Many of the basic safety guidelines for caving are encapsulated as “Rules of Three”. Here are some of them.
1) Always go caving with at least three other people. If one person is injured, then one can stay with them while two go for help.
2) Always let three people know where you are going and when you will be back. These people need to know what to do if you do not check in by the scheduled out time.
3) Always carry at least three independent sources of light.
This post collects links to the meeting minutes documents for 2026.
Several months ago Shane McCurdy and I started planning a trip to TAG. Our goal was to introduce some younger cavers to the kind of caving that happens in that area. We invited about a dozen people who have vertical skills but have never been to any TAG pits.
As usual, there were people signing on and then leaving the trip. Shane was among them. We wound up with four people attending: Myself, Tristin Whetstine, Jerel Waters and Hayden Perry. I requested SCCi permits for Neversink, South Pittsburgh
Trip report by Jason Jakary
NCRC OCR this past weekend, based out of the Great Saltpeter Cave Preserve in KY.
Friday 8/22: 0600-1800
Saturday 8/23: 0800-1700
Sunday 8/24: 0800-1500
This post collects links to the business meeting minutes for 2025. We did not have a secretary for part of the year, so some of the meetings did not get recorded.
2025-01-21-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
2025-06-17-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
This post collects links to the business meeting minutes for 2024.
2024-01-16-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
2024-02-20-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
2024-03-19-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
2024-04-16-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
2024-05-21-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
2024_07_16 KCAG MEETING MINUTES
August 2024 – No meeting.
2024_09_17 KCAG MEETING MINUTES
2024-10-15-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
2024-11-19-KCAG-MeetingMinutes
December 2024 – No meeting.
KCAG member Corey Ellis recently spent two weeks caving in Tennessee, plus another short trip at the end of January. His trip report is at Google Drive.
Stark Caverns ridgewalking trip report 2024-01-07
Time in 9:15am, time out 12:30pm
Participants – Bill Gee
Mike Kovacs
Candace Kovacs
Dustin Schmidt
Matt Naughton
Several years ago the owners of Stark Caverns acquired a bit over 300 acres of land lying generally west of the cave and across the creek. At that time there was some talk of walking the property looking for caves. We never got around to it because the main survey project was going. When the COVID pandemic came along, that also put
Stark Caverns Trip Report – 29 October 2023
Participants – Bill Gee
Mike Kovacs
Candace Kovacs
Jack Rufener
Amy Hargroves
Time in = 9:30am
Time out = 2:15pm
There were three goals for this trip. The first was to get some better photography of an overlook just off the west end of the Onyx Circle. The second was to check out some tight leads and blowing air at the far end of the Rugged Canyon. Third was to run an endoscope camera into a very tight hole at the Half-Way Room to see if it
Corey Ellis attended the 2023 TAG Fall CaveIn on Lookout Mountain in Georgia. His trip report is posted at the Nashville Grotto web site. There are several photos at the end of his very long and detailed report.
