Caving Events

USA 2018

• July 21 - 26, 2018 - 18th International Volcanospeleology Symposium - at Tulelake, California.
  To be held at Winema Lodge, this 6-day combination of seminar talks, active caving, and specialty events highlighting volcanos, caves, and environmental and historic aspects of its location in Lava Beds National Monument. There will be pre- and post-trips available, including ice-caving, river rafting, 4-wheel-drive trips, a trip to Crater Lake, and more. Website and information can be found at www.18ivslavabeds.com.
  
• July 28 - August 4, 2018 - 2018 NSS Convention - at Helena, Montana.
  See http://nss2018.caves.org/ for more information.
  
• August 17 - 19, 2018 - 65th Annual Indiana Cave Capers - at Mitchell, Indiana. ICC will return to beautiful, wooded Camp Rivervale near Mitchell, Indiana, centrally located to lots of great caves. Friday night kicks off with a howdy party and music, followed by great caving opportunities for the weekend. Saturday night features a banquet, keynote speaker, door prizes and fun! And, of course, our caving gear vendor, Inner Mountain Outfitters, will be there to supply all of your gear needs. The site also offers breakfast, cabins and a swimming pool. For more information and online registration, visit http://www.cigcaves.com or for human communication contact Ron Adams, 317-490-7727 or caveronrope@sbcglobal.net.
  
• August 30 - Sept. 3, 2018 - Old Timer's Reunion 2018 - at Dailey, West Virginia.
  OTR is a fun caving event held every Labor Day weekend ... featuring caving, camping, music, dancing, and other fun activities. Pre-registration (i.e. Membership) is required to attend.
  See https://www.otr.org/ and Facebook OTR2018 for more information.
  
• September 28-30, 2018 - KKC's Fall into the Gorge - Red River Gorge, Kentucky
  The Kentucky Karst Conservancy will be hosting a weekend of camping and activities at the Red River Gorge. We have exclusive access to the privately-owned Pumpkin Bottoms campground in the heart of the Red River Gorge. Included is 2 nights of camping, rappelling, kayaking, and cave mapping. You must pre-pay in order to attend. Payment can be made through the KKC's website via PayPal or by contacting the Treasurer at stephanie.coffey.ca@gmail.com. Cost to attend is only $20 for the whole weekend! Space is limited. This is a fundraiser to support the acquisition of caves in Kentucky. For more information please see our website: https://kentuckykarstconservancy.org/fall-into-the-gorge.
  
• October 4-7, 2018 - 41st Annual TAG Fall Cave-In - Lookout Mountain, Georgia
  TAG Fall Cave-In on Lookout Mountain, GA. Dogwood City Grotto will again be hosting the TAG Fall Cave-In. Please come join us. Caving is A-MAZE-ing!!! Pre-Registration begins in June.
  More info at https://dogwoodcitygrotto.org/TAG-Fall-Cave-In.
  
• October 5-7, 2018 - 5th Texas Hydro-Geo Workshop - at Cave Without a Name, near Boerne, Texas
  We're adding some new modules to the workshop to include more aquatic biology and we're working on the final details for our keynote speaker. The event will start on Friday evening and run though noon on Sunday. We are again expecting 350 participants and will have somewhere around 40 concurrent modules to choose from. Modules will emphasis the collection and analysis of field data. There will be lightening talks on Friday evening and Saturday evening after the keynote speaker. Early registration is $50 and includes Saturday and Sunday breakfast, Saturday dinner, T shirt, camping, books. If you are interested in staffing the event, please email me and we'll fill you in on the details.
  For more information and to register for the event, go to www.hydrogeoworkshop.org.
    Thanks, Geary Schindel, Co-Chair -- email: gschindel@edwardsaquifer.org
• November 10, 2018 - Fall NSS Board of Governor's Meeting - Huntsville, Alabama
  The Fall NSS BoG Meeting will take place at 9AM on Saturday, Nov. 10th, at the NSS Headquarters, 6001 Pulaski Pike, Huntsville, AL 35810-1122. The NSS BOG Meeting is open to the membership and is where the general business of the Society will be discussed.
  

USA 2019

• May 11 - 18, 2019 - NCRC National Training Seminar - at Cordon, Indiana. Details to follow.
  
• June 17 - 21, 2019 - 2019 NSS Convention - at Cookeville, Tennessee.
    Details to follow.
  

USA 2020

• June 12 - 20, 2020 (tentative) - NCRC National Training Seminar - at Voorheesville, NY. Date is tentative. Details to follow.
  

INTERNATIONAL

• August 10 - 12, 2018 - Stasiun Nol Festival 2018 - in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
        Stasiun Nol Festival 2018 is a cave mapping festival for Indonesian cavers and speleologists. The festival will take place in Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta. This festival will be the second to occur, since the Stasiun Nol Festival 2016 was the first cave mapping festival ever held in Indonesia.
        The festival covers various programs, all with the aim to improve skill and knowledge on cave mapping among Indonesian cavers and speleologist, but the major programs will be a cave mapping seminar, and a cave map contest and exhibition.
        On the cave map exhibition, we want to give Indonesian cave surveyors an opportunity to learn from cave maps from all over the world. To achieve that goal, we invite members of your organization or federation to participate in the exhibition as non contestant by sending us cave maps in PDF form. We, the committee of Stasiun Nol Festival 2018 will really appreciate this participation, and so will cave mappers of our country.
        It will even be a greater experience for us, to have cave mappers from your country as our guests in the festival.
        Click this link to see the 2016 event report: StasiunNolFestival2016.pdf.
              For program details, see the event webpage at http://stasiunnolfestival.org/.
              Use the on-page translator to convert to any language.
• September 23 - 29, 2018 - SpeleoPhoto Plein air and Workshop - in Ukraine.
  Chortkiv Speleo club Krystal, Borshchiv Museum Spelesection, Ternopil Speleo club Podilla and Ukrainian Speleo Association invite landscape, caving, and extreme photographers to Photo Plein air and Workshops - SpeleoPhoto in most famous gypsum caves of Western Ukraine - Cave Ozerna (145 km long), Cryshtaleva cave (23 km long), Mlynky cave (50 km long), Ugryn cave (2,2 km long), Verteba cave (8 km long) and cave Optymistychna (250 km long).
  For program details and requirements, see the event page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Speleophoto/.
  
• October 12-18, 2018 - 8th ISCA Congress - Genga and Fabriano, Italy
      NOTE: The Pre-Registration deadline has been extended to June 30, 2018.
        Every 4 years we have the wonderful opportunity to come togther at the International Show Cave Association's Congress to network, learn, and experience the unique caves, beauty, tastes, history, culture, and hospitality of our host's region. This October 2018, ISCA's 8th Congress is being hosted by the spectacular Frasassi Cave in the villages of Genga and Fabriano in the beautiful Marche Region of Italy. Home to Frasassi Cave, Genga, Italy holds the honor of being the birth place of ISCA. Here in this charming village, the association was conceived and the lst congress was held in 1990. Since that time, the ISCA headquarters have been hosted by Frasassi Cave in the historic Genga castle.
        During the Congress we will have the opportunity to visit the world famous Frasassi Cave and other wonderful sites and activities in the region. I also hope you will take advantage of the Pre-Tour in the Tuscany Region and the Post-Tour in and around Rome and the Campania Region. We are an association of people, scientists, organizatlons, and government agencies, from around the world who have an interest in the development, management, and conservation of show caves.
        For more information, go to http://www.i-s-c-a.com/event/68-8th-isca-congress.