The Mid-Appalachian Region (MAR), an association of caving clubs and grottos in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey, has two (2) field meets per year.

The weekend field meets are usually conducted in the fall and spring, generally in October and May. The purpose is largely social. There are numerous cave trips, an evening dinner, and other various activities on Saturday and a PCC (Pennsylvania Cave Conservancy) business meeting on Sunday morning.

Occasionally, MAR and VAR (Virginia Area Region of the National Speleological Society) jointly sponsor one of their field meet weekends together.

-There will be no Spring MAR Fieldmeet this year -

Date:  October 2-4, 2009
Location:  Rupert Cave
McVeytown, PA (Mifflin County)
Hosted By:  York Grotto
Grotto's 50th Anniversary!

  -A chronological history of past MAR Spring and Fall field meets including events from the early MAR years consisting of Summer Cave Rallys, Speleo-go-gos, Annual Regional Field Trips, and Regional Mini-Conventions.

Please help preserve MAR's history by submitting any information and/or corrections of former MAR events to the MAR Webmaster .

* This list is in memory of Dale Ibberson, that passed away in early March 2009. Since, the creation of this list back in 2000, it was the webmaster's intention to completely document the history of the MAR and its former officers and events, including the Spring and Fall field meets, for its 50th Anniversary in 2003. However the lists were far from being complete well into early 2009. As a result of Dale's death, the majority of information needed to fill in the many "missing holes" were found by researching Dale's tremendous wealth of information that he had collected and archived over the years. Dale was a true historian and he will be missed by all!