texascavers Digest 28 Jun 2014 07:12:00 -0000 Issue 2000
Topics (messages 23983 through 23991):
Lava River Cave
23983 by: Lee H. Skinner
San Marcos Dig
23984 by: Jim Wolff
semi-related to a Houston caver
23985 by: [email protected]
23986 by: Gill Edigar
23987 by: Sheryl Rieck
After Gobbling Up Corvettes at Museum, Sinkhole Becomes a Star - NYTimes.com
23988 by: Joe Ranzau
Corvette Museum ?
23989 by: [email protected]
related to caves in movies
23990 by: [email protected]
Great Video Posted on TAGNet
23991 by: R D Milhollin
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https://www.yahoo.com/travel/a-terrifying-hike-into-the-heart-of-darkness-87825655537.html?tab=ytrav2014
Lee Skinner
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Bill Russell and myself will be digging in San Marcos this Saturday morning
till to hot. This is a surface dig on a sink about twelve feet deep 100 feet by
150 feet. Some dirt and rock were push in were the runoff goes. I have found
cricks and salamaders and have airflow. :)
Please contact me if you would like to help.
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I just learned a few minutes ago, that a former member of GHG has just been
released from the hospital, after falling off a roof on May 22nd. He claims
to have broken 5 bones including his back.
I will just call him Mark for the time -being.
Mark joined GHG around 1991 and came to most of the meetings for about 3 years.
He has been a police officer for about 24 years, most of that with the Houston
Police Dept.
I can not tell you much about him. Susan Herpin took him to the Guads, but
they never spoke of it again.
He claimed to have scuba dived in some Florida caves in 1990, but had never
done any dry caving.
He came across as a Gomer Pyle or, Barney Fife, and to the best of my knowledge
never made it on to any of the other trips going on. I was not living in
Houston at the time he was most active in GHG.
I can say he kept a yellow Texas bat-sticker on his old Toyota 4x4, for 15
years, so for that reason, I always considered him a caver.
Our paths have crossed several times a year in the duties of our job, since
then, and we accidentally had lunch about a year ago. At that time, he said he
had done some caving with non-caver friends in the Guard back in the 1990's.
He said he wanted to teach his kids about caving.
I know for a fact he sincerely wanted to go caving when he was at GHG. Also, I
think he had a hobby with ham radios. Had he had Facebook, and email, and
rexting back in 1993, he would have most likely hooked up with some cavers.
I do not know anybody that remembers him.
David Locklear
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Well, maybe if you called him something more than Mark some people could
add to the story. Huh? What's with all the secrecy?
--Ediger
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:41 PM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I just learned a few minutes ago, that a former member of GHG has just
> been released from the hospital, after falling off a roof on May 22nd. He
> claims to have broken 5 bones including his back.
>
> I will just call him Mark for the time -being.
>
> Mark joined GHG around 1991 and came to most of the meetings for about 3
> years.
>
> He has been a police officer for about 24 years, most of that with the
> Houston Police Dept.
>
> I can not tell you much about him. Susan Herpin took him to the Guads,
> but they never spoke of it again.
>
> He claimed to have scuba dived in some Florida caves in 1990, but had
> never done any dry caving.
>
> He came across as a Gomer Pyle or, Barney Fife, and to the best of my
> knowledge never made it on to any of the other trips going on. I was not
> living in Houston at the time he was most active in GHG.
>
> I can say he kept a yellow Texas bat-sticker on his old Toyota 4x4, for 15
> years, so for that reason, I always considered him a caver.
>
> Our paths have crossed several times a year in the duties of our job,
> since then, and we accidentally had lunch about a year ago. At that time,
> he said he had done some caving with non-caver friends in the Guard back in
> the 1990's. He said he wanted to teach his kids about caving.
>
> I know for a fact he sincerely wanted to go caving when he was at GHG.
> Also, I think he had a hobby with ham radios. Had he had Facebook, and
> email, and rexting back in 1993, he would have most likely hooked up with
> some cavers.
>
> I do not know anybody that remembers him.
>
> David Locklear
>
>
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I remember a guy named Terry, I think, that was a cop and came to meetings but
didn't seem to cave. That was in the late 90's though.
Sheryl
"You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime, you find you get
what you need" Rolling Stones
> On Jun 26, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Gill Edigar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Well, maybe if you called him something more than Mark some people could add
> to the story. Huh? What's with all the secrecy?
> --Ediger
>
>
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:41 PM, [email protected]
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just learned a few minutes ago, that a former member of GHG has just been
>> released from the hospital, after falling off a roof on May 22nd. He
>> claims to have broken 5 bones including his back.
>>
>> I will just call him Mark for the time -being.
>>
>> Mark joined GHG around 1991 and came to most of the meetings for about 3
>> years.
>>
>> He has been a police officer for about 24 years, most of that with the
>> Houston Police Dept.
>>
>> I can not tell you much about him. Susan Herpin took him to the Guads, but
>> they never spoke of it again.
>>
>> He claimed to have scuba dived in some Florida caves in 1990, but had never
>> done any dry caving.
>>
>> He came across as a Gomer Pyle or, Barney Fife, and to the best of my
>> knowledge never made it on to any of the other trips going on. I was not
>> living in Houston at the time he was most active in GHG.
>>
>> I can say he kept a yellow Texas bat-sticker on his old Toyota 4x4, for 15
>> years, so for that reason, I always considered him a caver.
>>
>> Our paths have crossed several times a year in the duties of our job, since
>> then, and we accidentally had lunch about a year ago. At that time, he said
>> he had done some caving with non-caver friends in the Guard back in the
>> 1990's. He said he wanted to teach his kids about caving.
>>
>> I know for a fact he sincerely wanted to go caving when he was at GHG.
>> Also, I think he had a hobby with ham radios. Had he had Facebook, and
>> email, and rexting back in 1993, he would have most likely hooked up with
>> some cavers.
>>
>> I do not know anybody that remembers him.
>>
>> David Locklear
>
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/us/kentucky-sinkhole-a-mixed-blessing-for-corvette-museum.html?referrer=
Joe
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I seem to recall a caver posting something after the collapse that the museum
would fair better as a sinkhole attraction ? ( just tooting my horn )
On a non-related note,
if any of you are unfortunate enough to be in Houston tomorrow,
Saturday, June 28th, I am finally having my 50th birthday shindig.
It is a informal quick lunch. Email me privately for details.
And on the other post, the former GHG member that was injured
was Mark Stevens, not Terry Scoggins.
I joked with Mark yesterday, that he was texting while taking down his
Christmas lights in May, but he didn't seem to appreciate my humor.
He said the
ladder fell.
The rest of this post is personal, so this is a good time to hit the
delete button:
Below are 2 links to personal photos:
Selfie ( 50th Birthday Portrait - just showing an HTC M8 example )
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1as6kieil1gn2fp/IMAG0017_1_1.jpg
a shot of the pool I just installed in my office-apartment near
downtown Houston,
which has the best view of the new MetroRail train. The purpose of which is
for any cavers to come over and relax.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6hw1vg0y4d5qir/Birthday%20Pool.jpg
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Most of us had no idea this was going on, but it was 10 years ago,
that movie makers were building an artificial cave in Pinewood
Studios, near London, for the filming
of a big horror film featuring cavers on a caving trip.
Here is a short video showing scenes from the building of the
artificial cave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThjshyWb7wM
Since it has few views, maybe a lot of cavers have not watched
it.
David Locklear
Ref:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evjKED5fjf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzLjSrD4hc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQTkiSeQzEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOuyrCMuJIY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S30QdbTz_0M
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>From 2012 by caving film makers in TAG
This captures a lot of the reasons why we are cavers
http://vimeo.com/m/45675051
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