Take all your stuff to the next convention, improvise a museum on your tent and
charge for the visitors. make a card for each item describing its special
story (this jummar save my life when...)
You may even get to sell something...
Miguel.
> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:22:46 -0500> From: [email protected]> To:
> [email protected]> Subject: [Texascavers] Old caving gear?> > Over
> the years; I have accumulated a lot of old worn out caving gear. Packs,> with
> holes, flashlights that don't work and seem impossible to fix, worn out> knee
> pads, old scratched up mud stained helmets, cable ladders, tripods for>
> digging, miscellaneous sledge hammers and shovels, musty camping gear>
> (tents, tarps, stoves, tarps, sleeping bags, packs of the non caving type)>
> retired caving ropes, ascenders, worn out boots and boots that I acquired>
> for a special trip and have not worn since, etc.> When needed I have replaced
> gear to keep my kit in good condition for every> trip. And I just realized
> that I am a pack rat. Unless the item was> completely worn out I have kept
> it. So I have a closet ( and part of my> storage room) filled with old gear
> that I never use or look at......some of> it smells funky. The smell
> apparently comes from the years I caved in> southern Illinois and Indiana.
> But also from the numerous Texas and Oklahoma> caves that I have frequented.>
> I know Pete Lindsley still uses the caving gear he acquired in the 1800's,>
> when he started caving as a teenager after the civil war. But I am sure>
> there are others like me, who are not quite so old......and I was wondering>
> what you do with your old gear?> > >
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