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November Happy Hour
Happy hour time, last one of 2015!
AT LONG LAST THERE WILL BE HOME BREW AGAIN! Though that’s not exactly true as has Theral picked up the slack with a couple ales while renovations had the Scott brewery shut down.
Bring photos and regale us, over a beer, with stories of your latest caving adventures or ask about how to get into caving in California and meet some fun people. If you have photos to share of a recent caving trip, bring a URL, USB drive or a laptop and we’ll show them on the big screen. If nothing else I can talk about trip planning for an upcoming expedition to the Philippines.
Drop by anytime after 7pm. There will be beer, wine, snacks and lentil soup.
Location:
Mark & Elaine Scott’s house
Caver Happy Hour in San Francisco Tomorrow, Tuesday October 20, 7pm
Happy hour time!
Bring photos and regale us, over a beer, with stories of your latest caving adventures or ask about how to get into caving in California and meet some fun people. If you have photos to share of a recent caving trip, bring a URL, USB drive or a laptop and we’ll show them on the big screen. I’m hoping for some good TAG photos this month.
Drop by anytime after 7pm. There will be beer, wine and snacks. Dinner this time is bhindi bhaji and lamb madras, made with as mild spice as Mark was capable.
Street parking in the Mission is free after 6pm, and the house is less than a block from the 24th Mission BART station.
Elaine & Mark
Vertical practice tomorrow, Tuesday, 6 October
Howdy!
Yes, it’s that time of the month again! Time to join your fellow cavers
and get high. By climbing on rope, that is.
Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, 6 October, for our monthly vertical practice.
We can practice from something very basic to something very complex.
Choose your own adventure!
Our kind hosts will be Bill and Peri Frantz. You can arrive anytime
after 6:30, and after dinner we will get on rope to practice. Please
bring a helmet and a headlamp, and a jacket, since we will be practicing
outdoors. If you don’t have yet a helmet or headlamp, do come still
since we will have a couple of extras. Bring your vertical gear if you
have it, and if not, we will also have a couple of extras.
The address to the Frantz Haunted House, Cider Mill and Corn Maze is:
16345 Englewood Ave
Los Gatos, CA 95032
http://goo.gl/maps/rKNoy
Looking forward to seeing you this Tuesday!
– Fofo
Vertical practice moved to this coming week
Howdy!
There won’t be a vertical practice tomorrow (1 September), we will hold
it the following week (8 September) at the Peri and Bill’s place in Los
Gatos.
Have a great week, and see you soon!
– Fofo
August Members Meeting
Friendly reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, Aug 25th, at 7:30 pm is the members meeting.
Members Meeting (7:30pm – 9:00pm)
345 Middlefield Rd. Menlo Park, CA
This month’s presentation (25min) will be a video on Hidden Cave provided to us by Matt Bowers.
Hidden Cave is an archaeological site which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in 1972, as part of Grimes Point. It is located seven miles east of Fallon, NV on the north side of U.S. Highway 50.
The cave itself was formed around 21,000 years ago by the waves of rising Pleistocene Lake Lahontan. In the mid-1920’s, the cave was found by four school boys, the first 20th century humans to do so. The cave has been excavated by archaeologists three times: once in 1940, again in 1951, and finally a large excavation in 1979-1980 by the American Museum of Natural History. A high proportion of the artifacts found in Hidden Cave were unbroken and arranged in concentrations. That led to the conclusion that 3,500 to 3,800 years ago people used the cave more as a cache (a place to store objects for later) than for habitation.
Agenda:
- Social / Introductions [7:30 PM]
- Video Presentation
- Welcome new guests/members [8:00 PM]
- Trip Reports | Planning | Sign Ups
- Business Announcements
Break/Oasis
- Exec Meeting (all welcome) [9:00 PM]
Share:
We’ll be sharing recent photos at the meeting!
Whether it’s with the grotto, on your own, or with others; bring photos, cool gear, or anything that you’d like to share. We love hearing about it and we want to hear from you.
Pre-meeting Dinner (6:30pm – 7:15pm)
If you’re interested in catching a bite to eat prior to the meeting, you can find folks here
@ Jason’s Cafe
1246 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 9402
Post-meeting Social (9:00pm)
@ Oasis Beer Garden
241 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.
Photo of the month:
July Members Meeting — *** Grotto Social and New Location ***
*** Grotto Social and Potluck ***
The members meeting this July will be a social potluck at member Dat’s house in Menlo Park (2 min away from the USGS) on, Tuesday, July 28th, at 7:30 pm.
The social is potluck style. Chips, salsa, and snacks will be served. Feel free to bring a main course for yourself and something to share. Bring photos or upload them!
*** NEW LOCATION ***
*** NEW LOCATION ***
*** NEW LOCATION ***
1 Heritage Ct, Atherton, CA 94027
*Please do NOT park in the house’s rotunda
Green denotes good parking areas for easy reference.
Members Meeting (7:30pm – 9:00pm)
@ 1 Heritage Ct, Atherton, CA 940271 Heritage Ct, Atherton, CA 94027
Agenda:
Pre-meeting Stuff
- Exec Meeting (All Welcome) [6.30 PM]
- Grotto Business
Members Meeting
- Social / Introductions [7:30 PM]
- Welcome new guests/members
- Announcements [8:00 PM]
- Photo Presentations / Trip Reports
- Planning | Sign Ups
July Happy Hour
Happy hour time 7/21/2015!
Bring photos and regale us, over a beer, with stories of your latest caving adventures or ask about how to get into caving in California and meet some fun people. If you have photos to share of a recent caving trip, bring a URL, USB drive or a laptop and we’ll show them on the big screen.
Drop by anytime after 7pm. There will be beer, wine and veggie-barley soup.
Street parking in the Mission is free after 6pm, and the house is less than a block from the 24th Mission BART station.
Elaine (& Mark in spirit from some naval base in SoCal)
Contact elaine@verylost.com for location.
June Members Meeting
Friendly reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23th, at 7:30 pm is the members meeting.
Members Meeting (7:30pm – 9:00pm)
This month’s presentation (25min) will be a short preview for the 2015 NSS Convention in Waynesville, MO.
Agenda:
- Social / Introductions [7:30 PM]
- Announcements
- Video Presentation
- Welcome new guests/members [8:00 PM]
- Trip Reports | Planning | Sign Ups
Break/Oasis
- Business items
Share:
We’ll be sharing recent photos at the meeting!
Whether it’s with the grotto, on your own, or with others; bring photos, cool gear, or anything that you’d like to share. We love hearing about it and we want to hear from you.
Pre-meeting Dinner and Exec Meeting (6:30pm – 7:15pm)
@ Jason’s Cafe. All are welcome to join.
1246 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Post-meeting Social (9:00pm)
@ Oasis Beer Garden
241 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
Cathedral Room in Church Cave, CA
Photo by Steven Johnson
July SFBC Vertical Practice
The vertical practice in July will move to Ron’s place.
The address is:
18 Woodwardia Ave
Felton, CA
and our phone is:
Instructions on how to get here are at:
http://www.rpbourret.com/pers
Please note that we don’t have much parking at the house; people should use the alternate parking shown on the map. If somebody does come to the house, be aware that Google Maps gets things right but Apple apparently does not, directing you to a bridge that closed a couple of years ago.
We will have a BBQ, so people should bring something for the grill and something to share.