Events

2024 Cascade Grotto Caving Club of Washington State Events List

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All grotto meetings are free and open to the public! Come learn about caving! Dates and details subject to change, check back often, site continuously updated. If you want to participate in anything listed on this page and want to go on the trip, email cascade_grotto@caves.org and we will connect you to the trip leader!

Meetings

Grotto meetings are hybrid and occur on the first Wednesday of the month in Seattle at Room 35 in the lower, brick building in the Phinney Ridge Community Center. 6615 Dayton Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103

Check our Facebook page or email closer to the event to find out the room and a link to the virtual meeting!

  • May 1st, 7-9pm. Presentation: Rescue in Fisher Ridge Cave System by Sean Lewis
  • June 5th, 7-9pm. Presentation: Proyecto Espeleológico Sistema Huautla (PESH) by Eric Jorgenson
  • July 3rd, 7-9pm. Presentation TBD.
  • August 7th, 7-9pm. Presentation TBD.
  • September 4th, 7-9pm. Presentation TBD.
  • October 2nd, 7-9pm. Presentation TBD.
  • November 6th, 7-9pm. Presentation TBD.
  • December. Holiday party.
    • Time and location TBD

Trainings

Come learn how to move through vertical caves! No experience necessary.

  • April. Vertical Training in Tacoma / Olympia area.
  • May 11th. Vertical Training in Mount Vernon.
  • May 22nd. Vertical Training at Ravenna Park in Seattle.
  • More TBA

Trips

  • April 27th. Church Mountain Cave in Concrete, WA.
  • May 3rd – 5th. Annual Beginners Weekend in Cougar, WA.
  • May 17th – 19th. Vancouver Island Caving weekend with VICEG in Port Alberni, BC
  • May 31st – June 2nd. Beginners Vertical Weekend at Hollow Mountain (Lewis River Horse Camp).
  • June 15th – 22th. Grotto trip to Vancouver Island led by Richard Jack.
  • July 12th – 14th. Cave Ridge camp.
  • August. Poet’s Crest exploration trips led by Mark Garnick.
  • August. Windy Creek Cave camp.
  • September 19th – 22nd. Western Regional.
  • September 27th – 29th. Papoose (Idaho) weekend.
  • October 25th – 27th. Grotto Halloween in Trout Lake, WA.

REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CAVING EVENTS

This section is only occasionally updated. See this page for current listings: https://caves.org/info/events.shtml

NSS Western Regional, Cougar, Washington September 2024

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