Sisco Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 You might have seen the ice caves of Lake Superior on National TV lately. They are not far from where I live. They form every year, but only 1 in 15 years has safe enough ice to walk out an see them. Attached are a couple of pictures I took the other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Bueatiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
392heminut Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Nice! I used to do a lot of spelunking back in the day, but never in an ice cave. All of my trips were into caves here in the southwest. There is an ice cave up around Grants NM that is open to tourists year round but I've never made it up there to see it. Thanks for posting the pics! <thumbsup> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Great pictures sisco, I've got a few Yupper pages on my FB, I try making it up there once twice a year they've posted some beautiful pictures too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 That is cool way cool ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) A couple more Edited February 18, 2014 by Sisco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNP Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Man nature is awesome! Very cool stuff! We don't really get anything quite like that in San Diego. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolndie7 Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Thats cool. All I can picture is a christmas story. "an icicle fell off the garge and broke my glasses" yeah yeah thats what I tell em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
392heminut Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Great pics Sisco! It's amazing how much those ice formations look like the limestone cave formations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane Armory Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Really cool pics ! Went to the Paradise Ice Cave on MT. Rainier is a teenager very cool, also a good hike to get there. The mammoth caves were awesome but no ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Glad you like em guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imschur Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 very cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) Last ice cave post. Here is NBC 's nightly news film clip on them. Had to cancel, link did not work. Edited February 19, 2014 by Sisco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planeflyer21 Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Really cool pics ! Went to the Paradise Ice Cave on MT. Rainier is a teenager very cool, also a good hike to get there. The mammoth caves were awesome but no ice. Been to the Mammoth caves myself. One thing is sure…environmentalists would raise a MAJOR stink about a setup like that these days! Pretty cool…gift shops, restaurants, snack bars, all inside underground. Try that at Kartchner Caverns and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
392heminut Posted February 19, 2014 Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 Jon, I don't think it's as much the environmentalists as it is the National Speleological Society. Cave preservation has become a big focus for them and rightfully so. A LOT of the caves in the Guadalupes (Carlsbad Caverns area) were stripped of formations by entrepreneurs back in the late 1800's/early 1900's and sold to tourists. I can show you two caves about an hour and a half from where I live and about two miles from each other that are totally different. Robinson Cave was discovered a lot earlier than Coffee Cave and is basically stripped of formations. Coffee was gated shortly after it was discovered and can be accessed by anyone who goes to the local US Forest Service office and fills out a form and gets the key. By contrast, it is still a beautiful cave with formations intact. I've been in Kartchner (and quite a few other commercial caves) and was amazed at the lengths they went to to keep that cave in it's natural state! The guys who found Kartchner kept it a secret for many years because they feared what would happen to it if the public found out about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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