Welcome to the International Year of Caves and Karst! International years celebrate and inform the world about important topics, many of which are not known to the general public. Caves and karst occur around our planet but few people understand the great value of caves to humanity. Fewer still know what karst is. Please see…

2 EuroSpeleo NewsletterDecember 2018

https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/canadian-team-confirms-presence-huge-unexplored-cave-british-columbia

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/2018/10/flood-escape-deepest-cave-veryovkina-abkhazia/?user.testname=none

http://fox43.com/2018/02/18/how-emergency-crews-rescued-a-14-year-old-boy-from-a-cave-in-lancaster-county/

Source:USDA Forest Service – Northern Research Station   Summary:In the course of genomic analyses of the fungus behind white-nose-syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed millions of bats in North America, US Forest Service scientists discovered something very surprising: brief exposure to UV-light kills Pseudogymnoascus destructans.   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180102153209.htm

Although the intended goal was to photograph a cave, a group of grotto members dug open a cave instead. Ted Sargent, Craig Anderson, Andy Leh, George Hoch and I went to the P-Caves in Franklin County and spent many hours digging in a spot where we thought a cave might exist. It took much longer…

27 OCTOBER 2004 WEDCLUB VISIT TO SILER’S CAVE by JOEL JACOBS Harry Sowers picked up my son Dan & I and we motored down to Siler’s Cave in Berkeley County in the panhandle of West Virginia on Wednesday, October 27, 2004. We donned our gear and hiked into the woods on a barely discernable trail…

21 APRIL 2004 WEDNESDAY CLUB TRIP REPORT by JOEL JACOBS At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Harry Sowers, Ted Sargent, Sara Goode, Matt Saltzer, Doug Bischoff, Andy Leh, Ted Nichols, Dan Bell-Jacobs and Joel Jacobs gathered on Jacobs Ridge. We put all our gear into 3 cars for the 40-minute trip to Baker’s…

29 OCTOBER 2003 WEDCLUB REPORT by JOEL JACOBS On the last Wednesday of October ’03 Harry Sowers, Alan Horn, Ted Nichols and Joel Jacobs drove south in two vehicles to the panhandle of West Virginia to visit Whiting’s Neck and Indian River Caves. We donned our caving outfits in the rain and hiked up the…