Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

to set up a similar > service but only for US cave-related organization's publications. Since > the scanned newsletters are already in place on KIP, transferring those to > that new "local" portal would seem to be a pretty simple process, and the > collection could reside be

[Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

George, According to the Karst Information Portal home page, grotto newsletters are soon to be withdrawn from open access. That seems like addressing the potential problem of location information with a sledgehammer. What's the point of having things on KIP if no one can get to them? Maybe they

Re: [Texascavers] another bad file for old Texas Caver

Again, that bad issue is the same as the one in the TSA Members area. I don't know who posted those bad issues first, but apparently one site got them from the other. In the case of the December 2002 issue, the erroneous numbering actually began with the previous issue. October, 2002 was called

Re: [Texascavers] NPR TED talk - Bill Stone

That's a rerun of an old TED talk. The original appeared in July, 2013. Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net On Wed, December 3, 2014 11:07 am, Roger Moore \(cavera...@aol.com\) via Texascavers wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Anh Woodmansee > > Bill Stone just featured on NPR talk on ca

Re: [Texascavers] revised file for old Texas Caver

Thanks, Bill. The copy of that issue of Texas Caver in the Members Area of the TSA web site is the same as KIP's. They may have taken their copy from TSA. Hopefully George can send them a good paper copy for proper scanning by their method. Mark On Wed, December 3, 2014 11:53 am, Mixon Bill vi

Re: [Texascavers] mystery cave near Ocampo, Tamps.

Thanks, Bill. I do have Vasquez in the deep pit list. There's a write-up (including map) about the cave in AMCS Activites Newsletter 14, pp. 36-39 (1984). I had considered that as one possibility for the mystery cave, but the fiasco trip wasn't mentioned in that article. Mark On Fri, November

Re: [Texascavers] mystery cave near Ocampo, Tamps.

I checked my list of Deep Pits of Mexico and it does not have an entry corresponding to this cave, unless the depth given for the entrance pit is substantially wrong. I, too, am interested in finding out what cave this is, and whether it was ever properly explored and surveyed. If not, sounds l

Re: [Texascavers] Where's it from?

The Internet makes such questions too easy: Job 28. Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net On Mon, November 17, 2014 9:33 pm, Marvin Miller via Texascavers wrote: > Here's a Locklearian post: > > What ancient text is the following taken from? > > 1There is a mine for silver > and a place where gold

Re: [Texascavers] Texas Cavers magazine archive

Bill, Many thanks for your careful perusal of the Texas Caver archive and fixing some errors. Was the missing issue you were looking for 1986 no. 2? It was not in the archive I downloaded, but it is in KIP, although in a strange fashion. Their issues for 1986 are not all in numerical order, and

Re: [Texascavers] Climbing device museum

Unfortunately Gary Storrick took down his Vertical Devices web pages some time ago. I got a message from him to that effect in 2010. Have you been to it recently? That said, many of the pages are still available from a web archive. For ascenders, see

[Texascavers] Bolt Hangers

For anyone interested in bolt hangers, ClimbTech currently has stainless ones on sale for $1.99 each: . That's only a little more than they sell nonstainless for. And if you live in Austin and pick them up at their store, there's no shipping charge. Mark

Re: [Texascavers] UT Grotto Mexico trip in November

Bill, It printed for me, and I'm also using an out-of-date operating system, albeit a different one (Windows XP). Actually, I printed it to PDF, which I could then print on paper if I wanted to. I didn't actually make a paper copy, though. Try printing to PDF first. Mark On Tue, October 21, 2

Re: [Texascavers] Cave Rescue in Peru

The Spanish caver trapped in a cave in Peru has been brought out and the rescuers are going home. Mark On Mon, September 29, 2014 1:03 pm, Mixon Bill via Texascavers wrote: > Here's what Google translate makes of a Spanish-language post by > Carlo

Re: [Texascavers] Caving in the Scotland Nation ?

David, Scotland appears to have very little karst and few caves of interest. My guess is that the political situation there will be largely irrelevant to cavers, British or otherwise. WTF is the BRF? Did you mean BCRA? Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net On Wed, September 17, 2014 7:39 pm,

Re: [Texascavers] EARTH: Valley Fever an Occupational Hazard for Geoscientists

Valley Fever is apparently a fungal infection so it is not surprising that treatment for histoplasmosis might be effective. Cavers who have lived in the country or have been around farms/ranches or spent much time in bat caves likely have built up some level of immunity. Like histo, it is not

Re: [Texascavers] Definition of Old-timer

David, Maybe you're not an old-enough timer to remember this, but the major connections in Oaxaca didn't begin until 1980. That's when Li Nita was connected to Sotano de San Agustin, making Sistema Huautla the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere. Several more connections in Huautla follow

Re: [Texascavers] NEW TSS Website

Nice job, Butch. A feature I would like to see added is a site search box. For example, when I went to look at the Guadalupe River page Julie Jenkins mentioned, I couldn't find it. Mark On Fri, September 5, 2014 9:42 am, Julie Jenkins via Texascavers wrote: > Only one tiny comment... My olde

Re: [Texascavers] NEW TSS Website

Julie, I think most web browsers have an option to change the font of displayed web pages. For instance, in Firefox go to Tools/Options/Content/Advanced and select a font and size you like. Then uncheck the box allowing web pages to use their own font instead of your selected one. It's a lit

Re: [Texascavers] Wonderful pictures of Hang Son Doong online

Louise, Certainly not length; Mammoth is uncontested in that category. Volume or cross section is what they're referring to, but even those are equivocal because they are so difficult to measure accurately. Those reports are widely considered to be overblown, but nevertheless it is a huge un

Re: [Texascavers] The Texas Caver

Jill, The best way to get articles is to contact likely authors directly and make a personal request for something. I know you shouldn't have to do that, but it works and as you have seen, asking generally and waiting for response doesn't. As editor, and hopefully someone well-connected with

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