The Utah Caving Forum

Glad to hear there is somebody local for Lost Creek.

After several discussions via email, I have several people that think it can be done. Limiting factor sounds like getting the correct GIS files and converting it to a system that is useful. And then d ...

Had run across this article recently. http://www.surveyequipment.com/news/article/australian-scientists-develop-3d-cave-surveying-system-188305.html

Which leads me to find this youtube video: (Watc ...

When ridgewalking, it would be nice to have a roughly defined border to look in. It seems like a geologic map of the appropriate limestone layers should be able to export to a GPS file somehow. (I hav ...

Does anybody have a system they use to prioritize cave leads or projects? I have half a dozen leads I want to follow up on this summer, all in different directions.

A few choices are easy. Hot dese ...

There have been some involved comments regarding what to do with the Utah Caver publication going forward. They are getting harder to track and deal with in the email based discussion. I have proposed ...

There will be a prize awarded for the best pictures submitted to the Utah Caver for the upcoming publication. There is a limit of one entry per person, with voting to come from grotto members after t ...

Location ideas:

Library's in SL county or Utah county. We already have some connections that could be followed up on. Limiting factor is usually a hard cutoff time of having to be out before 9:0 ...

It has been discussed having each grotto host at least one larger presentation per year. These would be items of interest to the cavers statewide, and planned well in advance for scheduling purposes. ...

(This is probably on the longer end of what I'm really looking for, but had some time to simply write, and kept on going.)

I had some incidental caving opportunities prior to finding the Grottos in ...

This topic is an "Introduce yourself" list, ideally with a few extra pieces of information.

I am working on a couple of ideas for redesigning websites, helping new people find the grotto's, etc. I ...

My experience after a few years of playing with ropes of different lengths: (All 11mm Pit Rope)

100' covers many of the basic drops, and is a small enough bundle you don't mind hauling it for a han ...

I like the idea of keeping this forum, but am not sure how to promote it being used more actively. Low participation is the only issue I have with the forum.

(And low participation leads to people ...

Any thoughts on consolidating the Utah Grottos in some way?

Looking for any thoughts or ideas. It gets discussed frequently in side conversations on trips and after meetings, lets get some of the p ...

There have also been requests for help mapping caves in Soapstone and Tony Grove. Best before snow falls, given the high elevations.

Several projects out in the Great Basin ranges, I'm stalling on ...