photos, ( a few by Dr. Iliffe ), and there are
also some videos.
Some of the photos, are actually a slideshow if you click on them.
One of the photographers, Dante B. Fenolio, has posted good photos of
Texas stygobites
on other web-sites.
David Locklear
caver in Fort Bend County, Texas
P.S
One of my favorite cheap headlamps, the Argo HP, can be had
on-line for as low as $ 26.50.I bought one several years ago,
and would still be using it had the plastic cap to the battery compartment
held together.
Below is where the government goes to buy the headlamp:
Creek Cave.
I believe a few cavers have been able to get into the cave via an easement.
Anybody been in the last year or 2 ?
David Locklear
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The center of the eye is now over land heading towards the Purificacion
area.At this moment, the eye is over a tiny coastal community called Abasolo
which is sort of 1/2 way between the towns of San Fernando and Ciudad
Victoria.
The Brownsville/McAllen area does not look like it is getting
The eye just broke up and turned southwest from the points I mentioned
in the last e-mail just a few minutes ago.
Ciudad Valles is going to get wet, and it looks like Rio Verde too.
The major storm cell appears to be heading for Ciudad Victoria, and
passing just south of the Purificacion area,
Thursday morning, 7:30
It looks like the brunt of the storm is spread out over the small
towns north and
northeast of the capital of the state of San Luis Potosi. Towns like
Villa de Arista, and La
Mantequilla, and west of Cerritos.
The center of the storm has just passed over the Purificacion
Is it necessary for a journalist to put these 2 words together?
http://www.dnj.com/article/20100629/NEWS06/100629022
Does their average reader not know that a spelunker is an
amateur? Or, are they trying to emphasize that it was not
an amateur caver, or amateur archaeologist or an
amateur
The news stopped covering the storm, but there is still lots of
heavy rain falling onto the karst of the Sierra Madres.
The area around the town of Rio Verde in San Luis Potosi, got the
brunt of the storm today. Valley of the Ghost had heavy rain most
of the day. That is where one of the
We seldom talk about good food to take on our camping trips. Maybe
it is because we all have different taste and different budgets.
You can't go wrong with some good tasting salsa to put on
your food, or to dip your chips in.
Below is my current favorite:
Watch this entire video and note the giant void under the pavement that
the drivers continue to drive over as the road rapidly falls off into the raging
river.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY1uq3wi8fUfeature=player_embedded
You have to wonder why they would drive thru that ?
The photo below is a major highway near downtown Monterrey.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4755213100_2e492ee36f.jpg
Some other photos show some major roads that have huge potholes
are going to be difficult to pass or have traffic jams.
And there are pockets of areas were roads are
I am only posting this here because I feel the news media is not making
this info readily available, and many Cavetex readers have friends down
in northern Mexico.
It has been 4 days since Hurricane Alex came ashore.
Some of you may recall driving across a bridge over the
Guayalejo River:
for $ 1.99.
I would recommend this product.
With a possible tropical storm approaching, I would say run out and get you one,
before the shelves empty out. I bought the last one at the store I was at.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/09/1722485/woman-dies-while-cave-diving.html
http://suwanneedemocrat.com/breakingnews/x1907081764/67-YEAR-OLD-WOMAN-IS-CAVE-DIVING-FATALITY
In other
Southwest has a deal if you fly to Manchester which is 3 hours from the
convention.
If you leave on Tuesday before the convention and stay 14 days, it is only
$ 258 round trip.You have to change planes twice.
I am only saying that that is the cheapest flight I could find.
What would you
[ I can't find anything to write about this week ]
Here is a good example of an above ground cave:
http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/9239967.jpg
At least, according to the photographer.
Note that underground is one word, but above ground is 2
there.
If I do make it, I look forward to seeing some of you there.
David Locklear
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Scientist discover new aquatic life swimming hundreds of kilometers
below sea level.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100715/wl_asia_afp/australiaenvironmentcoralreef
Note, then the article says they were in 1,400 meters of water ??
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer/AM_Route_C/1241245667150/1237405732511
The train is called The Vermonter.
It looks like there is only 1 train running each evening out of Essex
Junction, but that
is within hiking distance of the convention.
One of its stops is Hartford, Connecticut
Has anybody heard about this yet ?
http://www.pelicanrope.com/glowropes.html
Apparently, these are kernmantle nylon ropes suitable
for caving, with a pigment in the rope that glows.
They have it in webbing too.
On a related note, their special prusik cord has
a tensile strength of 6,200
I was just curious which of the tour caves have closed due to WNS.
I saw that Wyandotte Cave in Indiana was closed.
( I believe that is a state owned tour cave, as opposed to a privately
owned one. )
I know there has been some debate about tour caves putting up
barriers to keep bats out of their
So the answer to my question is
that
Wyandotte Cave is the only closed tour cave due to WNS ?
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This is post is most likely old news to the folks in Austin.
But in the new movie Predators, there is a jungle scene where
the humans are running from the aliens, and they fall and roll
down a hill, and then off the cliff at Hamilton Pool in Austin,
and then swim to shore.The 6 or so humans
.
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Harrisburg,
Pennsylvannia to Vermont, which is over 8 hours, so I will be searching
for a rider, preferably a caver going to the convention.
Please reply via the OT listserve or to me privately.
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Authorities have closed off the tunnel that leads to the town of Real
de Catorce.
Parts of the tunnel were said to be caving in after the rain of
Alex passed through.
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cavers along the way, if I could get the
message out.
I haven't yet found a caver bulletin board for rideshare to Vermont.
Is there one ?
Feel free to forward this to other list-serves.
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The plant is self-sufficient only requiring the people living in the
nearby houses to operate
the automated controls, in the same way that a compressor station works.
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The tropical depression that is currently north of eastern Cuba
is forecasted to become Tropical Storm Bonnie tonight.
It is headed for the Beaumont area just like Hurricane Rita,
to make landfall on Monday night, and be in Texarkana,
by Tuesday.
This could effect cavers heading on a road-trips,
it.
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to take my daughter
there.
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between Atlanta and Charlotte, North
Carolina is like. And how it compares to the drive from Chattanooga
to Blacksburg, Virginia.
Please e-mail me privately.
David Locklear
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a $ 40 ticket for the bus ride from Manchester
to Burlington. The ride back however, is too miserable to take.
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it is probably to late to
join.You wouldn't want to join unless you frequent the towns on the list
below:
http://www.zipcar.com/cities?return_url=/rates/
One of the perks, is that family members get discount memberships.
David Locklear
P.S. My tentative plans to try to get to the convention
, but if they help driving
then maybe that will even things out. Right ?
Can 32 hours of driving be done safely in 2 days, or do I need
to plan on 3 days ? How are the other people driving planning
on managing this road-trip ?
David Locklear
are willing to flight out the Tuesday of the convention
and come back on the following Tuesday.But all the flights out of Houston,
are too high now.
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I am not sure if this is new news. I don't know if it anything
useful to look for caves
on Mars:
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/whatIs/whatisWWT.aspx?Page=Mars
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trip home is far more higher than I could have
imagined ( I thought to check into that before leaving town !! )
Hope to see a few of you there.Still stuck in Houston.
Cheers,
David Locklear
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cages ).
Please forward this note to any caving list serves in TAG, Virginia,
our along the route above, or any cavers you know
looking for a ride along that route.
It may not be a realistic goal to get to Essex Junction, but that is
the direction I am going to be driving in.
David Locklear
caver
It is Sunday morning, and the relaxing part of my vacation began a few
hours ago.
My current status, is I have a front row seat to a folk musician, who
is playing an
acoustic version of Norwegian Wood.
The musician is Sharon Klien. The roadside coffee-house is an upscale one,
a few miles east
a good night's rest, I will come up with a better plan.
It has been a long day, and I am too tired to
drive much farther north.
To be continued.
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I don't know what the official definition is of extreme caving, but I
doubt it is
as crazy as what this guy is doing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQITWbAaDx0
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Please post any comments on the Facebook site.
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, if the authorities come along and say
you can't have a cookout in our neck of the woods.
If you have any comments, please post them privately to me, or
on the Facebook event site. The majority of the CaveTex readers
are not attending the event, so there is no reason to fill up their mailbox.
David
Anybody planning to dig in the next 2 weeks at Kiwi Sink ?
I am going to try to make it to the next organized dig.
Unfortunately, Monday is the best day for me, and Saturday
morning is usually not possible for me.
David Locklear
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The link below shows a photo of the eastern entrance, or the upstream entrance
to which Texas cave ?
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1268/1318273188_862bb28e5a.jpg
For scale, a 6 foot person could easily walk thru the entrance and out
the western
or downstream entrance.
Here is a hint:
Here is the western or downstream entrance looking out:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1386/1316861930_b3f472a0a4.jpg
That is not a very good picture.
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I was thinking about adding a note that Roger could not play, but I thought that
would be rude. Should have stuck with my instincts.
Yes, the correct answer is Gunnels Cave, about 7 miles south of the town
of Center in Shelby County.
The cave deserves to be some kind of preserve, but is so far
Since this was a state park, shouldn't there have been a sign warning
of the dangerous
depth of the pit?Or a something around the pit like a handrail ?
I think we have all leaned out over a pit before out of curiosity.
If the victim had been holding just a small handline, costing only 3
or 4
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and I recommend Gmail.
On a related note,
I am trying hard to stop posting things on CaveTex, and instead have been
sending out private e-mails and ranting on Facebook.I have also
stopped posting
new articles on LED lights, and there have been many new products to
write about.
David Locklear
://www.pleasanthillwinery.com/wine_list.htm
I am waiting on an e-mail from the winery to see if they
have a better idea.
Please send the comments to me privately, in order not to
bother the other subscribers.
David Locklear
caver in Fort Bend County
http://kykernel.com/2010/04/15/professor-goes-from-caves-to-classroom/
You have to be careful what you say when you do interviews with
newspapers. ( Fortunately,
I learned that lesson when I was young. )
In this case she claimed:
“As far as I know, I am the only woman doing exploration and
.This is where local
divers go to practice. The water is up at the moment.
Unfortunately, they charge $ 10 a person. I also hope to
go swimming there in the next month or so.
Cheers,
David
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The writer of the article below has a new twist on the term spelunker.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/710486-196/wns-depresses-cavers-leaves-others-puzzled.html?i=1
Note, he claims it is the technical term, for caving.
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updates about this event, you
should talk to my
wife.
For the next 31 days, I will be referring to this event as, The Cookout.
Hope to see you all there.
David Locklear
host of the cookout
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these
mistakes.
I wish the correct spelling were stalagtite.That would be logical.
Here is an upside down stalagtite.
http://www.grossmont.edu/garyjacobson/Geology%20220/images/Stalagtite.jpg
( note that it is on a geological page of an educational web-site )
And there are tons more.
David
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I don't know if the Terminal Siphons have any videos on the web.
But just last month, somebody posted a Whiskey Brisket video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDoP7e4qAQofeature=related
Their guitar player is awesome and the lady on the tambourines is
amazing.Can anybody guess who they
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Here is a post by someone claiming they already bought one:
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1809245
David Locklear
caver in Fort Bend
overstock dot com has it on sale
Try this,
do a Facebook search of just the word cave.
A few of you might see something funny
about the 1st listing.
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For
the
word out has been the 2nd hardest part of this so far.
Under the circumstances, I am fairly organized and hopeful that those
that attend
will look forward to the event in 2011.
Please contact me privately if you are interested, as most of Cavetex is not
coming to this.
David Locklear
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I only see 2 Texas cavers pre-registered for the convention.
I will most likely have to skip this one.
Is anybody else going?
They only have 120 registered according to their web-site.I presume that
is because of the economy and WNS, and not a lack of interest in the
convention or the
:Never been to China, but sure do want to
go see some of those caves.
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interest in setting it up and taking it down. I don't know how
feasible that is, since the camp is on city water.
I am bringing several camping cots, and a extra bicycle, etc. for people that
show up without stuff, so pile up as many cavers in a car and come, just like
the good ole' days.
David
A speleolympics event in Belarus was in the news this week:
http://www.fotoglif.com/f/m2j9i7cpj8n0
( would you do that in a cave ?? )
http://www.fotoglif.com/f/uyqhr43bfjix
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100403/ids_photos_wl/r1903811995.jpg/
It seems there was a major flaw in picking the date of May 22nd,
for the cookout.
There are lots of high school and college graduations that weekend.
I would like to ask those of you who wanted to come, but couldn't come
that weekend, to e-mail me if the date of of May 14, 15, 16 would make
you
On the newsstand this month, in one of the scuba magazines
( SCUBA, I think was the title ), is an interesting cave diving photo.
It is a centerfold spread.
At first glance, it appears the diver has surfaced in a remote sinkhole
in the jungle. The surroundings of the sinkhole have a lush
The Walmart in my town has a section where they put clearance
items.
This week there were lots of LED lights in the section at 1/2 price
or better.I didn't buy any, although there was one I have been
wanting to test.
They also had 3/8 inch twisted nylon rope, which comes in handy
for lots of
It seemed to me that the most significant part of this story was the
caver weighed 215 pounds and was negotiating some sort of squeeze
that required contortion.
He was 39 and an computer geek, so it is possible that in the last
2 or 3 years, he has spent more time sitting behind a computer than
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/04/rescue-team-saves-caver-close-call/
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That makes me wonder what archaeologist will call our culture a
thousand years from now?
Will they say America temple, when they first dig up the Alamodome?
Will they stereotype
our whole culture based on that one discovery?
Or will one of them coin some fancy made up name for us, that would
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We don't have a Cabela's where I live, but it looks like they carry
other LED headlamps:
http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/cabelas/s7_518923_imageset_01?$main-Large$
That one looks interesting.
David Locklear
caver in Fort Bend County
near the dinner.
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The link below has some songs by the
Austrian pop star, Crazy Bitch in a Cave.
http://www.myspace.com/crazybitchinacave
Here are 3 photos of her ?
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p156/ichbinpapier/CBC_poster_klein.jpg
I was referring to their basic membership, which does not include
the newsletter.
You have to pay an additional $ 16 per year if you want to be a Regular member
and receive the fine publication that Mark mentioned.
For more info on the dues of the NSS, scroll down to the bottom of the following
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/05/07/1925316/sequoias-crystal-cave-adds-sun.html
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Does anybody who was at ICS remember meeting a caver
from Huntsville, Texas, who had done most of his caving in
a Pennsylvania caving club ?
He bought all the plywood after the map salon, I think ?
I am trying to send him an invitation to the Cookout that
I am planning.
I need his e-mail or
Some scientist believe humans could live longer if they lived in caves
and avoided
all contact with all manufactured items.
That may explain some of the folklore about ancient people living for
hundreds of
years.
It seems plausible that some healthy caveman or cavewoman could have lived
to be
I should have posted the link to the article I was referring to,
as it just appeared on the web last night:
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Cancer-Panel-Wants-Us-To-Be-Cave-Dwellers/2010-05-10/Article_Latest_News.aspx?oid=1071994fid=CN-LATEST_NEWS_
I should have explained better in my previous 2 post that my comment
was in response to the
earlier post about troglobytes living to 175 years, like blind crawfish.
I was in a hurry when I posted the original post.
Sorry for the confusion
She got hit pretty hard at the NSS Convention in Indiana, 3 years ago.
That is terrible news.She is one of the most dedicated people I
have met that
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tell anybody you know that likes caves about this.
Hopefully, this will be a success even with the very low turnout,
so that next year, the Cookout will be a much easier to coordinate.
Cheers,
David Locklear
host of the Cookout
2029 Happy Hollow Road, Brenham, TX
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P.S.I
The article below suggest that one could discover hidden caves in the
jungle by flying over
in a plane with a modified LIDAR gadget:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20004775-54.html?tag=newsCategoryArea.1
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I don't want to reinvent the wheel.I presume somebody out there has
a standard form for landowner liability related to being on a rancher's
property on their computer.
Does anybody have one that they could e-mail to me ?
Otherwise,
I will just copy, paste and edit from the link below or a
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/nottingham/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8682000/8682884.stm
These are man-made tunnels in sandstone, but the surveying part looks
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The satellite photo that shows the cavers camping at the shaft is
interesting. It makes you wonder whether they have video of the
campout also, along with recorded phone conversions.
One of the vehicles is a white crew cab pickup.There appears to be
a white pop-up trailer camper near the
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201005/s2901223.htm
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If you do a Google search on sinkhole murders, you get a few hits.
There was a similar case, and there is a novel about a related
subject.
There could be bones under the breakdown, but probably not human. Right ?
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I would like to thank an anonymous caver for donating some money this week to
help me iron out some of the final bugs, and to all the grottos that
put the event
on their grotto calendar.
David Locklear
host of the Cookout
I watched Mixon's Cave being built at ICS, and even chipped in for a
little while.So I got a little
idea of the effort involved in that.I would like to thank Bill for
all those years of dedication of bringing the cave box it to caving
events.
David Locklear
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593072,00.html
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, and another cheese, and another made a respectable
financial donation.
I will be spending my spare time over the next 3 days, trying to get
the Cookout in gear. ( I am not sure if I am going
to have any spare time though. )
David Locklear
host of the Cookout
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According to the info I see on Google maps, the 2 big sinkholes are 1800 meters
apart.
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what all the hoopla is about.My goal is still to do this
better in the spring of 2011.
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I am curious what various grotto dues are these days.
I saw one of the college caving clubs had dues of $ 20 a semester.
High grotto dues discourage people from joining, especially when
they are already members of other cave related organizations.
Also, it would be interesting to see what perks
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