennedy or the

[Texascavers] Special Election Update

2012-03-04 Thread Saj Zappitello
Howdy Cavers, Just a reminder that the TCMA Special Election is occurring right now to fill the thirteenth director position created by the new bylaws. You should have already received an email from electioncl...@tcmacaves.org. Your candidates for this election are Jim Crash Kennedy or the

[SWR] Child found in hole in Carlsbad

2012-03-04 Thread Steve Peerman
Does anyone know anything more about this from Carlsbad? BREAKING: Child found in hole could be missing boy (9:15 a.m.) Posted: 03/04/2012 09:11:45 AM MST Searchers have found a child in a deep hole adjacent to the backyard from which 4-year-old Samuel Jones disappeared Saturday, but they

Re: [SWR] Child found in hole in Carlsbad

2012-03-04 Thread Aaron Stockton
Evidently he was found in an old well in a neighbors yard on the south side of town. He disappeared out of his backyard supposedly yesterday. There have been plenty of rumors on whether he is indeed alive or not. Children are tough in situations like this (remember baby jessica?) But I'm sure

[Texascavers] UT Grotto Meeting - Wed March 7

2012-03-04 Thread Gary Franklin
Howdy Caver, You are cordially invited to attend the Underground Texas Grotto meeting Wednesday March 7, 2012 from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. 2.48 Painter Hall University of Texas Campus (156 West 24th Street, Austin TX 78712) http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html For more

[Texascavers] O-9 Well trip report - March 03, 2012

2012-03-04 Thread David Ochel
Howdy, This weekend saw a continuation of last month�s upstream re-survey in O-9 Well. On Saturday, after having coffee with the ranching lessee, Andrea Croskrey, Ben Hutchins, Heather Levy, David Ochel, and Seth Spoelman started entering the cave around 11 am, with the objective to close a

texascavers Digest 4 Mar 2012 15:56:50 -0000 Issue 1509

2012-03-04 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 4 Mar 2012 15:56:50 - Issue 1509 Topics (messages 19662 through 19666): Monthly Reminder: SWR 50th Anniversary, !!! IMPORTANT DATES !! 19662 by: Stephen Fleming WOAI Robber Baron Cave story 19663 by: joe-evelynn.satx.rr.com nice article on recent

[Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Jim Kennedy
Courtesy of Tom Iliffe. See the next-to-last paragraph for updated long and deep stats. http://www.admfoundation.org/projects/phantom/phantomcave.html -- Jim

Re: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread caverarch
Fine article, indeed! Roger G. Moore -Original Message- From: Jim Kennedy jkenn...@batcon.org To: CaveTex texascavers@texascavers.com; Allan Cobb a...@kihikihi.com; Andy Gluesenkamp a...@gluesenkamp.com; Ann Scott mayaca...@mail.utexas.edu; Bill Russell whruss...@gmail.com; Butch

Re: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Mark Minton
Agreed. Nice that the cave moved up in the long and deep cave lists, although they must have been using an out-of-date deep list, since at the old depth of 24 m it would have been nowhere near 65th, but rather less than 126th, the limit of the list at

RE: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Ron Ralph
And while we are nit-picking, it is not the Texas Speleological Society but rather the TEXAS SPELEOLOGICAL SURVEY. There is no Texas Speleological Society to my knowledge. Ron Ralph, President TSS -Original Message- From: Mark Minton [mailto:mmin...@caver.net] Sent: Sunday, March 04,

RE: [Texascavers] nice article on recent exploration in Phantom Springs Cave

2012-03-04 Thread Butch Fralia
Good catch Ron. I double checked the depth in the database to see if I'd messed up the depth on the website. It's indeed 24m. The last updates on the cave, I derived from Bill Tucker's Survey notes plotted in Walls after instruction from David McKenzie on dive surveys in Walls. Butch Fralia

[TCMA-List] Special Election Update

2012-03-04 Thread Saj Zappitello
Howdy Cavers, Just a reminder that the TCMA Special Election is occurring right now to fill the thirteenth director position created by the new bylaws. You should have already received an email from electioncl...@tcmacaves.org. Your candidates for this election are Jim Crash Kennedy or the

[Texascavers] Special Election Update

2012-03-04 Thread Saj Zappitello
Howdy Cavers, Just a reminder that the TCMA Special Election is occurring right now to fill the thirteenth director position created by the new bylaws. You should have already received an email from electioncl...@tcmacaves.org. Your candidates for this election are Jim Crash Kennedy or the

[SWR] Child found in hole in Carlsbad

2012-03-04 Thread Steve Peerman
Does anyone know anything more about this from Carlsbad? BREAKING: Child found in hole could be missing boy (9:15 a.m.) Posted: 03/04/2012 09:11:45 AM MST Searchers have found a child in a deep hole adjacent to the backyard from which 4-year-old Samuel Jones disappeared Saturday, but they

Re: [SWR] Child found in hole in Carlsbad

2012-03-04 Thread Aaron Stockton
Evidently he was found in an old well in a neighbors yard on the south side of town. He disappeared out of his backyard supposedly yesterday. There have been plenty of rumors on whether he is indeed alive or not. Children are tough in situations like this (remember baby jessica?) But I'm sure

[Texascavers] UT Grotto Meeting - Wed March 7

2012-03-04 Thread Gary Franklin
Howdy Caver, You are cordially invited to attend the Underground Texas Grotto meeting Wednesday March 7, 2012 from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. 2.48 Painter Hall University of Texas Campus (156 West 24th Street, Austin TX 78712) http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html For more

[Texascavers] O-9 Well trip report - March 03, 2012

2012-03-04 Thread David Ochel
Howdy, This weekend saw a continuation of last month�s upstream re-survey in O-9 Well. On Saturday, after having coffee with the ranching lessee, Andrea Croskrey, Ben Hutchins, Heather Levy, David Ochel, and Seth Spoelman started entering the cave around 11 am, with the objective to close a