Dwight Kempf has joined the board of the Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy in 2024 for a three-year term.
Dwight is a long time vertical caver who started learning vertical techniques via increasingly difficult GeoCaching adventures. He has degrees in engineering from Penn State University and finance from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently on the Board of the Greater Allentown Grotto as Secretary. He is also a member of Nittany and Pittsburgh Grottos, as well as the NSS. Dwight became involved with MAKC through his five years of surveying on Team Sarah, at the Barbara Schomer Preserve. After over 70 trips, he has learned to perform 8 point turns in tight intersections in the cave, to really dislike Suunto instruments, and to really love Disto-X devices. He first cave was Wind Cave in Pequea, PA, a tectonic cave he visited during his Boy Scout activities five decades ago. His favorite vertical caves are Sótano de las Golondrinas in Mexico, and Valhalla, in Alabama. Dwight enjoys cave-photography-to-tell-a-story, which he practiced during the Team Sarah days by melding his pictures into stories after each trip on the MAKC FaceBook page. His favorite underground time is caving with his daughter, Caitlin, a sketcher on Team Sarah.