texascavers Digest 1 Aug 2010 20:03:15 -0000 Issue 1117
Topics (messages 15613 through 15616):
Re: personal - heading east
15613 by: Stephen Fleming
Re: Region 3 USFS cave closures are official
15614 by: Lee H. Skinner
Personal Road-trip Report 4 of 20
15615 by: David
2010 Texas Cavers Reunion!
15616 by: Allan Cobb
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From: David [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:05 AM
To: Cavers Texas
Subject: [Texascavers] personal - heading east
I decided to not take anybody's advice.
I will be driving my mini-van in the direction towards Vermont.
Okay, David, all well and good. But, I want to know why you didn't take
Ediger up on his offer on Feb 1? Surely this would have been easier than
all the gymnastics you've gone through in the interim. Yeah, you'd have
been gone 2 weeks, but you might be gone that long anyway (or longer,
depending on the criminal records of your riders) and the overall cost
of trip vs. income probably would have been less. Plus, you wouldn't be
running the risk of being punched in the head by somebody you don't know
that you found on CreepsList. This whole episode has a type of Occam's
razor quality about it. The simplest solution was dismissed in favor of
a complicated process, comprised of infinite variables, with no
guarantees of success.
Oh well, best of luck...and watch your back. Do it differently next
year. Ediger's last line, below, probably still is true, at least with
respect to your drive.
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Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Vermont NSS Convention info
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:13:41 -0600
From: Gill Edigar <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To everyone--I have been thinking about putting the SpeleoCamper on my
or someone else's truck, filling it with 8 or 10 Texas cavers, and
making the run up to the Vermont NSS Convention--sorta like in the old
daze--stopping along the way at various caves of interest--mainly
commercial such as Mammoth. Participants should plan on 2 weeks or
more--and all for little more than the price of diesel.
Anybody with an inkling to go along should lemme know.
*David, you'll be in charge of getting up the list and keeping people
informed. *
This promises to be an adventure of a lifetime.
--Ediger
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:30 PM, David <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Have any Texas cavers out there decided yet if they are going to the NSS
Convention?
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On 7/30/2010 10:39 AM, Louise Powers wrote (in Texas Cavers list):
Region 3 USFS cave closures are official
Please note that this refers to Region 2 (Colorado, South Dakota,
Wyoming), not Region 3 (New Mexico and Arizona). Region 3 is still in
the planning stage.
Lee Skinner
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It is Sunday morning, and the relaxing part of my vacation began a few
hours ago.
My current status, is I have a front row seat to a folk musician, who
is playing an
acoustic version of "Norwegian Wood."
The musician is Sharon Klien. The roadside coffee-house is an upscale one,
a few miles east of the infamous town of Woodstock. The place is called
"Cafe' Mezzaluna - Bistro Latino."
I am just now studying the New York map for the first time and drinking
some organic pomegranate flavored red tea with goji berry.
My 1st report entitled "42 Hours of Hell," will have to wait until I have
my few remaining brain cells re-fragmented.
Hell ended about about 5 a.m. this morning when I stumbled on to
a KOA campground at Woodstock at dusk. I woke up to find myself
in what may be the best KOA campground in the U.S. It was on the
edge of the Catskill area. Best frisbee golf course I have ever seen.
The manager did not charge me for staying or taking a hot shower.
So I bought an expensive breakfast from him. It turned out to be
the best meal I have had in the last week, and probably something
I can't get in Houston. Sort of a giant toasted kolache with philly
cheesesteak ingredients. They called it a "baguette."
The musician is pretty good. She has a
soft jazzy voice. She is selling her debut CD.
The patrons of the cafe are the kind of people that hang out
in coffee houses in in the Texas hill country - a mix of retired hippie
bikers meeting other friends, except their faces look ethically different,
and the accents sound like something off of Sienfield, or Archie
Bunker, drowning out the sound of the beautiful music.
Report # 2, entitled "Saturday night in Manhattan in a loaded down
mini-van, chasing a loose bird down the street," will also have to
wait till I am in the proper frame of mind to write it.
Report # 3, "Lost in Manhattan on a Sunday morning," will be posted as soon
as I can find some time.
The predicament I face now is more of making a decision of
whether I want to enjoy my vacation, or risk continuing north
solo towards Essex Junction which is a 5 hour drive that I would
like to do in 24 hours.
The rational thing to do for me would be to spend the day in the
Catskill Mountains and get a cabin and just chill, and then head
south stopping at all the commercial caves along the way home
over a week long period.
But how can I do that, when I am so close to the NSS Convention?
The herd of 7 bikers just left, and I will soon follow.
To be continued ...
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Howdy y'all,
Here is the first announcement for the 33rd Annual Texas Cavers Reunion.
This year TCR will be on the 3100 acre Hidden Falls Adventure Park
(www.hiddenfallsadventurepark.com) on the weekend of October 15-17. The
ranch is conveniently located just 5 miles east of Marble Falls on FM1431.
There will be lots of shady camping. You can bring your 4WD, ATV, dirt
bike, or mountain bike and enjoy the off-road trails throughout the
property. It is likely that we will once again offer the Slow Race so brush
up on your off-road driving skills. More info may be found at
www.oztotl.com. We will have the usual fun stuff.
Hope to see you there!
Allan
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