9.23.25 Tritrogs Meeting
Introductions
If you could bring ne person into a cave, who would it be?
Taylor T Chair- mother
Lisa (online)- father
Mark D (online)- Dumbledore
Mike B (online)- Gandalf
Melissa- (online)- dad
April N (online)- friend who studied geology
Mark (online)- friend Gina
Matthew- brother
Ken W.- visually impaired
Emily- JRR Tolkein
Diana- maybe mother
Peter- Princess Diana, OJ simpson, and Ken
Taylor- Daft Punk
Quentin- Arnold
Jacob- mom
Piotr- academic advisor
Matthew- nephew
Zeke- Benjamin Franklin
Melanie- Derek Bristol or BIll Stone
John- politicians
Jilian (online)- no response
15 attendees in person
Business-
Outstanding balances for loaner gear/t shirts distribution
Surface watch and callout times
1 Establish a specific contact person ahead of time
2 Provide the name of the cave, coordinates, general route/trip plan, and names of folks in your group
3 Give an expected callout time (ex. 6pm before dinner) and an emergency callout time (ex 8 am the following day, begin rescue)
Emergency callout:
Expect 911 will be called
Recomended to pick a time that is not the middle of the night
Providing info about cars is also useful.
Make sure to pack extra supplies anyways n case you get lost. 24hrs of supplies
Optimal group size 4 to 6 in case rescue needs to be contacted.
Trip Reports:
Aug 30 New River and Tawneys New cavers along on trip. Made it to forest room
Other group did some squeezes
Labor day bat ranch celebration
Sept Fern survey and paint rock river cave- Melanie
Sept 6: Clover Hollow and Pig Hole Matt B and Melanie. Mike B Mike Y Lisa Jake did second group. Dropped empires ledge
Sept 13 Pre-Climb and New River- Matthew W Pilot Mountain climbed three routes. Jacob described trip into new river cave to water fall. Tuxedo junction
Sept 21 Tritrogs at Rocky Face
Upcoming Trips/Events
Sept 27 Rehoboth Church (full) likely to be rescheduled due to weather
Oct 12 (Sun) Hancock
Oct 17 to 19 Fall VAR at Brass fields station. Ken W has a room for one more to those who are going
Nov 15 back of New River. Go through sock puppet. Jacob, Matthew, Taylor T, Maybe Melissa
Oct clover hollow trip is full
Seminar
Melanie presented on webbing. Often 50 ft or 2 25 ft webbing.
Put knots at equal distance from each other. NCRC says 4 fingers.
Use basket hitch to create anchor for rope. You can anchor to people
Wrap 3 pull 2.
Water knot very good for webbing.
Tube webbing exists and is stronger than flat webbing. More resistant to abrasion