Caving Rules of Three
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.
2026 Business Meeting Minutes
This post collects links to the meeting minutes documents for 2026.
Meeting Minutes for KCAG – Jan 20, 2026
Meeting Minutes for KCAG – Feb 17, 2026
2025 September – TAG Trip
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
22-24 August 2025 – Orientation to Cave Rescue
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
- Drive out to Mt Vernon, KY area and set up camp at GSP
Saturday 8/23: 0800-1700
- Classroom lectures
- Litter packing and movement practice above ground
Sunday 8/24: 0800-1500
- In-cave mock rescue; the cave used was Climax Cave, not GSP
- Three
2025 Business Meeting Minutes
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
2024 Business Meeting Minutes
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.
2024 Early January several caves
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.
2024 January 7 – Stark Caverns ridgewalking
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
2023 October 29 – Stark Caverns lead push
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