Spring 2012 VAR

Seasons Greetings from the Members of Tri-State Grotto.

As visions of sugar plums and going underground dance thru your head 
let us invite you to Spring VAR instead.

Once again Tri-State Grotto is hosting Spring VAR.  The event will be 
held at the Poor Farm Festival Grounds in Williamsburg, WV.  The dates 
for this event will be 27th, 28th, & 29th of April.  We have lots of 
cave trips planed, including some on site plus lots of non-caving 
activities such as biking on the Greenbrier River Trail, Canoe or 
Kayak on the Greenbrier, hiking, geocatching, antiquing, and more.

To start off a great weekend, Tri-State's Chair - John DiCarlo - will 
host a wine and bluegrass get-together Friday night, 7pm at the stage. 
  To participate bring a bottle of wine costing under $10.00.  The 
Theme of the wine tasting will be Berry.  Your wine should have a 
Berry on the label or be a type of berry wine.

Saturday morning Vice Chair Bob Bennett has a very large lineup of 
"led trips".  Those who pre-register will have an opportunity to sign 
up early.  Some of the trips we're working on include: Culverson 
Creek, Windy Mouth, McClungs, Bone, Lost World, Poor Farm 
(Pocahontas), Poor Farm (Greenbriar), Organ (Lipps), Maxwelton (Photo 
trip), Cabble & Briar Pits, and others.  John Pearson has an on-site 
conservation project building some steps at Poor Farm.  Saturday 
night's dinner will feature Pit Barbequed pork and chicken with beans, 
potato salad, coleslaw, and drinks and we haven't forgotten you 
vegetarians.  The owners of Poor Farm will cater the meal. We're 
working on a Saturday night speaker. John Fox will DJ with the 
traditional cavers libations available on Saturday night. The always 
popular VAR business meting will be held Sunday morning for you speleo 
politicians.   We'll try to convince Front Royal Grotto to do their 
wonderful Sunday Breakfast.

A pre registration Form is included with this newsletter. We strongly 
advise you to use this.  By pre registering you also insure we have a 
meal for you and it makes planning a whole lot easier.

We look forward to seeing you in the spring.  More information will be 
in the Spring Region Record.   For now -- Have a Wonderful Holiday from 
all of us at Tri-state.