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| Grotto Xmas Party |
| Grotto trip to Atkinson's Mine Cave Bruce & Mary Foyer, Randy Morris with his son Bryce and daughter Laney Kay. Also Ron Dipple with sons Wayne and Alan spent about two hours exploring. |
| 42nd Annual Hodag Hunt; "Featuring the caves of Ledge View Nature Center- Chilton, WI and Cherney Maribel Caves County Park- Maribel, WI." (sponsored by Wisconsin Speleological Society) |
| Grotto Picnic |
| Grotto trip to Werden's Cave, near Maquoketa, IA Trip included Bruce and Mary Foyer, Ron Dipple and son Andrew. |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah, IA |
| Grotto Trip to Warden's Cave & Maquoketa Caves State Park; near Maquoketa, IA |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah, IA |
| 41st Annual Hodag Hunt; Spring Valley (near Elmwood), WI. (sponsored by Wisconsin Speleological Society) |
| Grotto Picnic |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah, IA The Iowa grotto is also planning a mock rescue during the weekend. |
| Grotto Trip to Mammoth Cave; Hamilton Valley (Near the Hoffmaster House), KY Bruce, Mary & Al have some great slides of the cave and they took the 4-1/2 hour Grand Ave Tour. They also went to nearby Adwell and Dogwood Caves & visited the American Caving Museum. Al also went on a 15 hour survey into Hidden River and on a photo trip up Mammoth's Gothic Ave For a caving safety video. |
| Grotto Trip to Warden's Cave & Maquoketa Caves State Park; near Maquoketa, IA Paul Turner and his son Paul Jr. visited the Caves with the Foyers. Maquoketa has great caves for kids to visit for their first cave experience. The Elliots had taken some 4H Students on a previous trip there and had a great time. |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah, IA |
| Bob & Ashley Boro met the SUCG on a Trip to Illinois Caverns; Waterloo, IL |
| Rogers Cave; near House on the Rock, WI |
| Elections; Burpee Museum, Rockford, IL |
| 40th Annual Hodag Hunt; Wyalusing State Park, Bagley, WI (sponsored by the WSS - Wisconsin Speleological Society) |
| Corn Feed; Minnesota |
| Pop's Cave; near Richland Center, Wisconsin |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah, IA |
| Cave Capers; Crawford Co. 4-H Fairgrounds, Marengo, IN |
| Orientation to Cave Rescue; Barneveld High School, Barneveld, Wisconsin |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah, IA |
| Elections were held and it seems like we'll be
keeping the same staff for another year! Proposed a trip to Coldwater Cave in January 2004. |
| 39th Annual Hodag Hunt; Gays Mills, WI. (sponsored by Wisconsin Speleological Society) |
| The Grotto Picnic at the Foyer's Sounds like another great Ribfest! |
| Grotto trip to Atkinson's Mine Cave, WI |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah, IA |
| The Foyer's visited New Zealand on their vacation in March. Bruce had a beautiful slideshow at the April grotto meeting. |
| Al Wellhausen went back a third time to Belize to further explore the upper level of Stone Sepulchre Cave. (The Miss Rain Forest Beauty Pageant contestants can visit and/or drop an email to us any time.) He also visited the Mayan ruins in Guatamala and gave a great slide show presentation at the Aug. meeting. New photos coming to our web site soon. |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah,IA |
| Bruce Foyer is organizing trips to investigate cave locations in SW Wisconsin throughout the year. |
| A novice trip went to caves in the Maquoketa area, IA |
| Club members attended the WSS Hodag Hunt/MSS Cornfeed (Forestville State Park,near Spring Vally, MN) and visited Minnesota's Mystery Cave. Bruce Foyer shared the prize (a caving/climbing helmet) for finding the Hodag with WSS member Tim Geyer. |
| Indiana - Cave Capers; Corydon, IN. (sponsored by Central Indiana Grotto) |
| Grotto trip to Coldwater Cave, near Decorah, IA |
| The Morris's visited Jewel Cave during their trip to South Dakota. |
| Al Wellhausen has been doing digital photography for the CRF near Mammoth Cave, KY (see photos) |
| Joe Jonakin has been taken part in clean-up trips into caves in the Guadelupe area of New Mexico |
| Werden's Cave - Family/Novice trip - IA |
| 37th Annual Hodag Hunt - Eagle Cave (near Blue River & Richland Center), WI Severe Thunderstorms Friday night, many close lightening strikes near campsite Took Tour of Mine Museum (in Boscobel?) |
| RRSS picnic @ the Foyer's house (Ribfest!) |
| Coldwater Cave, IA |
| Werley's Cave, WI |
| Alan Wellhausen and Bill English flew to see many Lava Tubes in Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii |
| The Foyer's and Boro's enjoyed a trip to Pop's Cave, Wisconsin |
| 36th Annual Hodag Hunt; Upper MI. (sponsored by the WSS) |
| National NSS Convention, West Virginia |
| Al Wellhausen & John Moses went back a second time to Belize
and saw Barton Creek & Stone Sepulchre Caves as part of the
Belize Underground Research Project Expedition
(see photos). (Ask Al about the Miss Rain Forest Beauty Pageant) |
| 35th Annual Hodag Hunt; Gays Mills, WI. (sponsored by the WSS) |
| Coldwater Cave - Iowa |
| MVOR/NCR Spring Event; at the Cave Farm - Spring Valley, Minn. |
| NCRC Cave Rescue Training - Bob and Brad Boro attended the two day training with local fire & police departments and EMTs. They led the mock rescue search team held the 2nd day at Illinois Caverns! |
| Exploration and Survey of Settlers Cave |
| Al Wellhausen & John Moses saw Tom's Pit and Stone Sepulchre Caves as part of the Belize Underground Research Project Expedition. |
| Coldwater Cave - Iowa |
| RRSS Trip to Illinois Caverns; Waterloo, IL |
| RRSS Canoe Trip; On Kickapoo River thru Wildcat Mountain State Park, WI |
| 34th Annual Hodag Hunt; Door County, WI. (sponsored by the WSS) |
| Mammoth Cave Restoration Field Camp for the Echo River Restoration Project |
| Annual NSS National Convention; Sewanee, Tenn. |
| Indiana Cave Capers; Corydon, IN. (sponsored by Central Indiana Grotto) |
| RRSS trip to Werden's and Maquoketa Caves; Maquoketa, IA. |
| Kentucky Speleofest; Temple Hill, KY. (sponsored by Louisville Grotto) |
| MVOR/NCR Spring Event; at the Cave Farm - Spring Valley, Minn. A severe thunderstorm with extremly strong winds Saturday night took out a few tents. Some wound up sleeping in the Kawanza Hut by one of the Cave's entrances that night. |
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