Thanks for passing along the good news, Dwight.
Logan McNatt
lmcn...@austin.rr.com
On 4/14/2015 1:15 PM, dirt...@comcast.net wrote:
Blair Pittman news
Long-time Texas Caver
From the Terlingua Moon: 4/14/2015
Blair Pittman, who recently suffered a stroke, “is doing pretty darn
well,”
Blair Pittman news
Long-time Texas Caver
From the Terlingua Moon: 4/14/2015
Blair Pittman, who recently suffered a stroke, “is doing pretty darn well,”
according to his wife, Jean Hardy-Pittman.
The former long-time resident of Terlingua, who now lives in Alpine, and author
of the
Met the man at his home in Terlingua and took him a copy of his story in a
1974 National Goegraphic. about east texas plants and things. Was and is still
is a very interesting man to spend some time with. He showed me the Terlingua
Sink hOLE and took me and my x wife into the mine near his
Thanks Chris, Jerry and Nancy for your quick and informative responses. I¹m
a ³pre-soak your rope² believer now!
-Frank Binney
From: Texas Cavers Texascavers@texascavers.com
Reply-To: Texas Cavers Texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 12:19 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Hello cavers!
We're 10 days away from the 2015 TSA convention so it's high time I
announced our awesome speakers for this year! Speakers and their topics are
listed below, in the order they're currently scheduled to present. Check
your program for any changes, or better yet, show up at 9am and
Where in El Paso is Blair being treated and how long will he be there?Karen
From: mark gee via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com
To: texascavers@texascavers.com texascavers@texascavers.com;
dirt...@comcast.net dirt...@comcast.net
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Is soaking and drying a new caving rope prior to use now the recommended
procedure?
I don¹t remember this as a protocol from back in the day, but someone
suggested presoaking to a young caver friend out here who recently bought
1200 ft of static rope for a Golondrinas trip.
Perhaps it¹s a way to
Frank,
I soak all my new static ropes. In addition to bringing the rope closer to
its final length, it also strips some remaining manufacturing detergents
that make the rope a bit slippery when new.
Chris Lafferty
On Apr 14, 2015 1:56 PM, Frank Binney via Texascavers
texascavers@texascavers.com
its a really good way to avoid having a long rope soak and shrink itself on a
cave trip as happened in Mexico when our brand new first drop rope lost 10 %
(as advertised) of its length while we were cave camping. good news was that
I headed out early, noticed how little rope was at the bottom
Water molecules adsorb to the polyester and effectively shrink the rope,
tightening the weave and giving it additional abrasion resistance. And as Chris
noted, it washes off the manufacturer's detergents that give the rope a slick
coating.
Jerry.
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