Welcome to the WUSS website!

If you're looking to join us, meeting time and location can be found in our FAQ. We'll be updating the site frequently, so please check back often. If you have any questions or concerns, or to report a broken link, please send an email to {webmaster@wusscavers.com}.

February 4, 2010

WUSS's 30th anniversary is this year! Check out our announcement and watch your mailboxes for more information! Cal Butchkoski of the PA Game Commission has put out an updated version of the White Nose map. Check it out here.

September 25, 2009

The trip reports link has been made public (on the trip reports page, of all places!). Submit away! Also, we now have some information about White Nose Syndrome.

September 23, 2009

The "Calendar" and "Current Officers" section has been updated.
Are you curious about what to bring caving? Check out our "What to Bring Caving" section for helpful suggestions.
More information about this will be posted as it comes, but here is some very basic information about the upcoming cleanup site.
Plus, check out the "Past Issues" section to read any back issues of Pholeos.

September 9, 2008

Our Officers' Training Retreat was a success! WUSS finally took first, after several disappointing years. Thanks to the crew at Co for all their help.
The first public meeting of the year is tomorrow. We had a near record number of people sign up at the activities fair last week, and we're hoping to find a bunch of new cavers.
Here's a selection of caving related news:
- Cave tours at Sequiota Park, MO were cancelled after a guide found a large roost of Gray Bats.
- A German man got carried away trying to protect his cave. Read about it here.
- Here's the August issue of BCI's newsletter.

August 1, 2008

The trip report link is now active. The photo gallery will be updated as soon as we can wade through the 20 gigs of photos... In dorkier news, we have had visitors from 30 countries this year, and over 500 unique visitors in July.

June 11, 2008

Pholeos was sent to the mailroom today! You can probably expect them in about a week, knowing Wittenberg. :)

WUSS has finally begun summer work in earnest. A group went down to help with the gating at Carter Caves a few weeks ago, and we've had four ODNR trips since then. The last three have been to the totally *awesome* caves of Franklin county. We'll be heading up to Put-in-Bay the middle of next week. The calendar has been updated if you want to know where we're heading.

April 11, 2008

Email addresses at the wusscavers domain are available to those who would like them. Just contact {webmaster@wusscavers.com}. In addition, it appears that the episode of "Cities of the Underworld" featuring Organ Cave has been moved to the 14th (9PM) and 15th (1AM). Maybe they aren't lying this time. ;)

April 8, 2008

The library page has been restructured. There are now links to different sections of the library. All of them are up except for the international grotto section, which is still being catalogued. Enjoy!

April 7, 2008

There have been two rescues in Mexico in the past week and a half. Trip reports are here and here. Both are in Spanish.

April 1, 2008

BCI's March newsletter is up. See it here. Also, April 7th episode of "Cities of the Underworld" on the History Channel is going to feature Organ Cave (warning: you can't turn the music off). Organ Cave is a tourist cave in WV. It was discovered over 300 years ago, has 45 miles of mapped passage, and is on the list of '30 Longest Caves in the World.' Apparently their main thing is paleontology and the history of the cave, but it looks like they have some nice formations, too.

In addition, an overview of WUSS's current open surveys has been posted.

March 30, 2008

Several things...

All of the old Pholeos issues have been posted.
Cave laws have been posted.
The calendar has been updated.
The members area is up, sort of, along with the trip report page. (Now we just need people to write them!)
Commenting has been disabled in the picture gallery, due to excessive spamming. :(