Events

Note this meeting is being held on the FIRST TUESDAY because of the dates of the SERA Cave Carnival.

The June Executive Committee meeting will be held on TUESDAY, June 3 at John Hickman's home. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Food and drink will be available. Feel free to BYOB and BYOF.

MEG and the ACC are proud to host the first ever joint SERA/ VAR in the border area of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. We have a large campsite across the street from Bristol International Raceway: the Bristol Campground on Highway 394, about 15 minutes drive from Interstate 81. We will offer directions to about 50 area caves plus guided trips to some of the largest and most beautiful caves in the area, including Perkins Cave, the jewel in the ACC crown. Besides some world-class caving, the site has quick access to thousands of miles of great hiking trails, fishing and boating opportunities at several TVA lakes, whitewater rapids on the Nolichucky and calmer water on the North and South Fork Holston, the Clinch and Powell Rivers. While you're here, check out the giant Miocene fossil dig at Gray, Tennessee where ETSU and General Shale have just opened a must-see museum and laboratory. Visit Natural Tunnel State Park in the middle of Rye Cove, one of the most significant karst areas in the state of Virginia and take a tour through the 1000-foot giant tunnel. We're going to have great music, great food, and activities that will make this a fun-filled weekend for all cavers.

MEG and the ACC are proud to host the first ever joint SERA/ VAR in the border area of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. We have a large campsite across the street from Bristol International Raceway: the Bristol Campground on Highway 394, about 15 minutes drive from Interstate 81. We will offer directions to about 50 area caves plus guided trips to some of the largest and most beautiful caves in the area, including Perkins Cave, the jewel in the ACC crown. Besides some world-class caving, the site has quick access to thousands of miles of great hiking trails, fishing and boating opportunities at several TVA lakes, whitewater rapids on the Nolichucky and calmer water on the North and South Fork Holston, the Clinch and Powell Rivers. While you're here, check out the giant Miocene fossil dig at Gray, Tennessee where ETSU and General Shale have just opened a must-see museum and laboratory. Visit Natural Tunnel State Park in the middle of Rye Cove, one of the most significant karst areas in the state of Virginia and take a tour through the 1000-foot giant tunnel. We're going to have great music, great food, and activities that will make this a fun-filled weekend for all cavers.

MEG and the ACC are proud to host the first ever joint SERA/ VAR in the border area of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. We have a large campsite across the street from Bristol International Raceway: the Bristol Campground on Highway 394, about 15 minutes drive from Interstate 81. We will offer directions to about 50 area caves plus guided trips to some of the largest and most beautiful caves in the area, including Perkins Cave, the jewel in the ACC crown. Besides some world-class caving, the site has quick access to thousands of miles of great hiking trails, fishing and boating opportunities at several TVA lakes, whitewater rapids on the Nolichucky and calmer water on the North and South Fork Holston, the Clinch and Powell Rivers. While you're here, check out the giant Miocene fossil dig at Gray, Tennessee where ETSU and General Shale have just opened a must-see museum and laboratory. Visit Natural Tunnel State Park in the middle of Rye Cove, one of the most significant karst areas in the state of Virginia and take a tour through the 1000-foot giant tunnel. We're going to have great music, great food, and activities that will make this a fun-filled weekend for all cavers.

MEG and the ACC are proud to host the first ever joint SERA/ VAR in the border area of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. We have a large campsite across the street from Bristol International Raceway: the Bristol Campground on Highway 394, about 15 minutes drive from Interstate 81. We will offer directions to about 50 area caves plus guided trips to some of the largest and most beautiful caves in the area, including Perkins Cave, the jewel in the ACC crown. Besides some world-class caving, the site has quick access to thousands of miles of great hiking trails, fishing and boating opportunities at several TVA lakes, whitewater rapids on the Nolichucky and calmer water on the North and South Fork Holston, the Clinch and Powell Rivers. While you're here, check out the giant Miocene fossil dig at Gray, Tennessee where ETSU and General Shale have just opened a must-see museum and laboratory. Visit Natural Tunnel State Park in the middle of Rye Cove, one of the most significant karst areas in the state of Virginia and take a tour through the 1000-foot giant tunnel. We're going to have great music, great food, and activities that will make this a fun-filled weekend for all cavers.

John Law and I are leading a trip to Swirl Canyon the night of Wednesday June 18th. This is a great horizontal cave in Davidson County. You can expect crawling, climbing, mucking, sloshing, and mudding. You MUST have 3 sources of light and a helmet. At least one source of light must be attached to your helmet. Knee pads, gloves, and a change of clothes for after the trip are strongly recommended. We will be wading in ankle deep water so please wear appropriate foot-ware with good ankle support.

The June grotto meeting will be held on Thursday, June 19 at the Adventure Science Center starting at 7pm.

Hi all,

Talking with Robert over the weekend, I have agreed to lead a NG trip to Conley Hole on Saturday June 21, 2008.

This is a very nice 163’ pit. There should be a beam of light in the pit this time of year. There is a hike across a field and up the mountain too, so you’ll get to sweat.

We are meeting at the Bell Road Shoney’s on 1-24 in Nashville at 8 AM (leave by 8:15). The second meeting place, in case some of the Upper Cumberland Cavers want to tag along, will be the little square/park in “downtown” Viola, Tennessee (off hwy. 55) at 9:30 AM to leave.

Update: Date changed to Sunday June 29

Aimee Roosenberg and Joey Stuckey will be leading a clean-up trip to Indian Grave Point Cave, Dekalb County, TN. This is a horizontal cave with some minor climbing, some trash to pick up and graffiti removal. Meeting at 8:00 a.m. at the McDonalds at the Hwy 109 exit on I-40 (east of Nashville).

We have a reservation for July 1 for Shelter # 10 at Edwin Warner Park. The shelter is located off Vaughns Road and is South of Old Hickory Blvd. between Hwy 100 and Hillsboro Road.

There is no acohol allowed on Park property. If someone is interested in grilling out, they will want to bring the appropriate stuff. I don't believe we can build a fire on the ground. My suggestion is to bring something already to eat. We may want to start a list of what people are planning to bring so we don't end up with 20 bags of potato chips and nothing else, or worse, only cookies to eat;)