texascavers Digest 3 Aug 2010 18:08:30 -0000 Issue 1126
Topics (messages 15687 through 15691):
Re: Locklear sighting
15687 by: Fritz Holt
Re: TCR sites
15688 by: Fritz Holt
15689 by: ryan monjaras
15691 by: Fritz Holt
Re: Jim's Final Journey
15690 by: Ed Goff
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I hear tell, men are from Mars.
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From: Barb Coons (Capocy) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 7:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Locklear sighting
Aw man, there was a pool? How did I miss that?
At the Howdy party he was seen have a lively discussion with Don (Coons) about
what clothing would be appropriate for a cave expedition to Mars. Oh my.
Barb
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From: "Jim Kennedy" <[email protected]>
To: "CaveTex" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Texascavers] Locklear sighting
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:06:36 -0400
It lives! Locklear actually made it to the NSS Convention in time for
the Howdy Party. Who had Monday at 5:30 in the arrival pool?
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Yeah, it tends to keep us riff raff away, Andy.
Fritz
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From: Andy Gluesenkamp [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 8:14 PM
To: 'Bill Bentley'; Texascavers Mailing List; Fritz Holt
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
I think of it as more of a filter, Fritz.
Andrew G. Gluesenkamp, Ph.D.
700 Billie Brooks Drive
Driftwood, Texas 78619
(512) 799-1095
[email protected]
--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Fritz Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Fritz Holt <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
To: "'Bill Bentley'" <[email protected]>, "Texascavers Mailing List"
<[email protected]>
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 5:38 PM
Nothing against the western reaches except the time and expense to get there
for us unfortunates in Houston, Dallas and points east.
Fritz
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From: Bill Bentley [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 6:36 PM
To: Texascavers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] TCR sites
What have you all got against the West? What is this not too far West
requirement? Texas is a big state from El Paso to Texarkana ...
:)
Bill
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From: Stefan Creaser</mc/[email protected]>
To: [email protected]</mc/[email protected]> ;
[email protected]</mc/[email protected]> ;
Sheryl Rieck</mc/[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
That's as maybe, but it seems to violate the "not too far west" requirement...
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who you callin riff-raff, street rat... : )
"Semper Exploro" Ryan MonjarasMaverick GrottoCowtown GrottoDFW
Grotto(832)754-5778
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:10:01 -0500
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
Yeah, it tends to keep us riff raff away,
Andy.
Fritz
From: Andy Gluesenkamp
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 8:14
PM
To: 'Bill
Bentley'; Texascavers Mailing List; Fritz
Holt
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR
sites
I think of it as more of a filter, Fritz.
Andrew G. Gluesenkamp, Ph.D.
700 Billie Brooks Drive
Driftwood, Texas 78619
(512) 799-1095
[email protected]
--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Fritz
Holt <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Fritz Holt <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
To: "'Bill Bentley'"
<[email protected]>, "Texascavers Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 5:38 PM
Nothing against the
western reaches except the time and expense to get there for us unfortunates
in Houston, Dallas
and points east.
Fritz
From: Bill Bentley [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010
6:36 PM
To: Texascavers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] TCR
sites
What have you all got against the
West? What is this not too far West requirement? Texas
is a big state from El Paso to Texarkana ...
:)
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Stefan
Creaser
To: [email protected]
; [email protected]
; Sheryl
Rieck
Sent: Monday,
August 02, 2010 2:39 PM
Subject: RE:
[Texascavers] TCR sites
That’s as
maybe, but it seems to violate the “not too far west”
requirement…
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If the boot fits---
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From: ryan monjaras [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:41 PM
To: Fritz Holt; texas cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
who you callin riff-raff, street rat... : )
"Semper Exploro"
Ryan Monjaras
Maverick Grotto
Cowtown Grotto
DFW Grotto
(832)754-5778
________________________________
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:10:01 -0500
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
Yeah, it tends to keep us riff raff away, Andy.
Fritz
________________________________
From: Andy Gluesenkamp [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 8:14 PM
To: 'Bill Bentley'; Texascavers Mailing List; Fritz Holt
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
I think of it as more of a filter, Fritz.
Andrew G. Gluesenkamp, Ph.D.
700 Billie Brooks Drive
Driftwood, Texas 78619
(512) 799-1095
[email protected]
--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Fritz Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Fritz Holt <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
To: "'Bill Bentley'" <[email protected]>, "Texascavers Mailing List"
<[email protected]>
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 5:38 PM
Nothing against the western reaches except the time and expense to get there
for us unfortunates in Houston, Dallas and points east.
Fritz
________________________________
From: Bill Bentley [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 6:36 PM
To: Texascavers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] TCR sites
What have you all got against the West? What is this not too far West
requirement? Texas is a big state from El Paso to Texarkana ...
:)
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Stefan Creaser<http://mc/[email protected]>
To: [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> ;
[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> ;
Sheryl Rieck<http://mc/[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] TCR sites
That's as maybe, but it seems to violate the "not too far west" requirement...
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This is very sad news. I only got to meet Jim once, on a weeklong caving trip
in "The Bob" Marshall Wilderness in Montana a few years ago, and I've never
forgotten what a great guy he is. I don't think I've ever met a nicer person. I
have a fond memory of how he hiked me into the ground, at nearly twice my age,
on the last day of the trip when the two of us took off to look for entrances
above a resurgence and covered about 20 miles together. Afterward, my feet were
so swollen I couldn't get them back into my shoes. (Needless to say, his feet
were fine.) I wish I could remember what he said about that, but I just
remember that it was both funny AND gracious.
Ed
> For those interested (and there will be at least a couple), I pass this along.
> John
>
>
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> From: michael mceachern
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:51 AM
> Subject: FW: Jim's Final Journey
>
> To NRMG Members:
>
> Jim Chester, Montana's premier caver, died on Saturday, July 31. I am
> passing along this email for our grotto president (Mike is in the Bob
> Marshall on a caving trip). Some of you might want to attend the memorial
> service on Monday.
>
> Nancy Boice
> Sec/ NRMG
>
> Subject: Fw: Jim's Final Journey
> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 05:21:23 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> From: Susan Conrad <[email protected]>
> Sent: Mon Aug 02 20:12:59 2010
> Subject: Jim's Final Journey
>
> "There is a spiritual presence which can aptly cushion our every fall,
> bringing comfort and subtle meaning to our lives. However, we'll not feel
> this gentle comfort unless we attune ourselves to the others in our company.
> It's within another's soul that we sense the beacon of light which
> illuminates the way we're traveling."
> — author unknown
>
> Jim Chester was a beacon of light for me, undoubtedly. He guided me, inspired
> me, and kept many of you informed during my personal journey up the Inside
> Passage of British Columbia and Southeast Alaska earlier this summer.
>
> An email seems so stark, so impersonal, even soul-less for something of this
> nature but I know of no other way to inform all the friends and loved ones
> whose lives he touched immeasurably. After a 4 week struggle in the aftermath
> of quadruple bypass surgery complicated by renal failure, Jim Chester passed
> away at his Eureka, Montana home on July 30th. He experienced 66 years of
> living life to the absolute fullest. His life philosophy was to follow his
> curiosity and see where it led him. It led him to many special places; to the
> oceans deep, to the mountains high, to the depths of caverns and the love of
> life and discovery and exploration. It also led him to many special people -
> all of you.
>
> Many of you never had the opportunity to meet this brilliant, compassionate,
> incredibly rare man but did come to know him through his eloquent words as he
> kept you posted on my journey up the Inside Passage. He was with me every
> stroke of the way, and brought you all along for the ride. And what a thrill
> it was - Jim's final adventure with me, with all of us. In the end, he
> confidently and proudly confronted his health issues, well aware that his own
> personal "medical Cape Caution" as he referred to it, loomed on the horizon
> with much at stake.
>
> I was the last one to see and speak with Jim, the day before he died. He
> talked about the day he would be able to cave, hike, ski and kayak again...
> We reminiscenced and I assured him he would one day be doing those physical
> activities which he loved so much again - soon. I was, unfortunately, wrong.
> The adventure is over but the adventurer will never be forgotten.
>
> Jim had an impressive list of accomplishments in his life. Here is a brief
> synopsis:
> Jim’s passion was cave exploration, specifically of the alpine wilderness
> cave systems of Montana. He was a Fellow of The Explorers Club and The
> National Speleological Society. The NSS has recognized Jim's achievements
> with their highest award for exploration. He served on the Board of Directors
> of The Alpine Karst Foundation and was a member of The U.S. Cave Exploration
> Committee of the NSS. He was past editor of Alpine Karst, and author (ghost)
> of the latest edition of the Boy Scouts of America Orienteering Merit Badge
> Booklet. He was the chapters editor for The Explorers Log. He kayaked nearly
> 2000 ocean miles; dived thermal features in Yellowstone National Park;
> rappelled into a 240 foot well in a European medieval castle and discovered a
> new species of amphipod in a Glacier National Park Cave. Jim has carried The
> Explorers Club Flag twice, once in 2007 and once in 2009. Jim was the
> recipient of The 2005 Vancouver Award of The Pacific Northwest Chapter and
> was the 2010 Explorers Club Citation of Merit Awardee for outstanding service
> to the Explorers Club as the Chapters Editor of The Explorers Log and for his
> extraordinary contributions to the field of cave exploration.
>
> Jim’s wishes were to be cremated. A reception honoring his life will be held
> at the Rexford Bench day use area on Lake Koocanusa, in Rexford, Montana on
> Monday, August 9 at 3 p.m. All are invited to attend. In lieu of flowers
> donations may be made to the Explorers Club Youth Expedition Scholarship Fund
> in care of Maura Glikas, The Explorers Club, 46 E. 70th St., New York, NY
> 10021.
>
> With Deep Regrets and Best Regards,
> Susan
> 406.249.8086
>
> P.S. The location for the reception may change and if so I will be sure to
> let everyone know.
>
>
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