Selected
images from the 2002 NSS Convention
Camden,
ME
all images
© 2002, Barbara Anne am Ende
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Gossip heard at
the NSS Convention:
- Paul Stevens is
seeing another woman.
- The BOG held
their meeting in the hot tub and they didn't get their clothes
back until they agreed to approve caving for pay.
- Kevin Downey's
camera broke and he had to buy some pictures from a commerical
cave in another country in order to enter the photo salon this
year.
- Barbara likes
to do it with mirrors.
- Nancy is trying
to figure out who the father is.
- The NSS is
going bankrupt because it hired Arthur Anderson to do its
accounting.
- Dale Pate says
anyone, except scientists, can go into Lech anytime and anywhere.
- Peri Frantz is
planning to skip the next convention because it will be too hot!
- Lynne Fielding
gave Peter Jones a T-shirt that said "Our trees in California are
bigger than your caves in Maine".
- Matt Oliphant
ordered (and ate!) 5 lobsters at the Howdy Party.
At the opening ceremony, NSS
outgoing Prez, Mike Hood, Convention Chairman Peter Jones, and Clawd
look on.
Anemone Sea Cave, Acadia
National Park (Geology Field Trip)
Bar Harbor scenery
Bet White provides scale for
this sea stack now on the Bar Harbor "beach"
The geology field trip
visited a lake in Acadia to observe U-shaped glacial
valleys
Alejandro Felix Romero
Emparador from Sancti Spiritus, Cuba here sitting atop the snowbowl
near Camden.
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