Lissi Schmitt
Cherie Picard
Tim Roberts
Matt Hardy
Jason Gullickson
Paul Dupuis
Mark Harpster

Submitted by Cherie Picard

Sharps
I was not the trip leader, but here is what we did. Entered at about 11:30 AM. We pushed up stream for about an hour ate lunch, and started back. Run into some members of a New Jersey Grotto. Found an access to the upstream side of a water fall (about an 11 foot drop). Then we returned to the surface around 3 PM. I had a hard time getting out and required some assistane, but I enjoyed myself and would return again to help find the down stream access to the water fall. Cherie Picard

Bowden
I was not the trip leader, but here is what we did. Seven people went down the hollow to the second entrance (I think it was) to do a thru trip that timmer was leading. The rest went in the main entrance at about 11:30 AM to explore. We went into the shower room and explored the brakedown pile right outside the room. They found a hole in the wall that was up about 8 feet. They helped Paul up in, but it did not go any where. We then went up the stream passage and met up the the team doing the thru trip. We all ate lunch and continued on our way. The thru trip team went down the stream passage, to the shower room and to the main entrance. The rest went into to the pendet room, then back down the stream passage and out the main entrance (around 2:30 PM). I had alot of fun. Hope to do it again. Cherie Picard

The Weekend
We all met at Al's place (in the end) to leave extra cars. Left around 6:30-7 PM. We got to the cabin around 11:30. We ended up lossing Timmer along the way, because we change the way we were going down. He ended up at the cabin about a half hour after us. The cabin was not what we had expected, It was better. There was electric, but there was an outhouse that was very drafty. The first night was very cold, because we had to start the wood burning stove. We got up around 8:30 AM to go to Sharps. When we got back the cabin was nice and toasty. We were going to go to another cave or to a party that the New Jersey Grotto had invited us to after we ate, but we were not motivated. Instead we played Uno and Scategories. While others (who I will not name, but they know who they are) were running outside in the snow with no shoes on. Sleeping Saturday night was much warmer, until the fire went out. We all got up around 7 AM, to pack and clean the cabin before we left for Bowden. The trip home was uneventful for all (I hope). Gary and his wife stayed at a motel that was a few miles down the road. Boy am I glad because at least we could us a real bathroom once or twice. (Thank you Gary.) We need to thank Kevin Price for getting the cabin for us to use and I an sending a Thank You card to Mr. Jeff Cromer, Thanking him for the us of the cabin. I hope that we will be able to use it again someday. Thank you Kevin (if you read this). Hope I didn't miss anything. Cherie Picard