Re: [Texascavers] Sierra Madres related

2017-12-01 Thread MJ Gibbs via Texascavers
Pardner, I hate to be the one to break the news to you, especially because I only know you from these emails but here it is. You can't find that logging road because it no longer exists. You won't be able to find anything following instructions laid to paper 40 to 50 years ago because there are

Re: [Texascavers] Sierra Madres related

2017-12-01 Thread Charles Loving via Texascavers
Poor Bockbeer. I drive to those place even today in my two wheel drive piece of crap Ford and have nary a problem. Bock wants tomake everything more dramatic. Hell my Mazada car could make it most places I go in the Sierra del Burro. I even cross creeks. Bock is somewhat of a drama queen. Soon to

Re: [Texascavers] Tentative road-trip

2017-12-01 Thread Charles Loving via Texascavers
Lots of ticks at El Abra On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Mark Minton via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > Those are pretty ambitious goals for a guy who hasn't done much caving > lately, especially vertical. Even getting to either of those would take > significant effort and

[Texascavers] Sierra Madres related

2017-12-01 Thread David via Texascavers
>From David Locklear Below is just some opinions and thoughts about YouTube videos related to things that sparked my interest this week. I am just reminiscing here. Background: In December of 1985, I fell in love with the east face of the Eastern Sierra Madres.

Re: [Texascavers] A TRIBUTE TO BOCKBEER

2017-12-01 Thread James Jasek via Texascavers
Really funny Sent from my iPhoneiPhone On Dec 1, 2017, at 8:28 AM, Charles Loving via Texascavers wrote: The game the five caver dogs are playing is "BARK". Whenever something moves anywhere-a leaf in the wind, a bird flying by, a triceratops charging out of

Re: [Texascavers] Tentative road-trip

2017-12-01 Thread Mark Minton via Texascavers
Those are pretty ambitious goals for a guy who hasn't done much caving lately, especially vertical. Even getting to either of those would take significant effort and time. Both are long drops. Good luck! Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net On Thu, 30 Nov, 2017 at 4:38 PM, David via Texascavers

[Texascavers] A TRIBUTE TO BOCKBEER

2017-12-01 Thread Charles Loving via Texascavers
*The game the five caver dogs are playing is "BARK". Whenever something moves anywhere-a leaf in the wind, a bird flying by, a triceratops charging out of the garage-the first one to bark gets five points. The second one to bark gets four points, the third barker gets three points and so on.