To: wvusg@yahoogroups.com From: "John Tudek" Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:57:13 -0500 Subject: [wvusg] Grotto Meeting Minutes 1-16-08 Meeting was called to order at 8:07 by chairperson John Harman. -- Old Business -- Financial Report: We have $795.45. This includes the football game payment. We've paid for the past two WV Cavers and have a receipt for some bolts installed into Maidens Run which still has to be deducted from the budget. Student grant (Kyle / Dave / John): No report. Grotto Gear Locker (John C. / John H.): We have not yet bought the locks yet. John H. will try to buy them by next meeting. -- Upcoming Trips -- Scott Hollow (Rich F.): Rich is still planning on putting together that trip. There will still be another trip that weekend led by John T. (possibly to Organ Cave). It's tentatively Jan 26th, contingent on Ben's agreement. Vertical Rodeo: We're thinking of doing this at Rich's place, on a weekend day (possibly a Sunday afternoon). We're tentatively thinking of having this on Feb 3rd (Sunday afternoon). -- New Business -- Change of meeting time: Business portions (i.e. the boring bits) of the meeting will now start at 7:30pm, with the fun portions of the meetings (presentations, trip reports, etc...) starting at 8:00. Photo trip reports should be concise (about 5 mins of photos). WVUSG hosting YTR: WVUSG is willing to look at hosting YTR with John T. coordinating it. He'll get back to us with some info about people interested / cost / etc... Maiden Run survey: The student Grotto would like to thank Aaron Byrd and Dave Riggs for their contributions of time and equipment to the re-rigging of the cave. We're now looking to get the cave resurveyed. We'll be doing survey trips on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There's also going to be a surface survey to help people learn how t survey on Jan 21 (MLK Day). Time to be discussed on the list-serve. Caving Flyers: Rich suggested that we send flyers out to other student orgs to take them caving (as a way to introduce them to caving). Wisp Night: We talked about skipping a meeting and going to Wisp instead (or we can go to McDonalds' and get discount tickets for Thursday skiing). We're setting a tentative date of Jan 31 for that. New Flag: We talked about making a new grotto flag (having found our old flag). Kyle volunteered to look into it. -- Trip Reports -- All sorts of places were visited over the break! We went to: - Brian Masney, John Harman, and Cullen Hencke surveyed in Windy Slope Cave - Dave Riggs, John Harman, and Aaron Bird fixed the rigging in Maiden Run - John Harman and Cullen Hencke did some caving in Germany Valley - Brian Masney, Dave Riggs, Mary Schmidt, Aaron Bird, and Dennis Melko went to Mexico and TAG (photos next meeting). - John Harman did Elkhorn Mtn. with his father. Meeting adjourned at 8:53 to BWWW