This post collects all of the meeting minutes for 2023.
15 October 2022 Bridge Day
2022 Bridge Day Trip Report by Bill Gee
After two years (2020 and 2021) of being canceled, the annual Bridge Day (Wikipedia link) event was restarted for 2022. The event this year was on 15 October. It is always held on the third Saturday in October.
I attended Bridge Day in 2011 as a participant. In 2019 I was on the rappel safety team, and for 2022 I was again on the rappel safety team. More information about the rappel is at Bridge Day rappel.
It is a long drive from Kansas City to Fayetteville,
2022 TAG Fall Cave In
Corey Ellis attended 2022 TAG Fall Cave In a week ago. His trip report and photos are posted on the Nashville Grotto web site.
28 September 2022 – Stark Caverns Photo
28 September 2022 – Stark Caverns Photo Project
Some years ago when we started the survey project at Stark Caverns, there was some discussion of also producing a book of photos to be sold in the gift shop. Now that the survey project is winding down, it is time to start work on the photos that might be included in a coffee table book.
Originally there were four people signed up for this trip. At the very last minute two of them had to drop out. One was sick with the flu and the other tested
24 September 2022 – Fall MVOR
Corey Ellis attended the Fall 2022 MVOR and wrote a very nice trip report about it. The report is posted on the web site of the Nashville Grotto. Go here to read his report.
2022 NSS Convention
2022 NSS Convention trip report by Bill Gee
The 2022 NSS Convention was held at the Central States Fairground in Rapid City, South Dakota June 13 through 17. I have attended several conventions in the past. The last two years (2020 and 2021) were held on-line only due to the Covid pandemic.
I left for the convention several days early so I could spend some time visiting friends in central Nebraska where I grew up. From there I drove across the Sandhills area of Nebraska. There are miles and miles
26 Feb 2022 Stark Caverns Survey
Stark Caverns survey project trip report
Date – 26 Feb 2022
Participants – Bill Gee, Becky Nelson, Scott Wenzel and Seth Colston (KCAG)
Kohl Mitchell, John Roth and Shannon Zaloz (Chouteau)
Laurel Dunn (PEG)
We went into the cave about 0930. Since four of the crew had never been in the cave, we did a quick walk-around of the tourist trail. We split into two teams. One team was Seth, Laurel, Scott and Becky. The other was Bill, John, Shannon and Kohl. We worked our way out the Rugged Canyon
2022 Business Meeting Minutes
This post collects links to all of the meeting minutes for 2022.
2022-01-18KCAGBusinessMeetingMinutes
2022-02-15KCAGBusinessMeetingMinutes
2022-03-15KCAGBusinessMeetingMinutes
2022-04-19KCAGBusinessMeetingMinutes
2022-05-19KCAGBusinessMeetingMinutes
2022-07-05KCAGBusinessMeetingMinutes
2022-09-20KCAGBusinessMeetingMinutes
2010-2016 Meeting Minutes
This post collects links to ZIP files containing business meeting minutes from 2010 through 2016. Each year is a single ZIP file containing PDF files of the approved minutes.
To use these files, download the ZIP and the expand to a temporary directory. Each ZIP will create a directory for the year which will contain the files.
The files for 2016 may look a bit odd with blank pages at the end. I had to strip a bunch of cave map images from those files in order to get them down to
2021 August TAG Trip
TAG Trip Report – August 4 through 8, 2021
Go to the bottom of this post to see photos from the trip.
Several months ago I heard some interest from a few KCAG members about getting more experience with vertical gear in some deeper pits. I searched around a bit and decided to set up a trip to some of the classic SCCi (Southeast Cave Conservancy Inc.) pits in the TAG area. The chosen pits were Neversink, Valhalla and South Pittsburgh Pit.
I scheduled the trip for early August 2021. The plan was