Re: [Texascavers] UT Grotto Meeting - LOCATION CHANGE

Say jalapena, brother On Monday, June 5, 2017 6:49 PM, Aubri Jenson via Texascavers wrote: As of this week, we'll be back in Painter Hall 2.48 until August 23!  https://goo.gl/maps/Wun8LuQh7DR2 Aubri JensonUT Grotto Vice

Re: [Texascavers] Texas gypsum caves for sale

I don't know if I have room in my backyard for that big a cave.--Ediger On Monday, May 8, 2017 7:01 PM, Ben Hutchins via Texascavers wrote: This sign was posted in Quanah in Hardeman County.___ Texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] Movie by the Pond, at Pete Strickland's

Saw the play at the Hemisphere auditorium in San Antonio in (probably) '75.  On Thursday, November 10, 2016 10:07 PM, Bill Steele via Texascavers wrote: I saw the original play Hair in Chicago in 1969. Met TAG caving (he named TAG) legend Richard Schreiber

Re: [Texascavers] Grutas del Carrizal

 soil  and air, to send a laboratory. With the result of that test,  we can close the cave, if we don´t do that. They can open the cave for tourism an is a bad idea. Monica Ponce 2016-08-31 15:16 GMT-05:00 Gill Ediger via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com>: Moni--I would sugg

Re: [Texascavers] Grutas del Carrizal

Moni--I would suggest that you not visit Cueva de Carrizal and not take or send anyone else there. There have been sufficient incidents  of people getting histoplasmosis to warn them there is a danger of contacting a lung fungus. Only people with a known or demonstrated resistance to histo

Re: [Texascavers] service for Charlie Yates Aug 27th

Does anybody have a better address than that?  On Sunday, August 14, 2016 9:18 AM, Logan McNatt via Texascavers wrote: Received from Jon Vinson, Sun Aug 14th There is a small death notice in today’s Austin Statesman paper about Charlie.  It says

[Texascavers] Yates

So Charlie Yates is dead. Sorry to hear it. He was always possessed of a lot of energy and a big smile.  --Ediger___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives:

Re: [Texascavers] New Cave Paintings in Mexico

Wasn't there a similar find in that area 20 or 30 years ago? --Ediger On Thursday, June 30, 2016 9:06 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers wrote: That was a 2013 post on the BBC web site. From AMCS Activities Newsletter 36 (advertisement):

Re: [Texascavers] wind turbines and caves

I ran trains that hauled NYC trash to a landfill in Virginia. The trains that went to West Texas were made up of tank cars loaded with raw sewage which was being blown out onto the ground surface of a jillion acre ranch to be digeste by bacteria. Don't know what ever came of it. There was some

Re: [Texascavers] a caver question

You work for PTI, Scott? Railroad crew shuttle...? --Ediger On Sunday, June 19, 2016 11:22 PM, Scott Boyd via Texascavers wrote: I'm not obsessed with sports, but I did hear on the (TV) 10pm news that the final game of the basketball playoffs was tonight.

Re: [Texascavers] Houston grotto folks

So they tell you it has a nickname but they never tell what it is. --Ediger On Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:08 PM, "Roger Moore (cavera...@aol.com) via Texascavers" wrote: Yes, I've known about this cistern for some time, been at the entrance, and seen

Re: [Texascavers] ISO a rental room

All of my rooms are full, John. Is James a caver?  --Ediger On Thursday, February 18, 2016 10:07 PM, "htjo...@juno.com via Texascavers" wrote: My son James (age 34) is looking for a rental room in Austin or burbs to be close to his 2 kids who are with his

Re: [Texascavers] cave photography is perilous

Don't know who wrote that. I thin there was another grammar or spelling mistake in that first sentence or paragraph--Ediger On Friday, September 11, 2015 9:21 AM, Nancy Weaver via Texascavers wrote: you’ve got to wonder what sort of things he has to

[Texascavers] caves

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[Texascavers] John Cooper

Some of you older Texas and NSS cavers will remember John Cooper. He died a few days ago. I got the following note yesterday:     In case you hadn't heard of it yet, here is a link to his obituary. John's obituary and tributes can be viewed at:      

Re: [Texascavers] [TCR][Don's T-Shirt Trading Post]

I have between 50 and 100 mostly caving-themed T-shirts to donate to the cause. Maybe charge a buck or two for them and put the money in the pot. Since I have to carry glasses to read and a pad & pencil as memory aids I need a pocket on my shirt.  That means T-shirts are pretty much out

Re: [Texascavers] TCC Shutting Down - Working Together for 21 Years

Thanks for a respectable effort, Mike.--Ediger On Monday, July 20, 2015 10:52 AM, via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: !--#yiv7323472072 _filtered #yiv7323472072 {font-family:Cambria Math;panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv7323472072

Re: [Texascavers] grapevine cave

I used to keep a cable ladder under the porch, at Blake's nearby property, for use in Grapevine but the property has been sold and the cable ladder should probably have been retired years ago. --Ediger  On Saturday, July 4, 2015 9:25 PM, Ben Hutchins via Texascavers

Re: [Texascavers] Charlie Loving

gi...@att.net  On Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:41 AM, Ron Ralph via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: Please send contact information as my computer crashed and I am trying to rebuild. Ron ___ Texascavers mailing list |

Re: [Texascavers] TCR 2015 Survey

For everybody's benefit: The traditional date for TCR was not the 3rd weekend in October--and never had been. Disabuse yourselves of that idea. It was the weekend nearest to the 15th of October. Mostly it was the 3rd weekend of the month but sometimes it claimed the 2nd weekend. There were 2 or

Re: [Texascavers] TCR 2015 Survey

Even without water PC is better than anyplace else without water. Actually, I prefer Flat Creek at the all-around best site we ever had. It's still available but needs to be reserved early. One of the main criteria for a site is running water. Find 10 or 20 acres with river (or creek) frontage

Re: [Texascavers] Speleo-confessions

On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 7:20 AM, Charles Loving via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: Pooped in the righthand mile long crawl way passage of Tinaja On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Gill Ediger via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: We dumped spent carbide out in caves

Re: [Texascavers] Speleo-confessions

We dumped spent carbide out in caves when and in places we thought it wouldn't be a problem. --Ediger On Monday, December 22, 2014 8:27 PM, Jerry via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: You too ! I confess to smuggling cigarettes into underground camps that were longer than

Re: [Texascavers] Ok, who will confess to doing things in caves they weren't supposed to?

My sentiments exactly, Squeezebooger. Keep up the good work. --Ediger On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 11:56 AM, via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: Well, there was the time that I trapped a large group of people inside a cave after consuming all their drugs and alcohol. They

Re: [Texascavers] Cloud Room

I'm not familiar with the name Cloud Room and don't have account access to the photo sent with your post, Nico. Can somebody snag that pic and post it in the clear? I will try to compare it to any photos I might have. I think I shot all those in BW so may not have them readily to hand. We had a

Re: [Texascavers] Cloud Room

I just consulted my paper copy of the map and notice that I'd penciled in above the title 'Birthday Passage' the name 'Corredor Superior', which to me meant 'Upper Passage' at the time. I've come to discover that the word 'corredor' isn't usually used that way in Spanish. The proper term

Re: [Texascavers] Austin Caverns

How bout if 3 or 4 people just go into Austin Caverns and get us some realtime pictures and intel? --Ediger On Friday, December 19, 2014 3:34 PM, Stefan Creaser via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: It’s around the corner from my house. I could take a picture of it this

Re: [Texascavers] Cloud Room

pasillo to describe some part of a house El dic 19, 2014 12:08 PM, Gill Ediger via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com escribió: I just consulted my paper copy of the map and notice that I'd penciled in above the title 'Birthday Passage' the name 'Corredor Superior', which to me meant

Re: [Texascavers] no further comment department

If you don't bet, you can't lose. --Ediger On Monday, December 8, 2014 8:32 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: The NSS budget for the current fiscal year has not yet made it onto the NSS web site, but here's a summary of budgeted expenditures: $358K

Re: [Texascavers] Carrizal

I first went to Carrizal in 1967 and there was already a sign on the building there between the 2 entrances warning of the histo danger. I was raised with chickens so have a high histo resistance. We went caving there a dozen or more times with small and large groups and I don't recall that

Re: [Texascavers] Fwd: EARTH: Valley Fever an Occupational Hazard forGeoscientists

Well, if it's coccidio it's just one of the big 3--Histo, Coccidio, and Blasto that are normally tested for. --Ediger On Monday, September 15, 2014 3:59 PM, dave belski via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: On 9/15/2014 1:32 PM, Gill Ediger via Texascavers wrote: Many of us

Re: [Texascavers] Fwd: EARTH: Valley Fever an Occupational Hazard forGeoscientists

Many of us have had relapsing fever which is not a fungus. --Ediger On Sunday, September 14, 2014 6:35 PM, Ron Ralph via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com wrote: I have had it along with most California archeologists. it almost killed McEachern. Ron From: Julia Germany via

[Texascavers] tcr

TCR--On this day (the Friday before Labor Day) in 1978 the participants in the 1st Texas Cavers Reunion (TOTR at the time) were gathering at the old cotton gin in Luckenbach, Texas--89 of um as I recall.___ Texascavers mailing list |