The Northern Rocky Mountain Grotto is run by a volunteer Executive Committee of NSS members. Here's who we are and how we got hooked on caves.
Carl Froslie has been caving for 11 years and has been a member of the Northern Rocky Mountain Grotto for 10 years. He has been part of many caving expeditions across the US, including helping continue exploration of the deepest cave in the United States in 2019. He is well versed in cave survey and rigging to find and explore previously unknown caves.
I was born and raised in Denver, CO, and moved up to Bozeman, MT for college in 2011. I'm currently in the Laser and Photonics Technician Program at Montana State University and will also be working on my mechanical engineering degree. I began caving in 2015 visiting a friend back in West Virginia and have since gone caving in a few states. Most of my caving involves photography, but I enjoy other kinds of trips as well. I'm also very involved in Yellowstone National Park with researching the geysers there and volunteering under interpretation at the Old Faithful Visitor Center.
In August of 2009, a friend and I decided to hike to the top of Avalanche Peak in Yellowstone National Park. On our way up, a blizzard hit (don't you just love the Rockies?) and we turned back. Feeling unfulfilled, we headed back to Billings and saw an old, barely legible sign for Big Ice Cave 20 miles away. Two and a half hours later we arrived at Big Ice Cave and I was immediately hooked. I spent the next year trying to find cave locations with little success. Finally, in January 2011 I decided to join the NRMG and haven't looked back. As soon as I met other cavers, I knew they were my kind of nerds and I became more and more involved with the grotto. I was elected Secretary in 2013 and Chairman in 2015. I look forward to growing and strengthening the Montana caving community. Let me know what I can do to help get YOU underground.
In 1962, as a 19-year-old college student, I read Adventure is Underground (subtitled "The story of great caves of the West and the men who explore them"). Forget electronics and engineering — my life was changed (NSS #6675). After a master's degree (signed by Ronald Reagan) with a thesis on "Mortuary Caves of the Mother Lode Region of California," I got a researcher assistant position at the University of Alberta and spent a couple of summers looking for evidence of early man in caves of the Canadian Rockies. A year after that I found a few caves in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. I spent a few years doing archaeology in California, Texas, and Alabama before getting a real job (at 38) as a computer programmer. I retired as a systems analyst from the University of Alabama in Birmingham Hospital in 2005, and two weeks later was in Hamilton, Montana.
My wife Megan, our son and I live near Forsyth, MT. We're both avid backpackers and love to be outdoors!
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