Thanks, Preston, for this. He’d love it, especially if it’s in an “overlooked” and/or great muddy section.
Gary ODell tracked down that history just before WIlliam died and confirmed it with William, because he is doing Rockcastle county history right now. He and WIlliam’s brother Philip together have pieced together the Kentucky connection: 1) their dad was a geologist (prof. at Texas A&M University) and did some work in the area in summers, took the boys with him; and 2) Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was where william was stationed in the army before he was sent to germany — he started a cave club and when he was released he returned to the area => yielding his early bulletin. Gary’s book has a much cooler version . . . William approved. thanks all katie arens On Apr 21, 2019, at 12:07 PM, PRESTON FORSYTHE <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: A fine fitting tribute from Bill, the Man of Steel, to Bill the leading expert of the local digs and caves around Austin. Bill Russell was one of the friendliest cavers in the world. He was also a good writer as I remember reading one of his cave geology papers and was knocked over. In two weeks we are documenting two new caves in western KY we have been saving for a couple of months. One has virgen cave 50 ft. from the entrance. We will name a passage for Bill Russell in his memory. Not many know it but in Bill Russell's early caving career he caved in eastern KY in the 24 mile plus Sloan Valley Cave System. This was in the 1960's. I cannot remember what pulled Bill to KY-Dr. Barr at UK? James Redell, being at UK to study under Dr. Barr? The Army? Lou Simpson? Or, Sloan's was simply one of the longest caves in the country at that time. A Kirkwood story-one afternoon Bill Russell came over to the 1307 1/2 garage where I was working. A lot of UTG caving rope was stored in the garage. Bill pointed out that some of the rope was too close to a couple of old truck batteries. I destroyed the ropes touching the batteries. Someone said I should have saved them for vehicle towing, but I thought the risk of getting them mixed up with caving rope was too much. Preston Forsythe Browder, KY On Saturday, April 20, 2019, 9:35:43 PM CDT, Logan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Awesome! Thanks Bill and the PESH team. Logan On 4/20/2019 6:36 PM, Diana Tomchick wrote: News from Mexico/PESH: Bill Steele is happy to announce that the expedition has named a horrible passage in a cave named Hell's Hammer Hole, which is certain to be connected to Sistema Huautla soon. "Bill Russell's Delight" is a 150-meter long, tight struggle with knife-like shredding blades of chert. Diana ************************************************** Diana R. Tomchick Professor Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Rm. ND10.214A Dallas, TX 75390-8816 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (214) 645-6383 (phone) (214) 645-6353 (fax) ________________________________ UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today. _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com<http://texascavers.com/> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com<http://texascavers.com/> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers ************************ Katherine Arens Phones: Office(512) 232-6363 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Dept. Phone: (512) 471-4123 Dept. of Germanic Studies FAX (512) 471-4025 2505 University Ave, C3300 Bldg.Location: Burdine 336 University of Texas at Austin Office: Burdine 320 Austin, TX 78712-1802 -. .- _..-'( )`-.._ ./'. '||\\. (\_/) .//||` .`\. ./'.|'.'||||\\|.. )O O( ..|//||||`.`|.`\. ./'..|'.|| |||||\`````` '`" '` ''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\. ./'.||'.|||| ||||||||||||. . |||||||||||| ||||.`||.`\. /'|||'.|||||| ||||||||||||{ }|||||||||||| ||||||.`|||`\ '.|||'.||||||| ||||||||||||{ }|||||||||||| |||||||.`|||.` '.||| ||||||||| |/' ``\||`` ''||/'' `\| ||||||||| |||.` |/' \./' `\./ \!|\ /|!/ \./' `\./ `\| V V V }' `\ /' `{ V V V ` ` ` V ' ' '
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