Bob caved with Squire Lewis and was a party to Squire's book. We caved in the Valles area. Hung out at a cantina on the plaza back in the good old days.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Geary Schindel < gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org> wrote: > FYI, > > Geary > > > Folks, > > Wm Shrewsbury (the NSS President) told Yvonne Droms that Bob Thrun passed > away a couple weeks ago. We don't know the date or the exact details, but > I understand Bob had been feeling ill (flu) the day before he passed away, > and apparently passed away in his sleep. > > For those who didn't know Bob, he was a longtime caver who was very > involved with vertical techniques and cave surveying. He joined the NSS > and PSC in 1966. > > Bob wrote one of the early books on vertical caving techniques, titled > Prusiking, in 1971. He had a very extensive collection of historic > vertical caving equipment. > > Bob had a very extensive library of caving books and newsletters and was > also the go-to source for material from it. > > We don't know what happened to his library or his extensive vertical > equipment collection. > > Bob was very involved with cave surveying. He wrote the CMAP computer > program, one of the first computer programs to process cave survey > data using simultaneous loop closure to handle survey errors. He also > helped define and publicize the use of standard cave map symbols. > > I'm sorry about the rather sketchy information, but it's all I > currently know. > > Bob Hoke > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > varlis...@vt.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to varlist-g+unsubscr...@vt.edu. > > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > > -- Charlie Loving
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