The Caving Podcast

The Caving Podcast celebrates four years with a dream guest. Pat Kambesis has been exploring caves for decades. She discovered the Chandelier Ballroom in Lechuguilla, and has been caving all over the world.

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KOR and Speleofest were cancelled this year due to Covid-19, so please consider membership or a donation to the following grottos:
http://louisville.caves.org/
https://www.gcgcavers.com/

If there were a "30 under 30" list of cavers, Tristan would probably be on it. We talk about his early days in Indiana, all the way up to his recent New Zealand expedition.

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Vote for the NSS Board of Governors! Voting closes June 25th. https://caves.org/committee/nominating/Platforms2020.shtml

NSS Virtual Convention 2020
July 27th-31st
https://nsscon2020.org/

TAG caver Jennifer Pinkley wrote the book on Fern Cave, and worked for the NSS for a time. We talk about her long caving life, as well as a funny rescue story.

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Support this month's karst conservancy: Cave Conservancy of The Virginias
https://caveconservancyofvirginia.org/

All the way from Australia to talk about her rich caving life, and the effort to help save the Australian karst regions devastated by the recent bushfires. You can donate to that effort here:
https://www.caves.org.au/conservation

Save Cyclops Cave in Virginia!
http://savecyclops.org/

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Colorado caver Richard Rhinehart has led a significant caving life and is still fighting for caves. He's currently part of an effort to save Witches' Pantry Cave from a quarry development, which would threaten it and a whole karst region from destruction.

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Give to this month's karst conservancy, The Australian Speleological Federation Karst Conservation Fund. Contribute to their Cave Landscape Bushfire Rehabilitation Appeal at https://www.gofundme.com/f/cave-landscape-bushfire-rehabilitation-appeal
Visit the Australian Speleological Federation at https://www.caves.org.au/

Zach started in TAG before heading West in his van. Despite how new he is to caving, he has done an awful lot in some big ways.

Donate to this month's cave preserve: The Black Hills Cave and Nature Conservancy
https://www.pahasapagrotto.org/bhcnc.html

Speleobooks owner and 50-year caving veteran Emily Davis has dedicated her life to caving and conservation. She was also the subject of the 1991 rescue in Lechuguilla.

Emily's links:
http://speleobooks.com/
http://www.necaveconservancy.org/

Give to this month's cave conservancy!
https://www.hawaiicaves.org/
Cave Conservancy of Hawaii
P.O. Box 7083
Ocean View, HI 96737

This South Dakota caver spends a lot of time in that cave-famous southwestern corner of the state, but he's done his fair share of exploration in plenty of other significant caves.

Learn more about this month's featured cave conservancy, the West Virginia Cave Conservancy at https://wvcc.net/

Gilly has participated in several expeditions to Mexico--one of which was pretty harrowing. We also talked about her trip through Krubera, which she wrote about in the March 2019 edition of the NSS News.

Support this month's cave conservancy!
http://www.westerncaves.org/donate-now/

Colorado caver Derek Bristol has been on a number of major expeditions, including several to Lechuguilla. We talk about his early days, return to caving after a 14-year dry spell, and his popular YouTube channel.

Support this month's cave conservancy! The Northeastern Cave Conservancy: http://www.necaveconservancy.org/