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The September Grotto Meeting will be Thursday night, September 7 at 7:00pm at the Adventure Science Center. Show up at 6:30 for coffee and fellowship.
Burgers and Beer after the meeting at Brown's Diner as usual.
The program for the September meeting will be slides, photos, and reports from those that attended the NSS Convention in Washington State recently. There may be time for open photo
Ken Oeser and Robert Van Fleet will be leading survey trips to Bear Hole: a long, horizontal, mazy cave in Grundy county on Saturday, September 9, and the weekend of September 23-24, which will most likely be a camping trip. The cave is mainly canyon passages, is dry, and only horizontal gear is needed. There is about a mile hike to the cave from the parking area, with an elevation loss of almost 600 feet, so the hike is tougher than the cave. We have special permission to this remote region of South Cumberland State Park, so come while you can. Although we have mapped over 4800 feet in the cave so far, we have only gone about 500 feet from the entrance. No survey experience is required, just a willingness to hold the tape, write numbers, or check loops. We will be at the September grotto meeting for final details, but we will likely leave Nashville around 6:30am on Saturday the 9th, and carpooling is recommended.
Bill Overton is organizing a Workday at Hardins Junkyard Cave for September 9, 2006. Meet at the cave at 10:30 AM.
Work to be done includes repairing the sign and spreading gravel in the parking area. Bring your own refreshments and your caving gear since you might as well go inside while you're there.
Come help keep our mascot cave keep looking as pretty as Mr. Overton!
The next installment of the Blue Spring Cave New Entrance Upgrade
will be Sunday, September 10th at 10am. Please help us give back to a
beautiful cave and to a wonderful land-owner and caver Mr. Lonnie
Carr. The objective for this work day will be to put down a gravel
path through the wet muddy sections leading from the new entrance in
an effort to reduce the amount of mud being carried deeper into the
Trip to Junkyard Cave led by Steve Cooper. Meet at Waffle House off I40 at White Bridge Road at 6:30 or at the cave at 7.
This trip is suitable for all experience levels.
Leave message here or contact Hatch with questions.
Hatch : 615-439-5731 Cell
Saturday September 16, Robert Van Fleet to lead trip to Cooper Creek and Darnells caves, both near Clarksville and within walking distance of each other. Meet at I-24 exit 35 (Joelton) McDonalds at 8:30 (to leave; arrive earlier if planning to eat). From Joelton it's about another hour to the caves.
Cooper Creek is a pleasant dry cave with some evidence of saltpeter mining, historic graffiti, and, unfortunately, some vandalism. There is some crawling.
