Soon after I started caving, I became interested in reading AMCS
newsletters. But it was
not easy for me to get my hands on an issue. I usually had to buy
one once a year at TCR,
in order to get the privilege to read it. But I was a college
student on a very tight budget. So,
it took me several years to get caught up on all the speleo-history of
the AMCS.
Today's new cavers don't realize how lucky they are.
Many issues are view-able online as PDF's, and can be saved on your
iPad, or e-Reader.
The one below mentions Richard M. Smith ( as a staff member of the newsletter )
http://digital.lib.usf.edu:8080/fedora/get/usfldc:A30-00009/DOCUMENT_PDF
Here is another:
http://www.cave-exploration.com/papers/Yaxchen-AMCS.pdf
It looks like quite a few of them are view-able from the KarstPortal site:
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1975-v001-January.pdf
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1975-v002-May.pdf
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1975-v003-October.pdf
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1976-v004-May.pdf
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1977-v005-January.pdf
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1977-v005-index.pdf
I look forward to the day, when I have a portable gadget where I can
easily manage
and retrieve all the cool caving information that has saturated the
internet. A creative caver
could sell a caver-modified iPad at the next NSS Convention that is
pre-loaded with
Speleo-Bloatware. That would be so awesome. How much extra would you pay
for an iPad 2, that had built-in apps just for cavers ? And how
would it be different from a
stock model ? ( e-mail me privately and I will share the comments
with others. )
David Locklear
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