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Northwest Caving Association

Welcome to the Northwest!

The Northwest Caving Association is an organization made up of representatives from NSS Grottos* in the Northwest. The purpose of the NCA is to promote conservation, safety and communication among cavers in the northwestern United States and western Canada. The member Grottos and their representatives are listed below.

*A grotto is a chapter of the National Speleological Society

(Note- background image shown here is a pre-eruption photo of the old Mt St Helens, Gifford Pinchot Nat.For.)

Officers are elected by the representatives of the member grottos. The current officers are: 
   

Chairman:  Jennifer Babione 
Vice-Chair:  Marla Pelowski 
Treasurer:  Aaron Stavens 
Secretary:  Kathy Lankford 

 
GROTTOS CHAIRMAN E-MAILADDRESS DESIGNATED REPS  MEETINGS 
BEAR RIVER  Daniel Francom  robert_cranney@hotmail.com  Thomas Haskett  4th Wed/Mo. 
CASCADE  Kari Doller  cascade_grotto@caves.org  Kari Doller  3rd Fri/Mo. 
GEM STATE Bob Straub  Sideways@gemstategrotto.org  Bob Straub  3rd Wed/Mo. 
GLACIER  David Love   dklinger@rightathome.com  Dave Klinger  Varies/w/loc 
IDAHO CAVE SURVEY  Scott Earl EARLSW@inel.gov   Scott Earl  Informal 
OREGON  Ken Stickney battycaver@yahoo.com  Kim Luper  3rd Fri/Mo. 
OREGON HIGH DESERT  Matt Skeels  unadjusted@gmail.com  Matt Skeels  irregular 
SILVER SAGE  Robert Wilkinson  hiptr@mindspring.com  Chris Anderson  2nd Thurs./Mo. 
TIMPANOGOS  Robert Stilmar  cavediva@msn.com  Richard Downey  1st Thurs/Mo. 
VICEG  Margaret Countess  aboden@sfu.ca  Andrew Boden   
WILLAMETTE VALLEY  Jett Lemon  claudekoch@earthlink.net  Claude Koch  2nd Fri/Mo. 

Send suggestions for improvements to these web pages to Larry McTigue. 

I'd like to thank Brett Cook and Nick Yost for initially creating this website, which I have inherited from them. Much of what you see now, were their ideas, not mine. Nick Yost is still involved with helping me to maintain this website and make changes to the various pages. Thanks Nick!

I've linked the grotto names in the list above to their respective grotto webpage if it exists.  If you know of a change to the table above, please e-mail me with the current information.

Thanks.

Larry McTigue

Last updated June.19.2008