Re: [Texascavers] Bigfoot

Some years back in Powell's cave we were hoping to find a shorter route to the stream passage via the maze. We didn't find any dig sites that looked promising but we did note some scratch marks about 4' up on the wall that looked like a small animal was trying to get out of the water as they all

Re: [Texascavers] Gill Edigar

I don't know how the Jew thing got started but let's keep to the subject at hand,far as I can tell Gill's no Jew. All the best Gill on a speedy recovery. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Phil Winkler pw...@dca.net wrote: Oops! Some of us were never good spelers. :) On Aug 1, 2013, at 7:18 PM,

Re: [Texascavers] Re: Mallory

Give David a break,are you down there offering support? On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Edward Gelsone egels...@satx.rr.com wrote: Here Here! ** ** *From:* Sheryl Rieck [mailto:sheryl.ri...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Saturday, August 03, 2013 8:23 AM *To:* Bill Steele *Cc:* David; Cavers

Re: [Texascavers] Solo Caving

While this thread is still running I would like to reiterate,if you're going to do some thing adventurous solo from caving,climbing,boating,hiking,biking ,back country sking to useing a chain saw,leave a detailed note somewhere and if you can have a contact person to call on your return all the

[Texascavers] End of the world Party

There will be an end of the world party dec 21 at LaLinda Texas on the Rio Grande down stream from big bend national park.This should be a good chance to visit the area and party like there is no tomorrow - Visit our website:

Re: [Texascavers] end of the world

I'm pretty sure this is a multi day event so take your pick On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Mixon Bill bmixon...@austin.rr.com wrote: There are two different correlations between the Maya longcount and the Gregorian calendar. 13 0 0 0 0 being December 21 is the favorite in the press, probably

Re: [Texascavers] end of the world

, Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote: I think the Mayans, like most of the American Indians, were not usually in too much of a hurry. Take you time with the celebrating. I'm going casual for this one. --Ediger On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Steve Keselik skese...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty

Re: [Texascavers] trip report: O-9 Well on 2013-01-12

What was wrong with the last re-survey we took part in back in the late 90's ? I'm pretty sure I could come up with our notes of the upstream passage including the little side passage. Steve On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:28 PM, David Ochel li...@ochel.net wrote: Howdy y'all, We had a successful

Re: [Texascavers] trip report: O-9 Well on 2013-01-12

with them! Cheers, David On 1/16/13 9:12 AM, Steve Keselik wrote: What was wrong with the last re-survey we took part in back in the late 90's ? I'm pretty sure I could come up with our notes of the upstream passage including the little side passage. Steve On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:28 PM

Re: [Texascavers] How to save your house from wildfire

I guess a wildfire is different than a fire storm of burning volatile gas.After sustaining a direct hit of over 6500 acres of burning state park pines,yaupons and cedars and losing every thing. I know that there was nothing but Gods right hand that could have stopped it.I've helped rebuild at

Re: [Texascavers] blue moon

Whats the name of this moon,Steve On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote: There seems to be a bit of contention about exactly what a Blue Moon is. Some say it's 2 full moons in a month--there have been several of them in the past few years. Others say that

[Texascavers] fumes in CC visitor center

I don't know what happened CC but I've worked construction all my adult life ,I couldn't count the times our work envirment became compromised because of toxic fumes, just like high co2 levels you're no wimp for haulin A out of there and even getting checked out.My pop was chem engineer for Dow

Re: [Texascavers] Gill Edigar

I don't know how the Jew thing got started but let's keep to the subject at hand,far as I can tell Gill's no Jew. All the best Gill on a speedy recovery. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Phil Winkler pw...@dca.net wrote: Oops! Some of us were never good spelers. :) On Aug 1, 2013, at 7:18 PM,

[Texascavers] End of the world Party

There will be an end of the world party dec 21 at LaLinda Texas on the Rio Grande down stream from big bend national park.This should be a good chance to visit the area and party like there is no tomorrow - Visit our website:

Re: [Texascavers] end of the world

I'm pretty sure this is a multi day event so take your pick On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Mixon Bill bmixon...@austin.rr.com wrote: There are two different correlations between the Maya longcount and the Gregorian calendar. 13 0 0 0 0 being December 21 is the favorite in the press, probably

Re: [Texascavers] end of the world

, Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote: I think the Mayans, like most of the American Indians, were not usually in too much of a hurry. Take you time with the celebrating. I'm going casual for this one. --Ediger On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Steve Keselik skese...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty

Re: [Texascavers] trip report: O-9 Well on 2013-01-12

What was wrong with the last re-survey we took part in back in the late 90's ? I'm pretty sure I could come up with our notes of the upstream passage including the little side passage. Steve On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:28 PM, David Ochel li...@ochel.net wrote: Howdy y'all, We had a successful

Re: [Texascavers] trip report: O-9 Well on 2013-01-12

with them! Cheers, David On 1/16/13 9:12 AM, Steve Keselik wrote: What was wrong with the last re-survey we took part in back in the late 90's ? I'm pretty sure I could come up with our notes of the upstream passage including the little side passage. Steve On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:28 PM

Re: [Texascavers] How to save your house from wildfire

I guess a wildfire is different than a fire storm of burning volatile gas.After sustaining a direct hit of over 6500 acres of burning state park pines,yaupons and cedars and losing every thing. I know that there was nothing but Gods right hand that could have stopped it.I've helped rebuild at

[Texascavers] fumes in CC visitor center

I don't know what happened CC but I've worked construction all my adult life ,I couldn't count the times our work envirment became compromised because of toxic fumes, just like high co2 levels you're no wimp for haulin A out of there and even getting checked out.My pop was chem engineer for Dow

Re: [Texascavers] Gill Edigar

I don't know how the Jew thing got started but let's keep to the subject at hand,far as I can tell Gill's no Jew. All the best Gill on a speedy recovery. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Phil Winkler pw...@dca.net wrote: Oops! Some of us were never good spelers. :) On Aug 1, 2013, at 7:18 PM,

Re: [Texascavers] Re: Mallory

Give David a break,are you down there offering support? On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Edward Gelsone egels...@satx.rr.com wrote: Here Here! ** ** *From:* Sheryl Rieck [mailto:sheryl.ri...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Saturday, August 03, 2013 8:23 AM *To:* Bill Steele *Cc:* David; Cavers

[Texascavers] End of the world Party

There will be an end of the world party dec 21 at LaLinda Texas on the Rio Grande down stream from big bend national park.This should be a good chance to visit the area and party like there is no tomorrow - Visit our website:

Re: [Texascavers] end of the world

I'm pretty sure this is a multi day event so take your pick On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Mixon Bill bmixon...@austin.rr.com wrote: There are two different correlations between the Maya longcount and the Gregorian calendar. 13 0 0 0 0 being December 21 is the favorite in the press, probably

Re: [Texascavers] end of the world

, Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote: I think the Mayans, like most of the American Indians, were not usually in too much of a hurry. Take you time with the celebrating. I'm going casual for this one. --Ediger On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Steve Keselik skese...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty

Re: [Texascavers] trip report: O-9 Well on 2013-01-12

with them! Cheers, David On 1/16/13 9:12 AM, Steve Keselik wrote: What was wrong with the last re-survey we took part in back in the late 90's ? I'm pretty sure I could come up with our notes of the upstream passage including the little side passage. Steve On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:28 PM

Re: [Texascavers] How to save your house from wildfire

I guess a wildfire is different than a fire storm of burning volatile gas.After sustaining a direct hit of over 6500 acres of burning state park pines,yaupons and cedars and losing every thing. I know that there was nothing but Gods right hand that could have stopped it.I've helped rebuild at

Re: [Texascavers] blue moon

Whats the name of this moon,Steve On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Gill Edigar gi...@att.net wrote: There seems to be a bit of contention about exactly what a Blue Moon is. Some say it's 2 full moons in a month--there have been several of them in the past few years. Others say that

[Texascavers] fumes in CC visitor center

I don't know what happened CC but I've worked construction all my adult life ,I couldn't count the times our work envirment became compromised because of toxic fumes, just like high co2 levels you're no wimp for haulin A out of there and even getting checked out.My pop was chem engineer for Dow

[Texascavers] OT NAHBS

The North American handmade bicycle show is in Austin this week end.Many good caving vehicles there and much to ponder

Re: [Texascavers] Anyone headed down to SLP?

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Terry Holsinger tr...@sprynet.com wrote: There are 2 400meter ropes that need a ride to/near SLP before the first of February. If anyone is headed south through Austin or San Antonio I can get the rope to you and let ya know who to get it to. Terry H.

Re: [Texascavers] [SWR CAVERS] Re: Halitetites

I'm not quite sure salt mines inter into the realm of speleology but I did work in a very large salt dome near New Iberia La. on Weeks Island. My brother surveyed the spiral shaft to the new part of the dome plus the straight shaft, 1200' deep and 30' in dia. I was working on the drilling rig that

Re: [Texascavers] photos of Peter Strickland

So far Mr. Bockbeer has posted the most pictures of Pete. Personally ,I'm very thankful! Thank You David! On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:32 PM, Charles Goldsmith wrote: > Actually, texascavers.com allows 5mb attachments now, I quietly updated > that a few years ago and just forgot to update the

Re: [Texascavers] Pete Strickland

I don't know if Pete even knew my name but he knew my face. I *could always name drop Sumbera if I needed a tie in. Terry Burgan and I helped with the set up of the hot tub a time or two, Y'all remember Lulling? Pete was such a giving person! He spoke his mind and tought us many things. He is an

Re: [Texascavers] photos of Peter Strickland

Come on Y'all ! Photos of Pete, preferably with his shirt off ! If I asked for of a picture of your dog or what you ate for dinner I'd be overloaded. I want some pictures of the guy I knew and Loved! and I'm not asking for the NSS convention but to remember the man I have known all these years

Re: [Texascavers] Carta Valley on Amazon

If you want to talk about high resale book prices look for" My Vertical World" by Jerzy Kukuczka. Probably a good investment if you can find a good one at the right price. If you don't know who he is then I would highly recommend you read it. Steve On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 8:42 PM Logan wrote: >

Re: [Texascavers] Looking for old caver

I've also wondered about Susie since she's been absent.She was a mainstay of Texas caving, every vertical work shop and other things she was involved with. she was my mentor at CWAN for the photo workshop,back when we used film, 1998 right after I recovered from adult chickenpox. The illness

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Convention

David, I Love you dearly, but if you're going to live in Houston don't complain. Love it or leave it.I left Lake Jackson at 17 in a VW camp mobile and traveled the world, My world,and damn sure didn't look back. The American south west all the way to Montana.I welded in strip mines, built bikes

Re: [Texascavers] a road-trip story - part 2

I think the weight was estimated. 100Lbs is quite heavy or maybe David is funding the trip hustling a little product, always in demand at the convention! Check into Alegiant airlines, $75 should get you close.

Re: [Texascavers] Happy thoughts

And too little water. I think the convention should only be on Skype so we would stop burning all those fossil fuels to get there or a least ride a bicycle! Or hold it every year in the center of the caving universe, Central Texas , of course hosted by other states. Happy Fathers Day and

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Convention

Party on Dude! Glad you made it and are having a good time and a Happy Fathers Day! Some time all we need is a little distance. As the the old song says " How can I miss you if you won't go away"

Re: [Texascavers] Convention Campground

Have your bit coins ready, some “ friends “will be there shortly unless you have icy cold Federmins and vodka, they my settle for that. I’m so glad you made it David and am glad you have a little time to connect! I you do something I wouldn’t do please name it after me! Sent from my iPhone >

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Convention

Thank God for Fintermans. The best caving advice I ever got from an early day Lech explorer was “always bring ear plugs” those eye things are good too. If I was you I’d make a shelter out of that 100lb duffel pack. Party on ! You can sleep when you get back Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16,

Re: [Texascavers] Groad Hollow

Lenard Cohen? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16, 2019, at 8:25 PM, Barb wrote: > > Larry Cohen is an actual person - why is he in quotes? > ps tell him I said hi. > Barb Coons > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 16, 2019, at 6:47 PM, David wrote: >> >> Typo >> >> Rune Burnett >> >> Blake

Re: [Texascavers] [SWR CAVERS] Special Presentation at Carlsbad Caverns today!

George, it's been along time since I've seen you. I've always enjoyed your company and appreciate all you do for our karst ,cave and hydro resources! When you speak or post ,I listen! You are an old friend that has moved away but is fighting the good fight. Keep it up! I haven't made a local

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Convention

Locklear 2020 At least we could laugh instead of cry! Virus-free. www.avast.com

Re: [Texascavers] TC issue

Good idea Andy, Since I haven't seen a Texas Caver in way too long that might motivate me. I haven't been to the TSC Yet, I'm so glad Bill left us a place to call our Home Base! I'll do my best to be there in August and honor all our friends that have gone ahead. I think some kind of Memorial

Re: [Texascavers] an interesting news story

Interesting story, I'd like to see someone do it in a shipping container!. I've heard there are lots of them afloat and cause danger to boat navigation. I've also been a big fan of Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki since I was a kid. We had the picture book. Another interesting man who may still hold

Re: [Texascavers] Future caving off-world

You Funny! But please keep us up to date on the Nigerian and the person that allowed you to occupy their space! My Life would seam rather mundane if I didn’t receive your missives! Keep at it , one day it will pay off. Think “ Portnoy's complain “in reverse . Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 20,

Re: [Texascavers] [SWR CAVERS] FW: Invitation: Public lecture at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Aug. 2, 4pm

George,why did you wait till the last minute again! LOL ,I'm sure all this will be available online after the lecture anyway. The air seemed just fine the last time I was there! except for the morning of the burritos. Now if the drilling that has been approved goes through..., all bets are off!

Re: [Texascavers] an attempt at humor

Mister McFrolicer, It's best to stay off the moon landing and the Holocaust! Yes I question Every thing that our Govment does. Waco happened under Clinton's time. And I liked him and Mr Jimmy. They all did stuff , but Jimmy only lusted in his mind! I guess he was at TCR in the hot tub.We all

Re: [Texascavers] Houston related

David, How bout you send the $60 bucks and give the stereo away! Just a thought.Steve On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 2:52 PM David wrote: > If anybody in Houston area has something valuable to donate to the > announced caver-garage-sale, > > I am pondering the idea of going to it. > > David Locklear >

Re: [Texascavers] here's a fun use of the underground

The miners and engineers at the salt dome I worked at on Weeks Island in Louisiana would beg to differ on the no fluid flow and permeability line of thought. Morton salt has or had (1978) a large salt mine there and leaks would increase in size and flow at an alarming rate and had to be plugged

Re: [Texascavers] Low-gun

I too have tried everything but stopping by. I live in Bastrop and don't go to Austin unless I truly have to. I do have to take my brother to the airport on Friday, maybe I'll try then. On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 2:33 PM Marsha Meredith wrote: > Thanks. > > > On Dec 28, 2021, at 2:27 PM, Jim

Re: [Texascavers] Back in Texas

Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 25, 2021, at 7:55 PM, William R. Elliott wrote: > >  > Dear friends, > > Gayle and I just moved to Georgetown, Texas. We live at: > > 30105 Briarcrest Court > Georgetown, TX 78628 > > [please don’t repeat that on Facebook] > > My email and cell phone remain

Re: [Texascavers] Texascavers Digest, Vol 42, Issue 19

My vote for an water proof case is the Pelican box, fortunately Harbor Freight has the Apache brand for about 1/3rd the cost. The small one starting at $15. They seem to be well constructed and made of a good grade plastic, a good rubber seal and a vent valve. They even have the pluck foam insert.