Schedule of Events
**SUBJECT TO CHANGE**
Water and soda will be provided to registered participants on both Friday and Saturday evenings. No individual campfires will be permitted in the camping areas. There will be a bonfire centrally located in the event area for all to enjoy. Alcoholic beverages are BYOB. Please be discreet when drinking and remember the legal drinking age is 21.
Water and soda will be provided to registered participants on both Friday and Saturday evenings. No individual campfires will be permitted in the camping areas. There will be a bonfire centrally located in the event area for all to enjoy. Alcoholic beverages are BYOB. Please be discreet when drinking and remember the legal drinking age is 21.
Friday
- Check in and on-site registration opens at Noon at the upper pavilion by the restrooms.
- Cave trip sign-ups for Saturday’s organized (led) cave trips will take place Friday evening at the Bingo Hall around 9:30pm.
- Bonfire in the Grove
Saturday
- Doughnuts & coffee will be provided at the registration area starting at 8:30am.
- If you are going on an unguided tour, please sign out at the registration area and include your destination, names of the people in your group, license plate number of all vehicles and expected return time.
- Saturday afternoon non-caving activities
- Enjoy Snyder County and the surrounding areas
Saturday Evening
- Dinner will begin at 6:30 so don’t be late! The Saturday evening meal will consist of bbq chicken or a vegetarian choice of cabbage steak, sides, and dessert. All prepared by Airy Dale Farm Market of Beaver Springs and served in the Bean Soup Pavilion.
- @ 8:30PM Bert Ashbrooke will present on The Maziest Maze Cave in the World: Sarah Furnace Cave, Pennsylvania
- Sarah Furnace Cave in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, is longest known cave in the northeastern U.S. and densest dimensional maze cave known in the world. Over 9-1/2 miles of passages lie beneath a surface area of only about 6 acres. Passages form along several sets of parallel joints in the flat-lying Vanport Limestone. Intersections are spaced every 6 to 10 feet. Typical passages are 3 feet wide and 1 to 3 feet high. A vein of iron ore forms the passage ceilings. The ore was mined from the ceilings of some passages during the Civil War for the Sarah iron furnace. Stoopwalking is possible in some of the mined passages. Surveying is difficult because of the small passages, the dense maze, and seasonal flooding in parts of the cave. The first attempt to map the cave was in 1956, but that and all subsequent attempts failed. The current survey, begun in 2019 by “Team Sarah” of the Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy, has completely explored all but a few remaining leads. The extent of the limestone and calculations of the amount of iron ore consumed by the iron furnace both indicate that double the amount of cave may exist beyond a series of ceiling collapses at the southern perimeter of the survey.
- Sarah Furnace Cave in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, is longest known cave in the northeastern U.S. and densest dimensional maze cave known in the world. Over 9-1/2 miles of passages lie beneath a surface area of only about 6 acres. Passages form along several sets of parallel joints in the flat-lying Vanport Limestone. Intersections are spaced every 6 to 10 feet. Typical passages are 3 feet wide and 1 to 3 feet high. A vein of iron ore forms the passage ceilings. The ore was mined from the ceilings of some passages during the Civil War for the Sarah iron furnace. Stoopwalking is possible in some of the mined passages. Surveying is difficult because of the small passages, the dense maze, and seasonal flooding in parts of the cave. The first attempt to map the cave was in 1956, but that and all subsequent attempts failed. The current survey, begun in 2019 by “Team Sarah” of the Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy, has completely explored all but a few remaining leads. The extent of the limestone and calculations of the amount of iron ore consumed by the iron furnace both indicate that double the amount of cave may exist beyond a series of ceiling collapses at the southern perimeter of the survey.
- Enjoy the rest of the night with friends and a bonfire
Sunday
- PCC Breakfast is served starting around 7:30am
- The PCC meeting will take place around 9:30am in the pavilion of the registration area.
- 2024 Spring MAR closes up at 12pm
- Enjoy Snyder County and the surrounding areas. Have a safe ride home and see you at the next MAR field meet!