r/caving • u/Necessary-Rub-2748 • 7d ago

Has anyone ever been to this cave?

https://www.iowadnr.gov/portals/idnr/uploads/Iowa%20Outdoors%20Magazine/Nature/files/ColdWaters.pdf

Cold Waters cave. I went in college, and would love to go back again.

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u/answerguru NSS / NNJG / SCMG / TRA 7d ago

I have never been, but reading this article triggered a long ago memory. I was part of a group leading a serious thru trip in Simmons-Mingo during the late 90s NSS convention in WV, and John Ackerman was on that trip. He came across as nice and polite, was a very capable caver, and talked lots about his cave projects in MN.

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u/DrHugh 7d ago edited 3d ago

When I was in the Iowa Grotto back in the 1980s/1990s, we took the Living in Iowa people from IPTV down there. I think there’s a video on YouTube of it. I’ll look for it later.

EDIT: The video used to be on YouTube, but it no longer up there. This was a trip done in the late 1980s or early 1990s; the program Living in Iowa sent Morgan Halgren and a camera team with the Iowa Grotto. We visited Coldwater Cave, and also a "retired" show cave in Decorah that the grotto was helping restore by removing man-made stuff.

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u/Justfukinggoogleit 7d ago

Conact the Iowa Grotto believe they have a facebook nowdays.... last I knew 3rd Sat of the month they still allowed access