HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE LADIES OF THE UNDERGROUND!

This has been a big year for the Ladies of the underground.
1. In September 2013 our 3rd annual event, the All-Girl's-Cave-Trip, had twice as many attendees and even wonderful performers and trip leaders. We began the guacamole contest and silly awards too!
2. In August 2013 our Facebook page boomed from 20 likes to what it is today at 365 participants; reaching an audience of over 1,200!
3. Late summer 2013 the Silver Sage Grotto offered to host the 2014 event with full production which includes a guidebook and guest speakers. This event will occur the weekend of Aug. 1, 2014 and it will knock your socks off!
4. This year our logo and publication "Extraordinary Women Cavers" originated and became in full demand. We also created our first t-shirt that is so well liked that people still send orders through Facebook today. Even famous base guitarist for LA Guns, Scott Griffin, posed in the design!
5. This year we welcomed Khalvin Cook as our Vice Chairperson who has contributed many long hours to the benefit of cave conservation, education, and exploration as well as women's leadership in caving. Thank you Khalvin!
6. This month we are welcoming several reporters who will become our official first officers of the organization! Stay tuned to find out who these amazing people are.

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QUOTE: Marie M. Daly

"Courage is like — it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging." Marie M. Daly (1921–2003), Biochemist & the first African American woman in the US to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. #ScienceWomen #WLeadership #ewls

800 Facebook Likes!

Yippee! EWLS fans are awesome! Thank you all so much for sharing and liking our FB page. Since last February when we announced 700 likes, we have gained a blog and our annual event is ramping up for some major festivities. Please check out our Extraordinary Women Cavers (EWC's) who will be featured in this year's publication and sign up so that you can get in on these limited caving trips to gated and protected caves in the Magic Valley area of Idaho! Have a great day everyone and thank you for supporting women cavers! LINKS Webpage: www.ewls.org EWC's: www.ewls.org/past-editions.html Annual Event: www.ewls.org/all-grrs-cave-trip.html Annual Event FB page: www.facebook.com/events/127091664128055

Top 10 Women in Cave Lore

Check out these interesting stories of women and caves in lore from all over the world. For more great stories, check out our Pinterest page ! #ewls #womencavers #speleology Black Annis Stories of Black Annis, also referred to as Cat Anna and Black Agnes, is an old blue-faced woman with one eye who has scared children for hundreds of years as the bogeywoman of Leicester. She is believed to occupy a cave located on the face of Dane Hills. Legend states that she used her cave to hide from the sun, which is believed could turn her to stone. Her cave led to a tunnel that ran all the way to Leicester Castle where she is alleged to linger in the form of a ghost. In the woods she preys on children and brings them back at her cave to drink their blood and eat their flesh. Then, she hangs their skins to dry on the branches of the oak tree outside the cave entrance until she could sew the dried skins together to use as clothes and decorate the interior of her cave. 1 2 ...

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