texascavers Digest 27 Jul 2009 21:09:54 -0000 Issue 806
Topics (messages 11416 through 11442):
Saturday afternoon ICS report - personal
11416 by: David
ICS Banquet - personal report
11417 by: David
Logan Library clean-up report
11418 by: David
11419 by: Don Cooper
Sunday afternoon campus report
11420 by: David
hooray for texas cavers
11421 by: Nancy Weaver
hooray for texas cavers/for those who feel left out
11422 by: Nancy Weaver
Niki Lake
11423 by: Nancy Weaver
TSA sales
11424 by: Ron Ralph
11425 by: germanyj.aol.com
Paging Peter Sprouse...
11426 by: Mallory Mayeux
ICS
11427 by: Denise P
11429 by: Don Arburn
ICS 2
11428 by: Denise P
ICS THANKS!!!
11430 by: Travis Scott
What it TAKES -- You got it... ICS TEXAS!
11431 by: Linda Palit
11433 by: Allan Cobb
11434 by: Mark.Alman.l-3com.com
11435 by: Allan Cobb
11436 by: vivbone.att.net
11437 by: Travis Scott
11438 by: Allan Cobb
11439 by: Don Arburn
Re: "Cavers explore the unexplored"
11432 by: Joe & Evelynn Mitchell
Awesome Headlamp?
11440 by: Travis Scott
11441 by: germanyj.aol.com
11442 by: Nico Escamilla
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While in town, I did some shopping at a resale shop and found
something I have been looking for
for a long time for only $ 10.
Meanwhile,
My mini-yard sale continued to draw visitors from around camp. I had
left all the junk out for
potential buyers to browse. Nothing appears to have been stolen,
but the wind blew a nice picture
over and busted all the glass to pieces. I would have probably
sold everything had
I been willing to babysit the stuff all week.
I tried to volunteer for van driving, but by the time I got there,
they had it covered.
I seemed to keep losing things, and wandered around campus like an
altzheimer's patient looking
for these things. Fortunately, I eventually found them. Thanks
to whoever put my hat in the
L&F.
Later,
I invited a British couple to take a tour of the back roads around the
town of Centerpoint
and show them the swimming hole at Brink's Crossing on the Guadalupe River.
They were Mr. & Mrs. Checkley of the British Cave Research Foundation ( BCRA )
http://bcra.org.uk/pub/cs/covers/j18.jpg
I dropped them off at the ICS Banquet.
Later in the evening, cavers dropped by my camp and bought more stuff. Dave
McLung made a $ 40 donation to the cause.
Cavers partied at Groad Hollow till 2 in the morning, but not as wild
as the Friday
night party. I slept thru it all this time.
The weather for camping Saturday night was great. I never put on
any insect repellent
the entire ICS while camping 9 days ( maybe 10 if I camp tonight ).
to be cont'd...
David Locklear
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I almost skipped the banquet and was thinking about go swimming in the
Guadalupe River again. But Jay Jorden, convinced me that I should
not miss it.
The Banquet ran smoothly.
I think that is due in part to the practice run they had the night before.
The weather seemed to be a little cooler. Caver's may have dressed
more comfortably than they did for the previous night. I know I did.
The food was the best I have ever had at any banquet. The grilled
vegetables were super delicious. They did run out of those, so
I hope everybody got to try them. I had 2 giant plates of food.
I was so full, that I did not get to try the desert.
I presume the buses and vans worked better, because they
had a better idea what to expect.
It seemed cavers were more layed back and sociable, but that
may be due to it being the grand finale of the event.
The keynote speaker had a pleasant voice and was a dignitary
with the Dept. of Interior. My personal viewpoint, and I don't
mean to hurt anybody's feelings, is that she really didn't have
anything to say that caver's did not already know. For example,
in Michigan, they had a unknown guy give a talk about gating
mines to protect caves. I think people were surprised to learn
of his solo conservation efforts. I think the important thing
about her speech was that it gave her a chance to bond with
cavers and vice versa. Having a person in her position friendly
to cavers is obviously a worthy goal to try to achieve.
My only comment about the banquet, was there were still too
many rude cavers talking during the speeches. And some
of my comments about the NSS Banquet apply.
I am glad I attended the ICS Banquet. I met 3 cavers from
the Yucatan that I had not met previously at ICS.
David Locklear
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A small group of very hard-working people led by Rune Burnet cleaned
the libary after ICS.
His team included Susan Souby, Rene Sheilds, Gary Napper, Orion Knox,
and Don Cooper.
Others, including myself, chipped in. Kim Flieshman ? Dave Lester.
The labor involved disassembling a giant wall made out of 2x4's and about
40 heavy sheets of 4x8 OSB board.
All of this had to be hand-carried out to Burnet's trailer, because the libary
did not have a loading dock.
Eventually, enough volunteers showed up, but then we didn't have enough
cordless drills to work efficiently.
Meanwhile, Jim Kennedy worked to try to organize the maps and medals
for the cavers to collect. After several hours of doing that solo, he
eventually packed up and left.
Also, in the background, the Shrewsbury's were packing up the artwork
for the art salon. The UPS office was closed, so it was decided
to entrust about $ 1 million dollars worth of artwork to me, and to put
in my van in hopes that I would drop it off at a UPS store. ( I will post
a story about that later. )
After loading all the heavy wood on the trailer, a Colorado caver showed up
to buy it for the 2011 convention, so some of it had to be off-loaded onto
his truck. It would have been convenient if he could have come by an hour
sooner.
Afterwards, only 4 cavers stayed to clean the libary:
Orion Knox, Rene Shields and Susan Souby and myself.
I walked the library and could not find anything else that could be done
without the instruction of the campus personnel.
The facility, in my opinion, is ready to open back up to public visitors.
There are quite a few wood shavings in the carpet that the janitor will
have fun vacuuming up. I am sure the librarian will have to re-arrange the
furniture. But I don't see how they can complain about how cavers
left their library.
About 4 cavers are still using the internet, but other than that the building
is empty.
There is a box of art supplies ( Karen Veni ?? or Conrad Schriener ?? )
sitting on the back porch along with a tire to an offroad vehicle.
David Locklear
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David - I would have stayed, but I was on-schedule to take another van back
to San Antonio.
I think you're also part of the group doing the next run at 6:30p.
-WaV
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> A small group of very hard-working people led by Rune Burnet cleaned
> the libary after ICS.
>
> His team included Susan Souby, Rene Sheilds, Gary Napper, Orion Knox,
> and Don Cooper.
>
> Others, including myself, chipped in. Kim Flieshman ? Dave Lester.
>
> The labor involved disassembling a giant wall made out of 2x4's and about
> 40 heavy sheets of 4x8 OSB board.
>
> All of this had to be hand-carried out to Burnet's trailer, because the
> libary
> did not have a loading dock.
>
> Eventually, enough volunteers showed up, but then we didn't have enough
> cordless drills to work efficiently.
>
> Meanwhile, Jim Kennedy worked to try to organize the maps and medals
> for the cavers to collect. After several hours of doing that solo, he
> eventually packed up and left.
>
> Also, in the background, the Shrewsbury's were packing up the artwork
> for the art salon. The UPS office was closed, so it was decided
> to entrust about $ 1 million dollars worth of artwork to me, and to put
> in my van in hopes that I would drop it off at a UPS store. ( I will post
> a story about that later. )
>
> After loading all the heavy wood on the trailer, a Colorado caver showed up
> to buy it for the 2011 convention, so some of it had to be off-loaded onto
> his truck. It would have been convenient if he could have come by an
> hour
> sooner.
>
> Afterwards, only 4 cavers stayed to clean the libary:
>
> Orion Knox, Rene Shields and Susan Souby and myself.
>
> I walked the library and could not find anything else that could be done
> without the instruction of the campus personnel.
>
> The facility, in my opinion, is ready to open back up to public visitors.
> There are quite a few wood shavings in the carpet that the janitor will
> have fun vacuuming up. I am sure the librarian will have to re-arrange
> the
> furniture. But I don't see how they can complain about how cavers
> left their library.
>
> About 4 cavers are still using the internet, but other than that the
> building
> is empty.
>
> There is a box of art supplies ( Karen Veni ?? or Conrad Schriener ?? )
> sitting on the back porch along with a tire to an offroad vehicle.
>
> David Locklear
>
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Bev Shade has organized an army of 3 cavers to clean the Weir Building. They
are working very hard carrying 30 plus heavy wooden tables outside to
some flat-dolleys.
I chipped in some, and I think another caver did to, Terry Holsinger ??.
Did you know how heavy 8 foot solid wood tables are? They had to go down one
flight of stairs becuase that was easier than trying to squeeze them
into the tiny
elevator.
The main brunt of the labor is Heather Tucek and Joe Datri, and
Maureen ( ? ) Russo.
The building student aid is helping some with elevator management.
SpeleoBooks and SpeleoProjects are almost done packing their boxes as
of 5:30 p.m. Emily had a difficult task, but fortunately she had 2 people
working very hard to make it less difficult on her.
Back at the Logan Library,
John Cradit did a walk-thru and found it to be clean.
There are 8 cavers here now surfing the web.
Over at the Cailloux Center,
there are still has a few cavers wandering around, and registration
is packing up. There is still plenty of cleaning to do there.
The campground shower stalls no longer have a roof.
Campground has thinned down to the remaining volunteers. Rumor
is, there is a party tonight at the campground pavilion with beer.
Buses and vans have been running all day taking cavers back to
the airport in San Antonio. I presume that Ann Scott and Don
Arburn are about to pull their hair out.
Maybe a few people have gone caving ??
The pool is open.
I know many people are heading off to post-congress trips across
the country. I presume they have already left for that are about
to.
Rumor is that a handful of die-hard volunteers will be on campus
Monday working very hard. Contractors are supposed to show
up and remove heavy items that were rented and someone has
to be here to help them.
I plan to camp out my 10th night here, but I am certain I am leaving
by Monday evening, if not sooner.
Rumor is that Pete Strickland will keep the hot tub open one more
night. That is going to be a butt-load of hard work to pack up all of that
and store it somewhere.
Did I leave off anything important?
David Locklear
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For the past 6 months I've written to cajole, harrangue and generally
beat the bushes for volunteers for ICS. Well all of you came through
spectacularly to create an event that every participant I spoke with
had nothing but praise for. There were those of you that worked
round the clock, and behind the scenes and pretty much thanklessly,
so THANK YOU, you were seen and appreciated. and those that stepped
in whenever there was a need no matter how bizarre - pump beer for 4
hours? take a visitor to mass? make a flight change in chinese?
What I admire far and away about cavers is not our science or
explorations or photography or presentations but that wonderful
ingenuity, sense of humour (mechanical bull, putting tee by the
portapotty) general willingness to jump right in whenever and
wherever something needs to get done and generosity of community.
Hooray for all of us,
Nancy
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We are all texas cavers as far as I'm concerned.
Nancy
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please contact me off post.
Nancy
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Cavers,
ICS is over but the unpacking remains. We will schlep the TSA gear upstairs
(three flights) to the TSS office at the Pickle Centre Tuesday evening
beginning at 6:30 pm. Please give us a hand in this monumental task.
Ron Ralph, TSS
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How much did the TSA make during the ICS?? Was it worth all that schlepping?
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From: Ron Ralph <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 10:24 am
Subject: [Texascavers] TSA sales
Cavers,
?
ICS is over but the unpacking remains. We
will schlep the TSA gear upstairs (three flights) to the TSS office at the
Pickle Centre Tuesday evening beginning at 6:30 pm. Please give us a hand in
this monumental task.
?
Ron Ralph, TSS
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Please contact me off list--I still have your orange helmet from the rebelay
course and would like to get that back to you.
Mallory Mayeux
[email protected]
225-933-9885
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Wow, what a great convention! I had a blast. It seemed to come together despite
fears of chaos and terrible heat. I think everyone was impressed and had a
wonderful time. Great job, George Veni! And I know there were tons of people
who spent all their convention time volunteering, but I'd like to give a shout
out to the transportation coordinators, Don Arburn and Ann Scott, and the
caving trip coordinator, Travis Scott, as I personally observed their trials,
travails, and round-the-clock hard work. And to the Terminal Syphons, who
volunteered so much time and sounded especially great this year. Four hours of
rocking without a break!
Geat job folks!!!!
Cheers,
Denise
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And great THANKS to Denise and Dale for which without we could not
have done what needed to be done. You guys are the real HEROES!!
Don's iPhone.
On Jul 27, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Denise P <[email protected]> wrote:
Wow, what a great convention! I had a blast. It seemed to come
together despite fears of chaos and terrible heat. I think everyone
was impressed and had a wonderful time. Great job, George Veni! And
I know there were tons of people who spent all their convention time
volunteering, but I'd like to give a shout out to the transportation
coordinators, Don Arburn and Ann Scott, and the caving trip
coordinator, Travis Scott, as I personally observed their trials,
travails, and round-the-clock hard work. And to the Terminal
Syphons, who volunteered so much time and sounded especially great
this year. Four hours of rocking without a break!
Geat job folks!!!!
Cheers,
Denise
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Oops, I also meant to say a big thanks to Pete Strickland (and all his helpers)
for his cool pool, hot tub, and sauna. Pete is the king of hot tubs and works
non-stop to make this area one of the best spots at the caving conventions. I
heard many people saying how much they enjoyed it, so I hope it was worth the
trouble, Pete!
Cheers,
Denise
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Cavers,
The ICS was a great success in my mind. I didn't get to step back and
be a part of most of the events, but from what I heard it was overall a
great success.
Many people have said that there were a a hand full of Texas cavers
working their tails off and I just wanted to tell them all THANKS!!!.
You know who you are, cause you are probably still asleep and trying to
catch up!! They really put in a lot of seriously hard work, dealt with
a lot of stress, and very little sleep, all behind the scenes, AND FOR
FREE, to make this happen. There are too many to list them all
individually and I would probably accidentally leave a few names out if
tried to list them all, but they really pulled through.
I must give public props and serious thanks to a few who worked directly
under me to help make the day caving trips happen. If you read through
this, you will begin to realize how much was given by sooooo many to
make this happen, and this is only for the day caving trips! It
doesn't include transportation and registration (I feel for them, they
were amazing), banquets, and so many other portions of the ICS...
These include Joe Mitchell who helped me along way and all week in most
everything, the awesome crew from A.S.S. who came out and stayed all 9
days or as long as they could doing whatever I asked them (seriously,
couldn't have done it without you), lead and helped lead caving trips
almost every day, AND volunteered for other people as well including
Drew and Alex Wendeborn, Amanda Bentley, Megan Files, TJ Tidwell,
Chelsea Bergoine, and Zach Broussard, Sam Cuellar.
Allan Cobb for all the awesome assistance and very necessary early
morning coffee delivery :-). Matt Turner, Christi Burrell, Marvin
Miller, Peter Sprouse, Julia Germany, Rob Bisset, Mark Alman, Bill
Steele, Kurt Menking, Lyndon Tiu, Mike Harris, Joe Mitchell and Geary
Schindel who contacted and worked out access to the caves, coordinated
and organized a slew of countless helpers under them, and made trips
happen to these caves all week long. Some like Rob caved on every trip
to a VERY difficult cave (hope you are recovering ok!)
Julia Germany for organizing the super complicated Wed. Kickapoo trip,
Jerry Atkinson for all his help on the Wed. Kickapoo trip, Mark Alman
(and family) for all the pre-ICS work at Longhorn and trip leading.
Zach Schudrowitz, Matt Turner and Stephen Howe for all their last minute
help with the vans, Dob Auburn for being great to work with and not
killing me for all the lost vans! Lee Ann Dean and Wayne Hutchinson who
stayed out at Kickapoo to help lead trips.
Countless land owners who allowed us access to their caves for
relatively nothing in return, especially the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department!!! The Devil's Sinkhole Society who allowed us random
unscheduled trips to see the Devil's Sinkhole on the way back from
Kickapoo Caverns.
And very importantly, Shiner, Becker vineyards, and Pete Strickland (hot
tub) who provided much ease and relief after so many a long hard day.
I have a list of over 80 names of people that played roles in the day
caving trips, from as much as caving EVERY day of the ICS to helping out
by moving stuff from one van to the next for me so that all of the day
trips could happen. That is a lot of people and there is no way I can
thank them all for the assistance. If I missed your name, it was a long
week and I am still in recovery mode, I am sorry and Thank you too!
To sum up, THANKS for all the hard work by everyone I worked with!!!
Maybe I should have just said that and kept it short huh? Nah, they
deserve the props!
As a side note, Texans can put on one hell of a party huh?
--
Travis Scott
979.450.0103 Cell
[email protected]
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Many, many Texas Cavers stepped up to do a part to make ICS happen! A few
more THANKS! are in order -- in addition to all those mentioned before. I'll
try not to list people already mentioned.
Things were not perfect, but they happened, and mostly smoothly.
Bev Shade came back from Argentina to deal with facilities. She was still
loading tables and tearing down when I was back to Kerrville about noon
today. Bev made sure there were tables and chairs where they needed to be
--
Rick Corbel did audio/visual. He worked to make sure there were projectors
and sound everywhere needed -- and work he did with the help of a host of
others including Marvin Miller back from the southeast.
Bill Steele put on Texas sized and style Howdy Party!
Bob Cowell worked on camp grounds -- and helped coordinate sinks, showers,
trash cans, and whatever was needed in camp.
Sara Ranzau was the ICE Queen -- making sure there was ice for the kegs,
caving trips, kegs, and whatever else we needed Ice for.
Travis Scott with the help of Joe Mitchell did trips -- caving -- trying to
keep up with what was making, what was needed, what would work.
Joe Ranzau coordinated food -- and other junk -- but the food was sometimes
a big challenge with the guy who negotiated the food contract leaving so he
did not have to make it happen.
Kurt Menking organized Wednesday Trips and made sure they happened, calling
a replacement driver out of bed to take a trip.
Bob West and Josie Hooper were still working on rooms today -- great job
with that.
John Moses, ICS secretary, (El Paso is part of Texas) who helped organize it
all and pitched in where needed.
Joe Mitchell did cultural trips -- buses where people wanted to go in TEXAS
-- though the River Trips were really hard with no water.
Michael & Melissa Cicherski tried to keep us from bankrupting the NSS --
maybe they succeeded -- but a very thankless job from my point of view.
Jon Cradit coordinated facilities -- rentals and all the other stuff needed
to make it happen.
Allan Cobb and Sparky the golf cart coordinated all cultural events --
parties, trips, banquets, and sundry.
Charles Goldsmith came out of hiding to prove he is not a myth, and worked
hard all week making sure we had internet -- then hauling kegs.
All of the people above could not have done it without all the help of each
Texas Caver who pitched in for 30 minutes or 10 days.
I'm sure I have forgotten or missed specifics, but
Texas hosted an International Congress and did a GREAT job!
Thanks to ALL.
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The problem with making any kind of list for an event like this is that
people always get left off. Linda asked me to look over the list before she
sent it out. After she sent it, more names started popping up.
Big thanks got to Bob West and Jocie Hooper for working on rooms. They were
very busy getting people into and out of their rooms.
Lisa Goggins was a huge help in making signs that kept us informed and
driving the right way!
Also, big thanks go to Linda Palit for pulling off not one, but two banquets
during the week. This was done even with all the obstacles that were thrown
in. We had to change the venue for the banquets the week before ICS. This
meant that most of the planning that had been done prior to ICS had to be
thrown out or adapted to the new location.
I'm sure there are many others who spent time, effort, energy, and money to
make ICS happen. Thanks to all of the volunteers who pitched in one way or
another.
Allan
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From: "Linda Palit" <[email protected]>
To: "'Texascavers'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 2:31 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] What it TAKES -- You got it... ICS TEXAS!
Many, many Texas Cavers stepped up to do a part to make ICS happen! A few
more THANKS! are in order -- in addition to all those mentioned before.
I'll
try not to list people already mentioned.
Things were not perfect, but they happened, and mostly smoothly.
Bev Shade came back from Argentina to deal with facilities. She was still
loading tables and tearing down when I was back to Kerrville about noon
today. Bev made sure there were tables and chairs where they needed to be
--
Rick Corbel did audio/visual. He worked to make sure there were
projectors
and sound everywhere needed -- and work he did with the help of a host of
others including Marvin Miller back from the southeast.
Bill Steele put on Texas sized and style Howdy Party!
Bob Cowell worked on camp grounds -- and helped coordinate sinks, showers,
trash cans, and whatever was needed in camp.
Sara Ranzau was the ICE Queen -- making sure there was ice for the kegs,
caving trips, kegs, and whatever else we needed Ice for.
Travis Scott with the help of Joe Mitchell did trips -- caving -- trying
to
keep up with what was making, what was needed, what would work.
Joe Ranzau coordinated food -- and other junk -- but the food was
sometimes
a big challenge with the guy who negotiated the food contract leaving so
he
did not have to make it happen.
Kurt Menking organized Wednesday Trips and made sure they happened,
calling
a replacement driver out of bed to take a trip.
Bob West and Josie Hooper were still working on rooms today -- great job
with that.
John Moses, ICS secretary, (El Paso is part of Texas) who helped organize
it
all and pitched in where needed.
Joe Mitchell did cultural trips -- buses where people wanted to go in
TEXAS
-- though the River Trips were really hard with no water.
Michael & Melissa Cicherski tried to keep us from bankrupting the NSS --
maybe they succeeded -- but a very thankless job from my point of view.
Jon Cradit coordinated facilities -- rentals and all the other stuff
needed
to make it happen.
Allan Cobb and Sparky the golf cart coordinated all cultural events --
parties, trips, banquets, and sundry.
Charles Goldsmith came out of hiding to prove he is not a myth, and worked
hard all week making sure we had internet -- then hauling kegs.
All of the people above could not have done it without all the help of
each
Texas Caver who pitched in for 30 minutes or 10 days.
I'm sure I have forgotten or missed specifics, but
Texas hosted an International Congress and did a GREAT job!
Thanks to ALL.
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Thanks for summarizing the ICS up, Travis and Linda!
My kids and I were thrilled to have been a part of such a monumental and
enjoyable Texas-sized event.
To the others out there who attended, please keep posting your thoughts and
reports here, as I would like to use them in the next ICS intensive TEXAS CAVER.
Due to the sheer volume, though, I also need your photos, as well.
Please send them to [email protected]
Thanks to all who helped out and start sending away!
Mark
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From: Linda Palit [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Mon 7/27/2009 2:31 PM
To: 'Texascavers'
Subject: [Texascavers] What it TAKES -- You got it... ICS TEXAS!
Many, many Texas Cavers stepped up to do a part to make ICS happen! A few
more THANKS! are in order -- in addition to all those mentioned before. I'll
try not to list people already mentioned.
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Like I said, making any kind of list like this always leaves out very
deserving people. This is by no means meant to slight anyone.
Courtney Corbell and Justin Menking were two young workhorses. They always
seemed to be around and were always working. Without them, many things
would simple not have gotten done. Thanks to both of you...
Allan
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Just to help flush out the thank you list a little more:
Bill Stephens did a bang-up job on the speleolympics, with a lot of help from
the multitudes.
Rod Goke- In addition to being sound-engineer for the Terminal Syphons, which
was a full time job for at least 5 days straight, not counting the weeks of
preparation, he also helped Rick Corbell with many of the other A/V needs.
-Vivian Loftin
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> Many, many Texas Cavers stepped up to do a part to make ICS happen! A few
> more THANKS! are in order -- in addition to all those mentioned before. I'll
> try not to list people already mentioned.
>
> Things were not perfect, but they happened, and mostly smoothly.
>
> Bev Shade came back from Argentina to deal with facilities. She was still
> loading tables and tearing down when I was back to Kerrville about noon
> today. Bev made sure there were tables and chairs where they needed to be
> --
> Rick Corbel did audio/visual. He worked to make sure there were projectors
> and sound everywhere needed -- and work he did with the help of a host of
> others including Marvin Miller back from the southeast.
> Bill Steele put on Texas sized and style Howdy Party!
> Bob Cowell worked on camp grounds -- and helped coordinate sinks, showers,
> trash cans, and whatever was needed in camp.
> Sara Ranzau was the ICE Queen -- making sure there was ice for the kegs,
> caving trips, kegs, and whatever else we needed Ice for.
> Travis Scott with the help of Joe Mitchell did trips -- caving -- trying to
> keep up with what was making, what was needed, what would work.
> Joe Ranzau coordinated food -- and other junk -- but the food was sometimes
> a big challenge with the guy who negotiated the food contract leaving so he
> did not have to make it happen.
> Kurt Menking organized Wednesday Trips and made sure they happened, calling
> a replacement driver out of bed to take a trip.
> Bob West and Josie Hooper were still working on rooms today -- great job
> with that.
> John Moses, ICS secretary, (El Paso is part of Texas) who helped organize it
> all and pitched in where needed.
> Joe Mitchell did cultural trips -- buses where people wanted to go in TEXAS
> -- though the River Trips were really hard with no water.
> Michael & Melissa Cicherski tried to keep us from bankrupting the NSS --
> maybe they succeeded -- but a very thankless job from my point of view.
> Jon Cradit coordinated facilities -- rentals and all the other stuff needed
> to make it happen.
> Allan Cobb and Sparky the golf cart coordinated all cultural events --
> parties, trips, banquets, and sundry.
> Charles Goldsmith came out of hiding to prove he is not a myth, and worked
> hard all week making sure we had internet -- then hauling kegs.
>
> All of the people above could not have done it without all the help of each
> Texas Caver who pitched in for 30 minutes or 10 days.
> I'm sure I have forgotten or missed specifics, but
>
> Texas hosted an International Congress and did a GREAT job!
> Thanks to ALL.
>
>
>
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Allan Cobb wrote:
Like I said, making any kind of list like this always
leaves out very deserving people.
Allan, et al, I agree and please understand that my little list of
thanks was only for those that worked under me. My trips used only a
fraction of the folks that worked their butts off for the ICS and I
would have by no means done justice listing anything outside of my
little corner of such a big event. There are just tooooooo many...
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Allan Cobb and Sparky the golf cart coordinated all cultural events --
parties, trips, banquets, and sundry.
Sparky (my golf cart) was a real workhorse. Many of you saw me as an almost
permanent attachment to seat of Sparky. Sparky saved me at least 25 miles
of walking a day. I decorated Sparky with a Texas flag and it was a big
hit. Many groups of foreign cavers were seen taking their picture in front
of Sparky's flag. Yesterday, when I took the flag off of Sparky, I gave the
flag to a very appreciative European caver.
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Ann Scott and I are finally done!
I love Texas Cavers!
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From today's San Antonio Express News about last Wednesday's ICS
trip to Government Canyon:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/Cavers_explore_the_unexplored.html
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All,
I did have the opportunity to break away from the ICS and go caving on
the last day (surprisingly). I caved with some folks from Austria who
had a new type of high-end LED headlamp I have not seen yet (yes, it may
be old news to ya'll). Anyways, it is called the Scurion and the model
they had consisted of two LEDs, one was an ambient ~160 degrees of light
and the other was a super-bright spot. I was pretty impressed with the
ambient option even though it was a little difficult to see the caver
behind the light, it was such a broad light (like a bright candle) that
it lit most of every room we were in (even the Grand Finale in Honey
Creek). Anyways, they are NOT cheap, but since I had not heard or seen
anything on them in the Texas caving world, just wanted to see if anyone
had experience with them.
To me, they offer excellent cave photo opportunities with such a broad
light (although the kelvin temp is different from bulbs and flashes),
plus, you don't have to move your head every time you want to see
something. And nobody else has come out with a headlamp that casts such
a wide beam. Two links about the lamps are below. Anyone own one of
these? Just curious and intrigued, its WAY out of my price range.
http://www.scurion.ch/body_index.html
http://www.scurion.ch/ms/index.php?lamp
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Travis Scott
979.450.0103 Cell
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HI All!
I caved with the same couple in Longhorn and Kickapoo.? Very different caves
with the same headlight.? While it was GREAT in Kickapoo, it was serious
overkill in Longhorn.
Later, I was visiting with Howie, of Howie's Harnesses (ICS vendor), and asked
him about these lights.? He agreed that, while very cool, these lights are
serious overkill for most caves....and they cost on average $1000, which prices
them out of most cavers price range.
julia
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From: Travis Scott <[email protected]>
To: Texascavers <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 4:00 pm
Subject: [Texascavers] Awesome Headlamp?
All,?
?
I did have the opportunity to break away from the ICS and go caving on
the last day (surprisingly). I caved with some folks from Austria who
had a new type of high-end LED headlamp I have not seen yet (yes, it may
be old news to ya'll). Anyways, it is called the Scurion and the model
they had consisted of two LEDs, one was an ambient ~160 degrees of light
and the other was a super-bright spot. I was pretty impressed with the
ambient option even though it was a little difficult to see the caver
behind the light, it was such a broad light (like a bright candle) that
it lit most of every room we were in (even the Grand Finale in Honey
Creek). Anyways, they are NOT cheap, but since I had not heard or seen
anything on them in the Texas caving world, just wanted to see if anyone
had experience with them. ?
To me, they offer excellent cave photo opportunities with such a broad
light (although the kelvin temp is different from bulbs and flashes),
plus, you don't have to move your head every time you want to see
something. And nobody else has come out with a headlamp that casts such
a wide beam. Two links about the lamps are below. Anyone own one of
these? Just curious and intrigued, its WAY out of my price range.?
?
http://www.scurion.ch/body_index.html?
http://www.scurion.ch/ms/index.php?lamp?
?
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979.450.0103 Cell?
[email protected]?
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I saw the Scurion in action on the pre congress trip, two people where using
them an Aussie and a Swiss guy had'em on their brain buckets, it sure is a
way awesome light, the sten paled in comparison when the scurion was on high
mode but at 600 australian bucks, I think I might just carry one of those
gazillion cp spotlights sold at walmart :-P
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Travis Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I did have the opportunity to break away from the ICS and go caving on the
> last day (surprisingly). I caved with some folks from Austria who had a new
> type of high-end LED headlamp I have not seen yet (yes, it may be old news
> to ya'll). Anyways, it is called the Scurion and the model they had
> consisted of two LEDs, one was an ambient ~160 degrees of light and the
> other was a super-bright spot. I was pretty impressed with the ambient
> option even though it was a little difficult to see the caver behind the
> light, it was such a broad light (like a bright candle) that it lit most of
> every room we were in (even the Grand Finale in Honey Creek). Anyways, they
> are NOT cheap, but since I had not heard or seen anything on them in the
> Texas caving world, just wanted to see if anyone had experience with them.
> To me, they offer excellent cave photo opportunities with such a broad
> light (although the kelvin temp is different from bulbs and flashes), plus,
> you don't have to move your head every time you want to see something. And
> nobody else has come out with a headlamp that casts such a wide beam. Two
> links about the lamps are below. Anyone own one of these? Just curious and
> intrigued, its WAY out of my price range.
>
> http://www.scurion.ch/body_index.html
> http://www.scurion.ch/ms/index.php?lamp
>
> --
> Travis Scott
> 979.450.0103 Cell
> [email protected]
>
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