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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.
John Hickman:
"I will be hosting a vertical climbing session on Wednesday night (Oct. 18 at 6 p.m. at my house. This session will be for those who are comfortable with their climbing system.
I will have my 700 foot rope rigged to allow a climb of over 600 feet."
The October 2006 Executive Meeting will be at Steve Cooper's house.
Joe Douglas and Kristen Bobo will lead a vertical trip to pits in Standing Stone State Forest, including Rocky Mount Pit #1 and others, on Sunday October 29, 2006. We will leave from the I-40/Lebanon Exit (#238) Shoneys Restaurant at 8:30 AM. There will be a second meeting place further east if needed. Generally, some previous vertical experience is required, as is your own gear. For more informat
The November grotto meeting will be held on Thursday, November 2 at the Adventure Science Center starting at 7pm.
Our special speaker for this meeting will be Dr. Jan Simek from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Simek will be speaking on the recent pictograms found in Dunbar Cave by Joe Douglas and other members of the Nashville Grotto.
Afterwards will be the usual beer and burgers at Browns Diner.
Blue Springs Cave Workday III, Nov. 5th
By: Paul Moser (McMinnville, Tennessee)
paulmoser at hotmail.com
The next installment of the Blue Springs Cave New Entrance Upgrade
will be Sunday, November 5th at 10am. Please help us give back to a
beautiful cave and to a wonderful land-owner and caver Mr. Lonnie Carr
and family. The objective for this work day will be to further extend
the path from the new entrance. Gravel will need to be transported
into the cave and a base of larger rock laid down in a section of the
trail that tends to stay wet more often than not. As I have mentioned
before, this is in an effort to reduce the amount of mud being carried
deeper into the cave by those that choose to use the new entrance as
their starting point. Until this project is completed I would like to
ask all to use the old entrance as their starting point in order to
bypass the mud and reduce the amount of mud being carried into the
cave. We had a wonderful turnout last time and I would like to
continue the trend. Bring your caving gear as there may be a cave trip
after the work is done. Maybe we can talk a few guys into showing us
some of the new discoveries they've made. Thankyou.
On Wednesday night, November 8, the grotto will hold it's monthly weeknight caving trip to Hardins Cave in Davidson County, TN.
This is a horizontal cave and is suitable for cavers of all experience levels and children. There is some crawling involved, as well as climbing over piles of breakdown. The cave has a stream, so you should expect to at least get your feet wet.
You will need to bring:
