Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Mark Minton
kill people to conduct an exploration. Safety and conservation first. Egos should come in a far second to anything else. Anyone care to comment? --- On Sat, 3/16/13, Mixon Bill wrote: From: Mixon Bill Subject: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report To: "Cavers Texas" Date: Saturday

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Mark Minton
kill people to conduct an exploration. Safety and conservation first. Egos should come in a far second to anything else. Anyone care to comment? --- On Sat, 3/16/13, Mixon Bill wrote: From: Mixon Bill Subject: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report To: "Cavers Texas" Date: Saturday

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Mark Minton
kill people to conduct an exploration. Safety and conservation first. Egos should come in a far second to anything else. Anyone care to comment? --- On Sat, 3/16/13, Mixon Bill wrote: From: Mixon Bill Subject: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report To: "Cavers Texas" Date: Saturday

RE: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Louise Power
: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report It would be nice to hear some justification for the garbage left behind from the previous trips. What ever happened to the "haul it it, haul it out" philosophy? Maybe it was too much work? Maybe the pace just took too much out of the participants? Possi

RE: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Louise Power
Certainly goes against everything I was told when I first started caving many, M-A-A-A-A-N-N-N-Y years ago. Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:03:49 -0700 From: freddiepoe...@yahoo.com To: bmixon...@austin.rr.com CC: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report It

RE: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Louise Power
: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report It would be nice to hear some justification for the garbage left behind from the previous trips. What ever happened to the "haul it it, haul it out" philosophy? Maybe it was too much work? Maybe the pace just took too much out of the participants? Possi

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Bill Steele
I'm terribly saddened by this. I didn't know. I spent a week on the 1994 Huautla expedition and my small group helped haul a lot of gear up one deep pit. I was told that the expedition team remaining left a water-powered battery recharging rig in a side chamber near Camp 3, and that most ropes t

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Bill Steele
I'm terribly saddened by this. I didn't know. I spent a week on the 1994 Huautla expedition and my small group helped haul a lot of gear up one deep pit. I was told that the expedition team remaining left a water-powered battery recharging rig in a side chamber near Camp 3, and that most ropes t

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-17 Thread Bill Steele
I'm terribly saddened by this. I didn't know. I spent a week on the 1994 Huautla expedition and my small group helped haul a lot of gear up one deep pit. I was told that the expedition team remaining left a water-powered battery recharging rig in a side chamber near Camp 3, and that most ropes t

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread Mimi Jasek
your trips, it may be > time to re-evaluate your methods. It is not necessary to trash the cave or > kill people to conduct an exploration. Safety and conservation first. Egos > should come in a far second to anything else. Anyone care to comment? > > --- On Sat, 3/16/13, Mixon

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread Mimi Jasek
your trips, it may be > time to re-evaluate your methods. It is not necessary to trash the cave or > kill people to conduct an exploration. Safety and conservation first. Egos > should come in a far second to anything else. Anyone care to comment? > > --- On Sat, 3/16/13, Mixon

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread Mimi Jasek
your trips, it may be > time to re-evaluate your methods. It is not necessary to trash the cave or > kill people to conduct an exploration. Safety and conservation first. Egos > should come in a far second to anything else. Anyone care to comment? > > --- On Sat, 3/16/13, Mixon

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread freddie poer
Bill wrote: From: Mixon Bill Subject: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report To: "Cavers Texas" List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 5:05 PM >From a participant in the British cave-diving expedion to Huautla in Mexico: > I was with the advance te

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread freddie poer
Bill wrote: From: Mixon Bill Subject: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report To: "Cavers Texas" Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 5:05 PM >From a participant in the British cave-diving expedion to Huautla in Mexico: > I was with the advance team who were mainly tasked to get t

Re: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread freddie poer
Bill wrote: From: Mixon Bill Subject: [Texascavers] Huautla progress report To: "Cavers Texas" List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 5:05 PM >From a participant in the British cave-diving expedion to Huautla in Mexico: > I was with the advance te

[Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread Mixon Bill
From a participant in the British cave-diving expedion to Huautla in Mexico: I was with the advance team who were mainly tasked to get the cave rigged to the bottom. We rigged down to the 620 depot and then set up and moved into camp 3 for four days. We also had Jason Mallinson, the lea

[Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread Mixon Bill
From a participant in the British cave-diving expedion to Huautla in Mexico: I was with the advance team who were mainly tasked to get the cave rigged to the bottom. We rigged down to the 620 depot and then set up and moved into camp 3 for four days. We also had Jason Mallinson, the lea

[Texascavers] Huautla progress report

2013-03-16 Thread Mixon Bill
From a participant in the British cave-diving expedion to Huautla in Mexico: I was with the advance team who were mainly tasked to get the cave rigged to the bottom. We rigged down to the 620 depot and then set up and moved into camp 3 for four days. We also had Jason Mallinson, the lea