Welcome to the WUSS website!
If you're looking to join us, we meet every Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in room 319 of the Barbara Kuss Science Center on Wittenberg University campus. 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}.
December 11, 2012
The website and registration is now up for Winter Adventure Weekend 2013 at Carter Caves State Resort Park, KY! There are lots of fantastic trip options, and caving trips are back this year! If you are interested in any of the trips, please remember to register early, as trips tend to fill up really fast. If you already know what trips you want, you can jump right to the WAW registration page by clicking Here.
September 19, 2012
We have updated our Photos page with pictures from our recent trips, including our harrowing survey of the OTR Campground and WUSS's Intro Trip to Sloan's Cave, KY.
July 30, 2012
Looking for ways to stay up to date on what WUSS is doing, why don't you search for our group on Facebook or you can check out our YouTube channel or our Wikipedia page.
April 26, 2012
We have updated our Photos page with pictures of our recent exploits...enjoy!
February 27, 2012
We will be having a vertical clinic this Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Consult our Calendar for more information.
During the vertical clinic we will be doing vertical checks for the upcoming TAG trip. For the criteria we will be checking for, consult the WUSS Vertical Caving Skills Checklist on our new Vertical Section page.
February 22, 2012
We have added a new Vertical Section. Enjoy.
August 25, 2011
Welcome to a new school year full of caving adventures!
If you are looking for more information on WUSS and caving in general, please join us for our first meeting on Tuesday, August 30 in room 319 of the Kuss Science Center. We will be providing pizza and drinks for the first meeting so come hungry!
We also are planning to have our first vertical clinic for beginners during the following week's meeting. So on September 6 @ 6pm come join us and play on rope. More information will be provided during the first meeting. Hope to see you all there!!!
January 20, 2011
Winter Adventure Weekend at Carter Caves State Resort Park is only one week away! For those of you not attending, you should really change your mind! Trips are still available to register for, cost starts at only $25. Or you can just show up and hang out with us. WUSS has plenty of lodging available, just email us ahead of time. Hope to see you all in a week!
The club has had three survey trips to Ohio Caverns where we have surveyed hundreds of meters of passage and there is still more to go, check our calendar for dates if you are interested in going.
We are also still working on a new issue of Pholeos or two, so feel free to send anything you would like to submit to our editor.
December 11, 2010
We are currently putting together another issue of Pholeos, if you have anything to submit (including articles, photos, poetry, research, jokes, pretty much anything) please send an email to the editor at {wusscavers@gmail.com}.
We have a number of upcoming trips after winter break, keep checking our calendar to stay up to date. These dates include a survey trip to Ohio Caverns and the 2nd annual Winter Adventure Weekend at Carter Caves State Resort Park in Kentucky.
We have updated our survey page with current projects.
We are also in the process of adding new photos to our Photos Page, check back often for updates.
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. :(
