Re: [Texascavers] Reminiscing a Texas Caver article

2019-07-10 Thread Bill Steele
I did the Illusive Pit in the late 70s with Maureen Cavanaugh (now Howell). Terry Sayther dropped us off at the mouth of the canyon it’s in and came back the next day. It’s a really great pit. What blew me away as I climbed the rope were the drawings on the wall (some lewd) along narrow

Re: [Texascavers] Reminiscing a Texas Caver article

2019-07-10 Thread JamesJasek
The real title to the TC article was “Conquering the Illusive Pit, 436 Feet Deep”, TEXAS CAVER December 1996 Volume 41 Number 4, Page 70. Sent from my iPhoneX On Jul 10, 2019, at 7:55 PM, mmin...@caver.net wrote: On 2019-07-10 13:48, David wrote: > My involvement in that trip was re-finding

Re: [Texascavers] Reminiscing a Texas Caver article

2019-07-10 Thread Katherine Arens
welcome to yet another grammar problem immortalized in a cave name . . . On Jul 10, 2019, at 7:55 PM, mmin...@caver.net wrote: On 2019-07-10 13:48, David wrote: My involvement in that trip was re-finding the cave ( which is illusive ), and doing so with almost no idea

Re: [Texascavers] Reminiscing a Texas Caver article

2019-07-10 Thread mminton
On 2019-07-10 13:48, David wrote: My involvement in that trip was re-finding the cave ( which is illusive ), and doing so with almost no idea where it was ( a remote area in Mexico ). Might that be elusive? :-) And I did post a couple of articles on CaveTex, since at least 2001. I could

[Texascavers] Reminiscing a Texas Caver article

2019-07-10 Thread David
Thank you for the comment, Mr. Jasek. You took me twice to "The Squid Room." I have very fond memories of that. Once in 1986, and again in 1995. The article you refer to, unfortunately did not get the cover photo that Oren Tranberger and I had hoped for. The intented picture arrived too

Re: [Texascavers] Reminiscing

2016-10-05 Thread via Texascavers
In a message dated 10/5/2016 12:00:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, texascavers@texascavers.com writes: Bare with me here please OK, cavers are famous for that, so why no mention of honeys in the hot tub? Sleaze ___ Texascavers mailing list |

Re: [Texascavers] Reminiscing

2016-10-05 Thread Fritz Holt via Texascavers
Nice report on past caving experiences as only David can relate them. Fritz Holt fritz...@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 4, 2016, at 6:51 PM, David via Texascavers > wrote: > > a personal story by David Locklear, dlocklea...@gmail.com > > Bare with me

[Texascavers] Reminiscing

2016-10-04 Thread David via Texascavers
a personal story by David Locklear, dlocklea...@gmail.com Bare with me here please. It is a beautiful day, and I am stuck in horrendous traffic driving with the Sun in my face, with my mind wandering to a more pleasant memory. A quarter of a century ago, I was having preliminary discussions

[Texascavers] reminiscing James McLane

2016-09-22 Thread David via Texascavers
>From David Locklear, dlocklea...@gmail.com It has been a year now since Houston caver, Jim, passed away. In a sense, I still mourn his passing. There were 10 old cavers at his wake with their partners/spouses and some of people had also gone caving or socialized with Jim at caver parties back