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Spring VAR 2012
April 27-29, 2012
Poor Farm Festival Grounds in Williamsburg, WV (NOT VA!)
Hosted by Tri-State Grotto
Once again Tri-State Grotto is hosting Spring VAR. The event will be held at the Poor Farm Festival Grounds in Williamsburg, WV. The dates for this event will be 27th, 28th, & 29th of April. We have lots of cave trips planed, including some on site plus lots of non-caving activities such as biking on the Greenbrier River Trail, Canoe or Kayak on the Greenbrier, hiking, geocatching, antiquing, and more.
FRIDAY
To start off a great weekend, Tri-State’s Chair – John DiCarlo – will host a wine and bluegrass get-together Friday night, 7pm at the stage. To participate bring a bottle of wine costing under $10.00. The Theme of the wine tasting will be Berry. Your wine should have a Berry on the label or be a type of berry wine.
SATURDAY
Saturday morning Vice Chair Bob Bennett has a very large lineup of “led trips’. Those who pre-register will have an opportunity to sign up early. Some of the trips we’re working on include: Culverson Creek, Windy Mouth, McClungs, Bone, Lost World, Poor Farm (Pocahontas), Poor Farm (Greenbriar), Organ (Lipps), Maxwelton (Photo trip), Cabble & Briar Pits, and others. John Pearson has an on-site conservation project building some steps at Poor Farm.
Saturday night‘s dinner will feature Pit Barbequed pork and chicken with beans, potato salad, coleslaw, and drinks and we haven’t forgotten you vegetarians. The owners of Poor Farm will cater the meal. We’re working on a Saturday night speaker. John Fox will DJ with the traditional cavers libations available on Saturday night.
The featured speaker Saturday night was George Dasher, who talked about geology in West Virginia. His talk was extremely well received and George has kindly made a PDF (3.6 MB) of his talk slides available here.
SUNDAY
The always popular VAR business meeting will be held Sunday morning for you speleo politicians. We’ll try to convince Front Royal Grotto to do their wonderful Sunday Breakfast.
REGISTRATION
Pre-registration is $30 for adults and $26 for those under 15. These prices increase to $35/$31 at the door. Download and print the registration form and mail it in before April 1st if you want the cheaper pre-registration price.
Reserve the dates and stay tuned for more information.