Events

Meetings are held over Google Meets starting at 730 pm Eastern. The entire caving community is welcome.

She will be giving her presentation from the 2025 Western Regional about the scope and severity of interpersonal violence in caving, sharing real examples of harassment, sexual assault, stalking, and abuse from the caving community. Joyce will also address facts vs. myths about sexual violence, including misconceptions that have come up in the handling of code of conduct complaints. In closing, she'll share what audience members can do right now to help address the problem, including setting community norms, bystander intervention, and survivor support.

Meetings are held over Google Meets starting at 730 pm Eastern. The entire caving community is welcome.

EC Moe will present about the Vertical Training Commission

Meetings are held over Google Meets starting at 730 pm Eastern. The entire caving community is welcome.

T.O. Smith will speak about Conservation with the Southeastern Cave Conservancy (SCCi)

Meetings are held over Google Meets starting at 730 pm Eastern. The entire caving community is welcome.

Dr Kayla Sapkota, President of the CRF, will speak about the history, projects and future of the Cave Research Foundation.

Meetings are held over Google Meets starting at 730 pm Eastern. The entire caving community is welcome.

Chad McCain will speak about his experiences with expedition and project caving.

Meetings are held over Google Meets starting at 730 pm Eastern. The entire caving community is welcome.

OBG Member Jim Kennedy will talk about how he hates cave gates.

Jim is the head cave gater at Cave Gators which is the pre-eminent company in the United States specializing in bat-friendly closures on caves and abandoned mines.

Meetings are held over Google Meets starting at 730 pm Eastern. The entire caving community is welcome.

Ryan Jenks from HowNOT2 will speak on his role in the caving community and gear testing in general. Questions and Answers should be exciting!

This meeting will be streamed live from the HowNOT2 Youtube Channel starting at 730 pm Eastern. The entire caving community is welcome.

OBG Member Dr. Ceth Parker will be speaking about caving on the Moon.

Via Google Meets at 7:30 pm EST

Monthly Meeting with OBG Member Jay (my personal hero) Mrazek speaking about Speleogenesis and Secondary Mineralization.

Via Google Meets at 7:30 pm EST

Baltimore Grotto is hosting the pumpkin hunt! A scavenger hunt of pumpkins will be scattered in the caves local to Franklin, WV. Bring a good group to find all the pumpkins!

Monthly Meeting - Craig Williams and Michael Schoenewies will present on their archaeology projects and methodologies.

Via Google Meets at 7:30 pm EST

The Gauntlet will be attending!

Celebrate the female caving community.

Monthly Meeting - Dianne Odegard with the Austin Bat Refuge will talk about rehabilitation and other batty topics.

Via Google Meets at 7:30 pm EST

Survey trip to a remote part of Washington. There are some cold, wet, tight and sharp caves with going leads, great camping, beautiful scenery, great people, digs and good times.

Monthly Meeting - Hanna Keith, the president of the Glacier Grotto will be speaking about caving in Alaska.

Via Google Meets at 7:30 pm EST

Dr. Wennie Tabib is presenting on her research into using drones in confined spaces.

Via Google Meets at 7:30 pm EST

Monthly Meeting - Dr George Crothers, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky

Via Google Meets at 7:30 pm EST

The event is hosted by the West Virginia Association for Cave Studies (WVACS) and offers cavers an introduction into project caving and various aspects of project caving that we do! The Classic also offers a place for people new to caving an experience of the underground.

There will be guided cave trips, self-led trips, digging trips, survey trips, and sport trips going on during the WVACS Classic. There will be a sketchers workshop for those who have always wanted to learn the art of sketching. We also have a climbing tower to learn single-rope techniques for vertical caving or fine tune your vertical system.

On Saturday night there will be a catered dinner offered, followed by a caving presentation and music to boogie the night away.

Our facilities offer bunks for sleeping, but space is limited in the number of beds inside the buildings. There is plenty of room for tent camping.

The cost of the event will be $35 dollars and covers use of the facilities and dinner Saturday night. You can pre-pay on our website or pay upon arrival at the event. Pre-paying ensures you get a meal, otherwise we cannot guarantee food. If you do not want dinner it is $20 to attend.

Beginner Vertical Trip to a beautiful cave in the National Forest. There are multiple short rappels and a 150ft low angle climb. Time is to be determined.

Philip Schuchardt will give us a walk-through of the features and how to use Cavewhere. https://cavewhere.com/

The Gauntlet will be there!

Pete Johnson, the Chair of the NSS Board of Governors, will be speaking and taking questions about the Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy.

With our friends from the Gauntlet!!

Sign the waiver: https://outofboundsgrotto.org/waiver/

Monthly Meeting - OBG Member Jim Kennedy will be talking about how he hates cave gates but since they are necessary, he builds the best ones possible.

Via Google Meets at 7:30 pm EST

Starting at 8pm Central Time.

The Gauntlet Volunteers will talk about the history and future of the Gauntlet, cover some of the old and new obstacles and share about their efforts to grow the Western Gear Cache.

This is a co-presentation of the OBG, Stonewall Cavers and the entire caving community is welcome.

The Gauntlet will be there.