The annual auction & party for the Sewanee Mountain Grotto held on Labor Day weekend. This is our 10th year and as usual there will be cave trips, float trips, an auction and a pot luck dinner. Event starts August 31st (however you can arrive early on the 30th) and goes thru September 3rd. The event is held at Maureen Handler's property aka Caver's Paradise. Address is 900 Old Sewanee Road, Sewanee, TN 37375.
We do not charge a registration fee but we do ask for a $5 fee per person for camping for the entire weekend, bring a dish for the potluck dinner on Sunday and donate something to the auction. Your auction donation should be caving or camping releated but does not have to be new. Be creative!
Friday night we will be showing a caving movie of some sort with POPCORN (last year we showed "Cave Women to the Rescue"). Saturday night is the annual Bat Float to Nickajack Cave and there will be music and a fire and Sunday is the Potluck and Auction. And of course we will have our Sewanee Mountain Mugs again this year for BEER, which includes brew from our guys with the TAG Brewery. For $10 you get beer all weekend!
All of the proceeds from our event go back into the caving community...!
We have also already received donations for our annual fundraising auction from: Inner Mountain Outfitters, Petzl, NSS Bookstore, Keson, Eagle's Nest Outfitters, Ruby Falls, Chattanooga Nature Center, TN Valley Railroad, Brunton Outdoor, CMI, Lodge and more...!
For more details you can view our event at http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/299738240109431/.