Just a follow-up.
We had a great class (even though I had to skip out for about 5 hours to join my grandfather and family on a PT boat ride..).
The weather turned out to be far nicer than predicted so it was drier than I feared it might be.
We had I believe 22 students in the class, a good mix of cavers and agency folks.
The "practice" (not really a mock) was in Schoharie Cave (or as we told them during the "call-out" "Cook Road Cave". They found us anyway.
I was an angel and we had two patients, one "hypothermic" that they were able to feed and beat and one with a "broken" tib/fib. They did a fantastic job of getting her into the Sked (I've seen students take forever to do that at some mocks and practices). We managed to get her about 2/3rds out of the cave before the instructors called it due to time. I want to emphasize though that the students did great and managed to move our patient through the hardest part of the cave in what I think was great time. And in a real rescue, we'd have had a 2nd team in there at that point to relieve them anyway. So all in all it was a success.
We also tested a new field telephone that we may adapt as part of our cache, lighter than the TA-312s we currently use. That's a huge plus.