Oregon Grotto

Hells Canyon
2024-11-07 08:00 - 2024-11-11 17:00 UTC
Exploring small limestone caves in Hells Canyon Idaho. Meet at the Big Bar campground. Near Allison Creek trail head. If you get there before others , you can hike the Allison Creek trail head and see a few small caves. Or wild hike up Dry Creek for more little caves.

Halloween Party
2024-10-26 19:00 - 23:00 | 8550 SW Wickiup Ave. Redmond Oregon, 8550 SW wickiup Ave, Redmond, OR, 97756, United States
All,
Yes, the famous Halloween party is a go for this year!! Mark your calendar…Saturday OCTOBER 26 2024 starting at 7 PM.

See the attached invitation! House is an epic haunt, crawling with animatronics, and the food is all home made…tamales, jalapeno corn, the famous flaming guacamole, and of course…the porch crawler margarita. The training center rope tower will also be open with glowing pipe crawls and zip lines… (on that note…can always use a couple of non-drinkers mountain rescue types to help supervise the vertical sports…)

If you are part of a group, team, or agency we usually affiliate with..feel free to share with others…I do not have emails for everyone in all the teams I am part of.

Some accommodations available in the cabin and tipi…just advise so we can reserve for you. Have a few extra rooms as well. Those traveling a distance will have priority…

Breakfast known to happen the day after…

Hope to see friends…old and new…and bring whatever pot luck dish you can summon! Welcome to bring others… RSVP if you can for food count…but I get it…no one really knows any more.

Thanks a lot! See you then!

Eddy Cartaya

Trout Lake Camp Out
2024-10-04 08:00 - 2024-10-06 17:00 | Trout Creek Campground, WA, United States
The WVG will hold our 3rd annual Caver’s Campout (aka WR Decompression) Friday October 4th through Sunday the 6th at Trout Lake Creek Campground.
We’ll camp at the Trout Lake Creek Campground (off the main road to Deadhorse). Claude will reserve one of the group camps for us (no charge to you to camp there, feel free to get your own site if you like ($15/night). They have vault toilets. They have no water so bring your own. (there is a beautiful stream if you prefer to filter your water). We’re hoping that campfires will be allowed at the campground. This is the campground’s website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/giffordpinchot/recarea/?recid=31960
Saturday evening at 7:PM, if there are enough people interested, we’ll hold a Western Regional debriefing. It seems a smart idea to hold a brief(?) meeting to discuss what went well, what didn’t go well and why, vent your feelings and discuss what might be good ideas for future Regionals.
After all the work that so many people put in to organize the Regional, we’re not currently ‘planning’ any cave trips (subject to change, especially after the dust from the Regional has settled). Of course cave trips are sure to take place! Bring your ideas for caves you’d like to check out (Dynamited?, Deadhorse?, Pickards Sink?, JaR and Resurrection?, etc). Feel free to respond back to this if there’s a cave you’ve been wanting to see or lead a trip to.
Directions:
From the “Y” in Trout Lake, go west on WA-141 N, drive 1.7 miles
Turn right onto Trout Lake Creek Rd. (Trout Lake Creek Rd becomes Forest Road 88, this is also the road to Deadhorse), drive 4.6 miles
Turn right onto NF-8810, drive 1.2 miles Turn right onto NF-010, drive .3 miles
Turn right onto FS-8810-011, drive 150 feet
Turn right into Trout Lake Campground.
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Look for pie plates that say “WVG” or just drive around till you find us (unless you’re first, then you’re on your own!).
Note: their website has slightly different directions than what I’ve posted above.
If you use your cell phone to navigate to the campground, be sure to set it up BEFORE you loose cell reception!

Ape Cave
2024-09-22 10:00 - 17:00
One of the biggest caves on Mount Saint Helens, lower section is easy, while upper section has more challenge. Has upper entrance so can big one way for the upper part. Meet at Ape cave trail head at 10 AM, northwest forest pass required, carpool if you can.
Leader Jaq.

Lady of Fire
2024-09-22 10:00 - 17:00
Lady of Fire, just open in 2023 is a nice well decorated cave. One of the highest caves on the mountain. It’s a nice 1 1/2 mile hike with great views of the mountain. The caves has a not too bad squeeze in entrance and a short crawl to almost all walking cave with little breakdown. This is a cold cave. Expect two hours in cave to see most of the 4500 feet of passages, and take lots of pictures of the formations.

Flow
2024-09-22 10:00 - 15:00
Flow cave is one of the most colorful caves on the mountain and with many neat features. Trip will meet at Cougar Rest Stop 10 AM on Sunday 22nd. Hike is probably more then a mile, but fairly easy.

Dogwood and Helium Cave
2024-09-21 11:00 - 17:00
Dogwood is an short easy walking cave with a few formations. Helium cave is longer with lots of crawls, and some neat features.
Meet at the Beaver Bay area parking 2 miles east of Cougar by Powerlines 11AM.

Deadhorse
2024-09-21 08:30 - 17:00
Large cave with lots of mazy passages. Also has a spring inside the cave and multi-level. Mix of walking and crawling.
Cave is in the Trout Lake area about two hours from Cougar.
Meet Sat. 8:30 AM at Cougar rest stop.
Leader Maurice.

Lake Cave
2024-09-19 - 2024-09-22
This will be a self guided trip. You Park at the Trail of Two Forest, which requires a NW forest pass. They have machine in parking lot. Also maybe available at Cougar store. The cave is about 10 min. walk past the outhouse. The is almost all walking, with a ladder climb down and another easy climb down. There will be lots of breakdown for awhile. keep an eye out alone wall for melt features and further down for a side erosional passage. The lake usually dries up in summer. Also near the entrance check out the side red passage.
Check out video link under website link.

Oregon Grotto Meeting
2024-06-21 20:00 - 21:30
Round Table Pizza 8PM as normal. See website.
