Cascade Grotto Meeting
Hybrid meeting (Phinney Neighborhood Association and Google Meet)
Wednesday August 7, 2024

General Meeting

Presentation

Poet’s Crest by Mark Garnick

Trip Reports

Lady of Fire cave

• Avril

Papoose

• Drew, Tommy, & others
• issue(s) with cave lock
• worth the drive (6 hrs!)

Cave ridge

• Lots of people
• rerigged newton w/ 9.5mm (fast ropes!)
• attempt at survey/exploration of exhilation (lots of air!)

Poets’ Crest

• Mark, Kelden, & others
• lots of digging
• cold caves

Pirates treasure

• Abigail
• small crack, not much treasure sadly

Announcements

September meeting

• likely delayed 1 week due to many people absent

SPAR class in Bend, OR

• Mid august
• lots of local members going there

Scapegoat expedition

• Late August/Early sept

Ridley creek trip (N of Poet’s crest)

• Mark
• Friday 16th of August through Sunday
• check out sinkholes

Poets Crest Trip

• Friday 23rd of August through Sunday

Papoose trip

• 28th-29th (or Oct)

Trout lake Halloween trip

• Nov 1-3
• Bring costumes!

Cave ridge trip

• at some point

Western regional update

• weekend of Sept 19-22
• USFS has concerns and we are working through them
• camp and car sites are all sold out with a waitlist
• lone fir motel is still available for that day