for a job.
I wish that service had a nationwide search box, so I could search for
caving related items.
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them, but I will try.
They will be on a very short visit, so a regular caving trip would not
work, and it would need to be a super easy cave in Cedar Park.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
David Locklear
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This is David Locklear.
If anyone is in the vicinity of FM 620 this evening and can give me
a ride to the Greyhound station, it would save me $ on a taxi ride.
David
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Cavers should snatch these 3 caves up if it all possible.
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a cave purchase, as it is so close to the main road
for miles and miles, and super easy for locals to access.
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A study was published today that indicates subtly that napping in
caves is deadly.
The scientist have no idea why, but that was the conclusion they
reached after their research.
Ref.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/04/22/naps-linked-with-higher-risk-death/
is type a cave name in one of these ranch for sale
web-sites and surf around, and you might stumble on to something
interesting.
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to that creekbed, that I did my first sewerlunking.
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P.S.
I was in a truck stop the other day and found some good caving gloves
made by Caterpillar.The were $ 10 and fit great on x-large hands. These
are the type that are polyester and stretch and have a thick rubber coating on
the palm
design. It will be interesting to see if
a pin came loose, or there was a fracture in the main link.
Somewhere there is a personal injury attorney with a big smile on his face.
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on the concrete.
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flexible. However, they appear to offer no ankle support, so a caver might
want to wrap their ankles like athletes do with sport tape.
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of Center.
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Ref:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Preserve-Protect-Gunnels-Cave/111719558859888
http://texasspeleologicalsurvey.org/publications/images/EastTexas.jpg
be acceptable as a primary source
of light in any Texas cave, and as a back-up to keep in the cavepack for
expedition trips to the big caves, because INOVA has a reputation for
durability.
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to light up
remote areas of the tour, where they could use a 12 volt system.
Cavers could also mount it to their vehicles in various places.
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will be Spanish speakers, so it will be an
opportunity to brush up on your Spanish.
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by the
medicine company that markets Pepcid.
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near the town, and didn't find
anything worth making
a note of.There was a large shelter cave that looked like it had
been mined once.
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Ref:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUuO0cnpd4
( skip to 1:30 in the link above
I received 2 new LED headlamps for my birthday this past weekend.
1 )
http://www.coastportland.com/hl44-led-headlamp.htm
Purchased at a Walmart that caters to the wealthy folks.. I haven't seen it
at any other store. The good is, the light pattern and settings
are perfect
for Texas
There is someone selling 2 issues old UTG newletters:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODA2WDcwMQ==/z/2GMAAOxyiOxR4KAX/$(KGrHqR,!lgFHPz9K!otBR4K!WoFI!~~60_57.JPG
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If you are planning to buy a new tent, you might as well buy one called,
THE CAVE.
http://www.heimplanet.com/en/tents/
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or 3 hours at best.
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dreams.
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way to go.
Plan A should never rely on casino winnings to finance the expedition.
Plan B should be better planned.
To be continued
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blocked tethering on all their phones, cut the # of Gb in half,
charging outrageous fees for going over 5Gb, no more free music, no more
financial options to pay bill, and a poor selection of new phones, no
SIM-card phones, etc, etc. And the customer service is close to none.
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.
Mark Minton was awarded the prestigious Fellow of the NSS award.
I think everybodies definition of an old-timer is different. For me, it was
anybody actively participating in organized caving in the early 70's.
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was
the only thing holding my foot to the Jumar. I did not tie the cord
to the Jumar eye-hole, but wrapped it around the handle and tied it
off.
While I would not recommend doing that now, I would say the cord is
light enough to throw in the cave-pack for an emergency or as a
back-up.
David
If you are connected to numerous caving pages, it can be challenging to
keep up with the latest post.
I just started using BlinkFeed today on my new phone, and it seems to be
worth taking a look at.
The smartphone screen is filled with about 4 to 6 tiles that represent the
latest post on each
.
This is the only cave in Texas where you might get bit by an
alligator, but still highly unlikely.
Disclaimer: Google Earth labels the lake ( actually a large pond )
as Cary Lake
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first.
4 cavers assisted me in small ways to make this road-trip less stressful.
So I would like to tell them Thank You.
Hopefully, not to be continuedas the remainder of the trip is a routine
drive for me.
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Please do not take this post too seriously.
Esquire Magazine has voted Emily Ratajkowski
Woman of the Year.
Here are 2 photos of her in a sea cave:
https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/305932_364459113665589_1963922218_n.jpg
Is this old news ?
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/10/29/hi-tech-explorers-set-out-to-map-ancient-rome-s-aqueducts
Sewerlunking finally getting some international recognition.
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yet ?
I am tempted to drive from Houston tonight if there is still a waterfall.
Is the mining equipment and the ladder ok ?
Did anybody rappel down the 20 foot waterfall ?
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This is just to give some ideas to the people that like animated-gifs
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_yzrIPplR9Y/UnWep3kbeXI/Oek/lmj3ogckmyU/w469-h624-no/IMG_20131102_171612-MOTION.gif
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daughter, and have zero control over my visitation rights. In my present
state of mind, I could not recommend marriage to anyone.
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I would like to see a savvy caver reverse-engineer a crank-light
specifically designed to power a tiny LED headlamp as your 3rd source of
light.
a chance to see if that
was such a good idea.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/106745323215963190758/115224409657532359034/about
Please email me privately, if you have any sound advice on that
subject.
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through the video.
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I do not know anything about Instagram, but here is a new photo posted
there taken by a well known cave photographer.
http://instagram.com/p/gn3p8-RbaK/
If you watch the video in the link below, you will see a caver trying
to make a living
putting caves on the internet so that anyone in the world can take a virtual
tour of that cave from the comfort of their home.
and liberal.
I hope to go caving in Mexico with my Mexican caving friends in 2014.
To the best of my knowledge, there is not a cave with a warm-water
rapidly-flowing creek north of Monterrey. And those are my favorite kind
of caves.
Respectfully,
David Locklear
have escaped the gravitational pull of the planet in the manner which
they are proposing. The Locklear Theory is that it came off of
Deimos, and that
explains the shape of Deimos.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Deimos-MRO.jpg
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overly-opinionated guy, but less
Check out how excited people in Houston get when a sinkhole opens up here.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/sinkhole-causing-problems-in-west-houston/-/1735978/23107834/-/qi4gr0z/-/index.html
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I was thinking that this cold weather is a fine time to go down in places
like Kiwi Sink and look for some warm blowing air.Right ?
Would newly opened cracks in Kiwi Sink blow warm air this week ?
David Locklear
Ref:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110326191631AAHFotV
hobbyist
using a pinch of guano under the roots of their aquarium plants ?
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Newsletter is one of the best
things to read on the planet. And the NSS News, is also high on my
list of favorite things to read. I wish
I had more spare time to enjoy them.
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Ref:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/One-of-the-world-s-most-dangerous-dive-sites
that sound legitimate ?
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that I once reported about, as a token of appreciation
for their contribution to Texas caving.This one though, I am
keeping until a better one comes along.
David Locklear
NSS # 27639
P.S.For those of you who do not know me and think I am arrogant, I
am just being corny in
a truthful
I am not a gamer, but according to Google News, this is news.
The video game, The Cave, is now free to download if you are using
Android, and are willing to download it from the Amazon App page,
Two of the Facebook pages that I criticized the most were pages that I
created and mis-manage. I should have pointed that out.
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( photo posted by a Jim Gumm )
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In a cave in Morocco, scientist find 52 buried bodies showing unusual
tooth decay:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24332237
Other related ref:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/01/03/1318176111
the vendors with gear sales.
On a related note, the video in the link below is of today's tv segment,
featuring Cavepearl. ( I could only find it on Facebook. )
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=760312710664416set=vb.239977856031240type=2theater
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the
way to Uruapan, about
15 miles ( as the bird flies ) south of there, as the description by the YouTube
uploader suggest.
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The YouTube description suggest it is near the ejido village in the
hills above the town of Aranza
which would put it a few kilometers
An Italian caver uploaded this video last week.
Are your vertical practice sessions this much fun ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoNlQ264cU
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message.I would not
approve of this, unless it were on another planet, using an electric ATV.
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in this new era
of high-tech headlamps.
David Locklear
Anthropologist have a sketch of a man they believe lived 7,000
years ago in cave in Spain.
http://img5.tgdaily.com/sites/default/files/stock/la_brana_1_dark_skinned_blue_eyes.jpg
He looks just like many cavers I know today. Which caver do you
know that most
resembles him ?
I bet my
sitting around the campfire. Surely,
they had some
kind of humor and told jokes, and sang songs and beat on something with sticks
to make percussion sounds. I bet the old timers would say, back
in the good
ole days, we didn't have a wheel, you younguns got it made, etc.
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about my life.
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of something.So the A.S.S.
would sometimes have
75 members by the 2nd fall meeting, and the last spring meeting there
would be about 4
people.
So in a nutshell, I am almost no help.
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1987 A.S.S Vice-President
( Disclaimer:Appointed V.P. by outgoing 1986 president
because
I think I posted this last year, so this is just an update.
The guy in the link below was one of the more active A.S.S. members in the
fall of 87. He was a scrawny kid when he first joined the A.S.S. His
activities were cut short by a rock-climbing accident at Enchanted Rock.
He was very lucky
that for the
hoax to even be legitimate, that Bigfoot had to have been hiding in a Bexar
County cave. I had zero idea that it would start a bear discussion, but
that turned out to be interesting, at least to me.
I will not mention Facebook or Bigfoot again.
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to visit a part of Texas few people would dare
enter. It is the most dangerous place I have ever visited in my entire
life. However, it will be much safer, if I can prevent more hoodrats from
moving in next to me.
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2506 Keene St. Apt. # 1, Houston, TX, 77009
281-995-8487 ( text-line )
.
My estranged wife wants to celebrate our 13 year marriage on Valentine's
Day. That item would never make it on to my to-do list. But I will have
to suffer through it for the kid.
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. Right ?
Or is that just a speleo-myth ?
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of that quality should have the author's signature, rank
and serial number on the bottom.
To get the 4th place or higher (such as The Bronze Medal ) there has to be
some really good humor, or a major new discovery, or get thrown in jail,
etc.
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in a commercial cave application for cave tours.
I think the key to the success of this is how much battery power it requires as
opposed to using other forms of data transfer.
Can anybody think of a cave related application ?
David Locklear
Jerry won the Mystery Cave of the Month.
Travis comes in 2nd
I first heard about that cave in the mid-80's and was told it was a fine
cave. But yesterday, I saw the trip report posted on Oztotl from 2004,
and enjoyed seeing the pictures of it.
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stuff for attention, or to create discord.
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Unfortunately, those mask appear cumbersome and uncomfortable, especially when
exerting yourself, sweating, etc.
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parked at a parking meter in the Museum District and just road the
MetroRail for one station.
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It is practised by a small sect of Judaism that believes Oztotl has not
come yet, which makes almost no sense, as how could the caves maintain
themselves without a spiritual keeper for these past 8,000 years. And why
would Oztotl need to come later if the caves and cave-critters are doing
fine
Has he had a BM yet ?
until she gets transferred to the rehab center. That
could all happen sooner.
Mallory is not currently on any painkillers, or exotic meds.
Since her mom is posting details, I will let
her tell the rest of the good news
David Locklear
DeLorme has a new gadget that let's you send text messages from very remote
areas.
It is called inReach SE.
It has other functions, and is rugged.
Cost $ 300.
Not sure if there is a monthly service fee.
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that is an improvement over the way it was done
at some other conventions, but back then cavers were not so
wired to the internet.It certainly saves paper, or at least it
should.It also allows for last minute corrections.
So I say Kudos to the caver that put that link together.
David
of staying off of Facebook
for
over a year. )
I couldn't find anything on YouTube, or on CaveChat.org.
I did not see anything on Onlinecavers.com. ( I have not had time to follow
that site. )
Did I miss any other web place where convention updates were posted ?
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being the provider of convention updates, it appears Facebook is now the
current trend.
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Is this the Bill Stephens that was instrumental in helping with the
cable-ladder contest at TCR back in the mid to late 80's ? I think that
guy also won lots of cable-ladder contest, and taught lots of kids and
newbie cavers how to properly climb a cable-ladder.
In New Zealand, jetpack researchers have received permission to begin human
test flights of the jetpack shown in the link here.
It can hover up to 5,000 feet, but human test will be restricted to 20 feet.
Military/Search Rescue will be able to purchase them in 2014 for $
250,000.
Curiosity page.
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of responders differ from accidents in the past
in central Texas ? Meaning did CaveTex help ? or Facebook ? Or
phone-texting ? Did a phone with 3G help ?
Did I Ieave out anything out ?
Once the victim was out of the cave, everything with the treatment of the
victim was uneventful. Right ?
David
Here is one of the latest caving videos uploaded to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2BcC9Zayjk
It is the best one I have seen in a long time.
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away in my time, I think about them
often.It is sad that our lives are so hectic, that we can't remember
when another year lapses since their passing. Maybe if I would sit
around a caver campfire, I would hear a toast to one of them.
David Locklear
P.S. My next caving accident (which
me on that. It seems like a
professional way to brag about your accomplishments though. Right ?
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for 2013.
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, and write a report for the Texas Caver.
A nice color photo of the entrance is on the cover of SpeleoSpace around
1994 or 95.
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homeless quicker than
I thought
does have a respectable publication available
on the subject, thanks to Jerry Atkinson.
http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_sites/tss/publications/images/EastTexas.jpg
An enthusiatic caver using the web, could probably discover a new
pseudo-cave in east Texas.
David Locklear
P.S. My new ex
That one issue is worth the annual membership fee.
I want that cover photo life size hanging on the wall in my house someday.
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speleo-copter.
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How many of you take a wallet into a cave ?
And if so, what do you have in it. Do you put it in your cave pack or in
your pants pocket ?
If you are concerrned your car will be broken into or stolen, then you
should take precautions.
I would bury my wallet keys near the cave entrance under a
in a hot
sulfuric-acid spring for 5 minutes with his eyes open, having just manually
adjusted a calf-bone sticking out of his leg.
Tickets for this movie were $ 17.50 in Houston per ticket ( on the IMAX
screen ). I can't believe so many people are stupid enough to pay that.
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, at Fry's store, for around $ 60 plus tax.
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of this station.
Address:
2506 Keene St., Apt. # 1
It is a hundred year old quadraplex. My room needs repairs before it will
be livable, but I think most cavers would call it comfortable.
I am guessing it will be 2 weeks before I actually move in and have
electricity.
To be continued ...
David
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Texas_Caver/1990-v35-n01.pdf
The photo-link below shows wing-suit pioneer, Jeb Corliss, about to check
out some cave entrances ( rock shelters ? ) in the side of a cliff:
https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/598632_613259112050379_395002478_n.jpg
( click on that photo to enlarge it )
If you freeze this video
Some of the new Android phones come included with a notification sound
option called, stalactite.
It sounds like a tiny water drop splashing in a cave, as there is a subtle
echo.
You can choose this sound for when someone sends you a text or email, or
for a date reminder, etc.
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