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Ice Caves


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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>

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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.

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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.

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