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The August 2014  SFBC meeting will be held at the Menlo Park USGS Conference Room Bldg 3 Tuesday 26 August at 7:30PM.  Matthew Garrett will be giving a talk on his experiences in China where he spent three years living, working, caving and traveling.

The March SFBC March meeting will be held at the USGS facility Tuesday 25 March at 7:30PM.  Bruce White will show a video on the caves of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia (TAG) which is the site of this years NSS convention.

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/vertical/index.htm).

 

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.