Events
Wednesday night, September 20
Grotto vertical practice, 6 p.m.
Ashland City (Sydney) Bluffs, Ashland City, TN
This is a chance to try out rappelling before you go into a cave. There are rappels ranging from 30 feet to 200 feet. We will be out after dark, so bring a helmet with a headlamp. For directions or more information, call or e-mail John Hickman, 615-585-5277 or johnhickman [at] comcast [dot] net
The next Executive meeting will be on September 21 at Gerald and Avis house.
en 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.
en 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.
Becky Dettorre will lead a trip to Buggy Top Cave on September 24. From Becky:
"We'll meet to leave at Bell Rd Shoneys off of I-24 at 8 am. Please also put that if anyone needs a light or helmet, to contact me before hand and I'll borrow from folks in the grotto. Every caver must have a helmet and light on this trip."
Buggy Top is a very easy cave that from what I understand you just walk through.
TCS Fall Business Meeting 2006:
September 30, 2006, 9:00 A.M
Johnson Hall, 1105 N. Peachtree Ave., Room 103,
Tennessee Technological University (TN Tech)
1000 N. Dixie Ave., Cookeville, TN
For NSS members and guests only -
Are You Ready? THINK T.A.G!! Come one, come all to the 29th annual TAG Fall Cave-in!
For NSS members and guests only -
Are You Ready? THINK T.A.G!! Come one, come all to the 29th annual TAG Fall Cave-in!
For NSS members and guests only -
Are You Ready? THINK T.A.G!! Come one, come all to the 29th annual TAG Fall Cave-in!
There will be a survey trip to Bear Hole on Saturday the 7th of October. This cave was described on last month's topics, and at the meeting, so if anyone needs any information, let me know. Basically it is a 2 hour drive plus a 1.5 hour hike to the cave, which is horizontal and dry. We normally map 600-900 feet in a day. This trip we will push the outer middle section of the cave.
Ken Oeser
For NSS members and guests only -
Are You Ready? THINK T.A.G!! Come one, come all to the 29th annual TAG Fall Cave-in!
Joe Douglas will lead a weeknight trip to Sinking Ridge Cave in
Robertson County on Wed. evening, October 11, 2006. This is a horizontal
stream cave with some wading.
Meet at the Big K Mart parking lot at the Long Hollow Pike/Goodlettsville Exit of Interstate 65 between 6 and 6:15PM. For anyone wanting to meet further north, a second meeting spot near Springfield can be arranged.
For more
The Grotto Meeting will be DELAYED one week due to TAG. It will now be on Thursday night, October 12 at 7:00pm at the Adventure Science Center. Show up at 6:30 for fellowship.
Burgers and Beer after the meeting at Brown's Diner as usual.
No word on the program.
Don Harter sez:
The Blue Springs dig trip is being moved to Sunday October 15 th. If you are interested in attending let me know where you are coming from. Some of us will camp at Blue Springs Saturday night. So we wouldn't have to drive very far. If there are persons coming from Nashville then a time of 9:30 AM at the cave is when we will probably meet. So you would have to leave around 7:00AM.
