SFBC Member Bruce White, who has been caving for
21 years in 14 US states and 5 countries will describe his 2009 through
trip in Great Expectations Cave in Wyoming, one of the more treacherous
caves in the US with vertical drops and frigid whitewater.
All are welcome to the USGS at 7:30PM for a presentation by Alan Chern on his recent exploration of the amazingly beautiful Onyx Cave in Arizona.
The November meeting will be held at 7:30PM at the USGS Conference room.
The program will be a potpourri of SFBC Member’s trips throughout
this year including a video on the recent Arizona Onyx Cave
Trip. Attendees are encouraged to bring their pictures in digital format.
Longtime caver Ron Bourret will give a presentation on his recent caving adventures in Austria at the 22 October SFBC meeting at the USGS in Menlo Park.
An awesome picture plan of what we planned in the redwoods for vertical practice. Many thanks to Ron Bourret for hosting. For more pictures, check out his link (http://www.rpbourret.com/
The September SFBC Grotto meeting will be held Tuesday 24th September at 7:30PM in the USGS conference room 3 in Menlo Park.
A Video by Brent McGreggor on his expeditions to the Mt.Hood Sandy Glacier Caves will be shown
This meeting is open to the public.
The August SFBC Caving meeting will be held Tuesday 27th August at 7:30PM at the USGS conference room 3 in Menlo Park.
Longtime caver Janet Sowers will talk about her involvement with the Santa Clara Valley creek & watershed mapping project since 1993. The project has added the present day drainage network with its creeks, engineered channels, and underground storm drains to Google Earth as well as the historic creeks as they were in the 1800s.
The 7:30PM July members will be presided over by vice chair and vertical skills instructor Fofo Gonzalez.
The program will be a on the Halite Caves of the Atacama Desert and Trekking in Patagonia Chile by member Mark Conover.
The SFBC has $150 in scholarship available to members who attend an upcoming training seminar this year and are willing to give back to the grotto in the form of a talk, article, training, or other method of your choice.
The next National Cave Rescue Commission (NCRC) seminar will be on Cave Rescue Operations and Management 6-13 July in Schoharie New York. Registration costs are $575. More information on this event can be obtained on the NCRC web site:
http://www.caves.org/commission/ncrc/national/2013Seminar/seminar2013.htm
If you are interested in applying for a SFBC scholarship for this event, send an email to Nick at treasurer.sfbc@gmail.com with your proposal before 1 July 2013 for transferring some of your skills back to the grotto.
Mark
“They (SFBC member Nick Schmalenberger) kindly attended one of our meetings, and we, in turn, attended their’s. We were delighted to meet members of the National Speleological Society’s San Francisco Bay Chapter (SFBC) at one of our quarterly coffees in Fremont a while back. Much to our surprise, they saw our New Irvington Tunnel (NIT) blog and became interested in the project. They invited us to speak at one of their future meetings about our man-made ‘cave’. Last week Project Manager David Tsztoo and Geologist Rebecca Fusee made a presentation at the SFBC general meeting and ‘rocked out’ as it were by talking about the NIT Project and the complex geology it passes through.”
