[Texascavers] Frolicking in Austin

2016-08-27 Thread David via Texascavers
This is David Locklear, dlocklea...@gmail.com I am leaving Sugarland, Texas at 11 p.m. tonight ( now, Saturday, the 27th ), and driving west along I-10. I may get a really cheap motel near Austin around 3 a.m. I plan to frolick most of the day Sunday in or around Travis County. I need to

Re: [Texascavers] Research finds porcupines are prominent in many south-central Texas caves

2016-08-27 Thread Fritz Holt via Texascavers
My daughters and I made a raft trip from Lajitas thru Santa Elena Canyon in April, 1979. Not guided, we just rented a raft. We stayed at the fairly new Cavalry Post motel in Lajitas and while there experienced a somewhat severe hail storm which covered the ground. We spent the first night at

[Texascavers] TCR 2016 Friday Wine Tasting

2016-08-27 Thread via Texascavers
Greetings Cavers - We're not having a glass of wine, we're having six! It's called a tasting and it's classy... Friday night there will be wine tasting at TCR! The TCR Cooks plan to have a dinner fundraiser to help pay for their new trailer. Details to be announced as the date gets closer.

[Texascavers] Texas cave biology abstracts

2016-08-27 Thread Mixon Bill via Texascavers
The conference abstracts booklet at www.speleobiology.com/icsb2016/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/ICSB_2016_Abstracts_2.pdf contains ~8 abstracts of talks or papers about cave critters in Texas. There are also twenty abstracts about Mexico, all but two of them about the Astyanax cave fish of

[Texascavers] Carrizal

2016-08-27 Thread David via Texascavers
I posted this story on CaveTex about 2 years ago.Here it is again, but rewritten from a very fuzzy memory bank: Sometime around 1996 ( 20 years ago ! ), I had a desire to poke around up in a small dome near the back of the Carrizal.My recollection from previous trips was that this dome

Re: [Texascavers] Grutas del Carrizal

2016-08-27 Thread Charles Loving via Texascavers
Moni: Visited the cave in 2000 in the winter when the bats were gone. The mayor was afraid that there was still histo there and we all wore masks. I was with Terry Raines the first time we dove the syphon into the back parts of the cave. On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Asociación Coahuilense de

[Texascavers] Cave study designed to solve puzzle of prehistoric megadroughts in the western U.S. :

2016-08-27 Thread Jerry via Texascavers
Cave study designed to solve puzzle of prehistoric megadroughts in the western U.S. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/08/cave-study-designed-to-solve-puzzle-of-prehistoric-megadroughts-in-the-western-u-s/ Jerry Atkinson. ___ Texascavers mailing list |

Re: [Texascavers] Grutas del Carrizal

2016-08-27 Thread Asociación Coahuilense de Espeleología AC . via Texascavers
thank you Bill, is a wonderful information... but is all the investigation the cavers did in this cave, no more a recently years? Moni 2016-08-26 20:13 GMT-05:00 Mixon Bill via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com>: > Moni -- Map of Grutta de Carrizal is at >