Re: [Texascavers] [greater_houston_grotto] Re: Chris Lafferty's Hole

2015-03-16 Thread Heather Tucek via Texascavers
Guess who made it to the Front Page of reddit.com today? ;) Someone even reversed it so you make it out safely. :) On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Chris Lafferty via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: That doesn't make it sound any better, Lyndon... I had nothing to do with

Re: [Texascavers] [greater_houston_grotto] Re: Chris Lafferty's Hole

2015-03-16 Thread Heather Tucek via Texascavers
Guess who's on the Front Page of reddit.com today? ;) On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Chris Lafferty via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: That doesn't make it sound any better, Lyndon... I had nothing to do with that upload. It's from a video Bennett Lee took on a Deep

Re: [Texascavers] [greater_houston_grotto] Re: Chris Lafferty's Hole

2015-03-16 Thread Chris Lafferty via Texascavers
That's awfully nice of them. I'd hate to be stuck down there indefinitely. Chris On Mar 16, 2015 8:42 AM, Heather Tucek via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: Guess who made it to the Front Page of reddit.com today? ;) Someone even reversed it so you make it out safely. :) On

[Texascavers] UT/USS Grotto meeting 3/18!

2015-03-16 Thread Mimi Alexander via Texascavers
Howdy, cavers! At the grotto meeting this Wednesday, Barbara MacLeod will be speaking on Maya cave archaeology in Naj Tunich, Guatemala! The meeting, hosted by the University Speleological Society, is at 7:45pmin *Burdine 136*. Follow this link to a map of where the building is located on the

Re: [Texascavers] [greater_houston_grotto] Re: Chris Lafferty's Hole

2015-03-16 Thread Lyndon Tiu via Texascavers
You are going in and out of the hole indefinitely. -- Lyndon Tiu On Mar 16, 2015 12:04 PM, Chris Lafferty via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: That's awfully nice of them. I'd hate to be stuck down there indefinitely. Chris On Mar 16, 2015 8:42 AM, Heather Tucek via

Re: [Texascavers] [greater_houston_grotto] Re: Chris Lafferty's Hole

2015-03-16 Thread Charles Goldsmith via Texascavers
I saw it first on the front page of reddit, then someone pasted in /r/caving, very nice! On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Heather Tucek via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: Guess who made it to the Front Page of reddit.com today? ;) Someone even reversed it so you make it out

[Texascavers] TCMA Rolling Oaks Work Day, Saturday, March 21 in San Antonio

2015-03-16 Thread Ellie Watson via Texascavers
We're having another volunteer work day at Rolling Oaks Cave Preserve in Bexar County (northwest San Antonio) on Saturday, March 21st at 10am. The main purposes are to clean up the grounds (trash and branches) and to continue the dig at Niche Cave, which is full of old farm trash and sediment

Re: [Texascavers] [greater_houston_grotto] Re: Chris Lafferty's Hole

2015-03-16 Thread Alex Sproul via Texascavers
I had nothing to do with that upload. It's from a video Bennett Lee took on a Deep Trip in August 2012. The video is somewhere on YouTube. The comments are hilarious, though! That .gif is too classic, Chris! May I share it with the Social Media folks? It's bound to come in handy for something

Re: [Texascavers] [greater_houston_grotto] Re: Chris Lafferty's Hole

2015-03-16 Thread Chris Lafferty via Texascavers
Go ahead and share the .gif, Alex. It's in the public domain. I don't know who created the. gif. Given the unexpected publicity, I may make an account on Reddit/Imgur tonight and direct anyone interested in caving to the NSS IO page. I've CC'd Bennett on this e-mail. Chris On Mar 16, 2015 2:17

Re: [Texascavers] TCMA Rolling Oaks Work Day--old bottles

2015-03-16 Thread Logan McNatt via Texascavers
Ellie, TCMA, and everyone else digging in caves with old trash, If you find old bottles, here is the best website to identify how old they are and what they contained: http://www.sha.org/bottle/ The SHA is the Society for Historic Archeology. I recommend you keep all old bottles, because

Re: [Texascavers] TCMA Rolling Oaks Work Day--old bottles

2015-03-16 Thread Fritz Holt via Texascavers
Thanks, Logan. I have a collection here at Triple Creek Ranch near Dripping Springs. I particularly like unusual and colored ones. The same goes for insulators. All are invited to come to the ranch almost anytime. Fritz Holt 713-818-2496 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 16, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Logan