Horizontal Trip, Weeknight Trip

Moving this to the 23rd to let Earth Day recruits join us.

Our monthly weeknight trip for March will be Hardins Cave in Davidson county. This is an easy, horizontal cave and is suitable for cavers of all ability levels.

You will need a helmet, 3 sources of light, boots with lugged soles and good ankle support, gloves, knee pads, and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty and torn. The grotto can loan you a helmet if you notify the trip leader in advance.

Our monthly weeknight trip for March will be Hardins Cave in Davidson county. This is an easy, horizontal cave and is suitable for cavers of all ability levels.

You will need a helmet, 3 sources of light, boots with lugged soles and good ankle support, gloves, knee pads, and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty and torn. The grotto can loan you a helmet if you notify the trip leader in advance.

John Law and James Wood will lead a trip to this horizontal cave, located in Davidson County after work on Wednesday,January 16. This cave requires more crawling than Hardins Cave but is a great cave located in our own backyard. The meeting time and place is 6 p.m. at the Shoney’s at I-24 and Bell Road (Hickory Hollow area).

Hardin's Cave is a horizontal cave in Davidson County that is suitable for cavers of all experience levels and children. There will be 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 a helmet, 3 sources of light, boots with lugged soles and good ankle support, gloves, knee pads, and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty and torn. The grotto can loan you a helmet if you notify the trip leader in advance.

Instead of the usual Wednesday night, the trip this month will be on Thursday, September 27.

Hardin's Cave is a horizontal cave in Davidson County that is suitable for cavers of all experience levels and children. There will be 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 a helmet, 3 sources of light, boots with lugged soles and good ankle support, gloves, knee pads, and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty and torn. The grotto can loan you a helmet if you notify the trip leader in advance.

Hardin's Cave is a horizontal cave in Davidson County that is suitable for cavers of all experience levels and children. There will be 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 a helmet, 3 sources of light, boots with lugged soles and good ankle support, gloves, knee pads, and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty and torn. The grotto can loan you a helmet if you notify the trip leader in advance.

Update: Date changed one week later to July 25.

Our monthly weeknight trip for July will be Hardins Cave in Davidson county. This is an easy, horizontal cave and is suitable for cavers of all ability levels.

You will need a helmet, 3 sources of light, boots with lugged soles and good ankle support, gloves, knee pads, and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty and torn. The grotto can loan you a helmet if you notify the trip leader in advance.

Alan Hatcher will lead a trip to Hardins Cave, located within Davidson County, on Wednesday night, June 20. Check back for more details or contact Alan.

We will leave at 6 PM Wednesday from the parking lot of Shoney's, at the Bell Road Exit of I-24 in Antioch (southeast of downtown Nashville).
You will need a helmet, 3 light sources, one or two of which are mounted to the helmet and spare batteries for your lights. You need to wear long pants and sturdy hiking boots. Knee pads are good, but not mandatory. You will need a change of clothes as you will get wet and muddy.