texascavers Digest 18 Jul 2012 15:51:13 -0000 Issue 1591
Topics (messages 20352 through 20356):
book review: MAR bulletin 22
20352 by: Mixon Bill
Re: Good Deal on Rope
20353 by: Mark Minton
July Cowtown Grotto Meeting
20354 by: R D Milhollin
book review: underground in Arabia
20355 by: Mixon Bill
Environmental Job opening in San Antonio
20356 by: Geary Schindel
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"Karst of Sinking Valley and Kooken Cave, Huntingdon and Blair
Counties." Edited by William B. White. Mid-Appalachian Region Bulletin
21; 2012. 8.5 by 11 inches, 103 pages plus map plates, softbound.
$27.50 plus shipping (NSS members only); see www.caves.org/region/mar/pubs.htm
.
This is the first MAR bulletin since 1996, and most of the others are
county surveys. This new bulletin is an in-depth study of two major
(for Pennsylvania) caves and the geology and hydrology of their area.
Kooken Cave is 9035 feet long and 244 feet deep, and its history goes
back to the 1930s, when two entrances were dug in hopes of finding a
cave with commercial potential. The horizontal Tytoona–Arch Spring
Cave System has a much longer history because of its large and
conspicuous entrances, and it has been an NSS cave preserve since
1997. A past attempt to commercialize it, probably doomed in any case,
failed because a flood destroyed improvements. It would provide a
through-trip of almost five thousand feet, but with four sump dives. A
map of Tytoona is on three foldouts, and a map of Kooken Cave is on
two large, loose folded sheets, undesirable because of their tendency
to stray, but justified by the amount of detail. There is much that is
still unknown about the hydrogeology of Sinking Valley, and there is
potential for the discovery of additional large caves.
--Bill Mixon
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Highline is perfectly safe in my opinion. We've been using
it in Germany Valley without incident and I know of at least one U.
S. project in Mexico that uses it. The only complaint I've heard is
that sometimes the sheath slips a little and bunches up, but the same
thing can happen with PMI. All rope should be washed and dried
before use, which preshrinks it and also tightens the sheath. I just
bought five 600-foot spools of Highline on a different deal.
Mark
At 06:16 AM 7/16/2012, Preston Forsythe wrote:
So is that rope safe or not?
Preston in Muhlenberg Co., KY
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From: Alex Sproul
To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; Mark Minton
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:12 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] Re: [SWR] Good Deal on Rope
Highline is "ex-PMI" for good reasons. You shouldn't be pimping for
'em, Mark.
Alex
On 15 Jul 2012 at 21:39, Mark Minton wrote:
> Hgihline rope (ex-PMI Canada) will be available from the
> manufacturer for 40 cents per foot at Karst-O-Rama in Mount Vernon,
> KY <http://karstorama.com/> next weekend.
>
> Mark
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Attention all Cowtowners, cave type people and anyone interested in getting
underground.
The July meeting of the Cowtown Grotto will take place at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday,
July 17th at Backwoods Outfitters in Fort Worth. Please feel free to arrive
early to help get the meeting started on time.
Backwoods is located at: 2727 W. 7th Street, Fort Worth, Texas
http://www.backwoods.com/outdoor-gear-and-apparel-store-fort-worth-texas.html
Any and all are welcome! For more information about the Cowtown Grotto please
visit us at:www.cowtowngrotto.org.
Also check us out on Facebook.
The meeting will be in the upstairs portion of the store and will begin
promptly at 7:00 PM. There will be a presentation on our recent vertical
practice and Austin caving by David Stiles. So be sure to join us Tuesday
night!
At 8:00 PM we will adjourn to the Pour House Pub next door. Check them out at:
http://www.pour-house.com/
National Speleological Society web page:
http://www.caves.org/
Texas Speleological Association web page:
http://www.cavetexas.org
Texas Cave Conservancy web page:
www.texascaves.org
TCMA web page:
www.tcmacaves.org
We hope to see you there!
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"Underground in Arabia." John Pint. Selwa Press; 2012. ISBN
978-097011525-1. 5 by 8 inches, 150 pages. Softbound $14.95 according
to the bar code, but $12.95 according to Amazon; Kindle edition $4.99.
A nice little book of tales about the author's adventures exploring
caves in Saudi Arabia, both well-decorated limestone caves and large
lava tubes with lots of archaeological and paleontological potential.
It is clear that there is a lot more to be discovered underground in
Arabia, but the logistics and officialdom would likely be difficult.
Much of Pint's work was done while he was a consultant to the Saudi
Geological Survey. Local guides are essential, and the interactions
with the locals make for at least as interesting reading as the caving.
The book is clearly meant to be just an entertaining read, which it
is. There are no index, no bibliography, no cave maps, and only
scattered small black-and-white photographs. For a very nice coffee-
table book of color photographs, see Pint's The Desert Caves of Saudi
Arabia, ISBN 1-900988-48-8, still in the Amazon catalog for only a bit
more than twice the price of this new book. An extensive bibliography
is at www.saudicaves.com. The same web site also has a long list of
links to trip reports from the country.—Bill Mixon
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Northside Independent School District in San Antonio has an opening for an
Environmental Specialist. Paste the link into your browser to view the job
description and to apply on line.
http://info.nisd.net/human-resources/sites/default/files/job_descriptions/ENVIRONMENTAL%20SPECIALIST%20-%20FACILITIES%20%26%20OPERATIONS%20DEPT.%20009530.pdf
Geary
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