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2007 NSS Convention Guidebook
and impressive rimstone dams of any Indiana
cave (see page 439). The traversable length of
the tour is around 2,000 feet.
Teds Dig is located in a major valley south
of Cold Friday Hollow in the Harrison
Crawford State Forest. The entrance to the cave
is located across a dry stream bed from an old
logging road (foot trail), in a shallow sinkhole
with a small limestone outcrop. In the summer
of 1969, Ted Wilson found a blowing hole in
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Teds Dig
See the article “Indiana’s Show Caves” for a
broader description of Squire Boone Caverns.
By Dave Black
this sinkhole. He dug on the hole numerous
times, until, with the help of Tom Fritsch and
John Danovich in November 1981, the cave
was opened up.
The entrance dig is a body-size, downwardsloping
crawl. This section can have loose rocks
because of frost fracturing. In less than 100 feet