[SWR] Forwarded from Carl Paganoca

2014-07-24 Thread Bill Bentley
Subject: Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming From: Carl Pagano pagan...@comcast.net Date: 7/24/2014 8:17 AM To: swr-boun...@caver.net Great article. Carl Wyoming cave with fossil secrets to be excavated Associated Press http://www.ap.org/ 1 hour ago *

Re: [SWR] BLM reopens Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave

2014-07-24 Thread Louise Power
Hi Lee, You beat me to this. Here's a link to the online story: http://news.msn.com/us/wyoming-cave-with-fossil-secrets-to-be-excavated Louise Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:53:16 -0600 From: skin...@thuntek.net To: s...@caver.net; texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [SWR] BLM reopens Wyoming's

Re: [SWR] BLM reopens Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave

2014-07-24 Thread Alex Sproul
Lee, what do you know of the recent history of Natural Trap? I visited Armpit in 1974. The grate was in place, but one could get the key from the BLM office in Cody. I bounced Natural Trap, in the company of Barry Fuller, the unofficial 'mayor' of Armpit. (Anybody know what became of him?) We

Re: [SWR] BLM reopens Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave

2014-07-24 Thread Ray Keeler
Here is a more complete article. http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/07/24/wyoming-cave-with-thousands-fossil s-to-be-re-opened-to-scientists-for-first/ Ray From: SWR [mailto:swr-boun...@caver.net] On Behalf Of Alex Sproul Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:00 AM To: Lee H. Skinner Cc:

Re: [SWR] BLM reopens Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave

2014-07-24 Thread Lee H. Skinner
Alex, Lee, what do you know of the recent history of Natural Trap? I visited Armpit in 1974. The grate was in place, but one could get the key from the BLM office in Cody. I bounced Natural Trap, in the company of Barry Fuller, the unofficial 'mayor' of Armpit. (Anybody know what became of

Re: [SWR] BLM reopens Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave

2014-07-24 Thread Bilbo, Michael
Interesting on the creepiness. What's kind of creepy is the high levels of radiation in the caves around there and I imagine the Trap too. I wonder if they'll be staying in the nearby town of Armpit? Definitely a town to visit when you're in that neighborhood - it's a cavers' town and the

Re: [SWR] BLM reopens Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave

2014-07-24 Thread Louise Power
Has anyone taken a geiger counter with them on a trip? Louise  From: pagan...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:24:49 -0600 To: s...@caver.net Subject: Re: [SWR] BLM reopens Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave Used to go to Armpit in the 90's. At that time, there was a shack that cavers sometimes