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  Intercom, Volume 37, No. 4, July-August 2001

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Letters -- Shiver Dome and More of the Same -- Buffalo Ridge Cave -- Small Cave Project -- Out of the Park -- Hunt's Cave Resurvey -- Monument Passage -- Westward Ho! -- NSS Convention -- Unhinged in Winneshiek County -- Iowa Grotto Picnic 2001 -- Beautiful Wonder Cave -- 2001 Iowa Grotto Picnic -- CWC August -- Floyd Cave Map -- Buffalo Ridge Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 37, No. 3, May-June 2001

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Three Lazy Bums -- Step One at Backbone State Park -- lMAX Movie -- Mammoth Cave Restoration Weekend -- No More -- Talking Crack -- Restoration Documentation -- Nasal Assault -- Wagner Mound -- Sunday Supervisory Work -- Rocky Star Cave Map -- No Mas Pit Map -- Millennium Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 29, No. 6, November-December 1993

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Block & Tackle Survey -- A Coldwater Update -- A Little Progress in Clayton County -- A Lot of Sinkholes and a Few Pits -- Is This a Cave or a Raccoon Hotel? -- Nice Lead Dome Earns Its Name -- Downstream to Guardian Fangs Dig -- St. Olaf Spring -- Photo Album -- St. Olaf Spring Cave Map -- Jones Cave Map -- Block & Tackle Cave Map -- Feldt Property Cave #1 & #2 Map -- Cemetery Valley Cave & Annex Map

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  Intercom, Volume 29, No. 5, September-October 1993

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- West Union Sinkholes -- Ned and Friends Take a Trip -- Hike In Brush Creek Canyon -- A New Hole Opens Up -- Trail Cave Map -- Pink Elephant Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 29, No. 4, July-August 1993

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Obituary -- An Old Dig Gets a New Dig -- Gouldsburg Survey III, The Finale -- Pre-Picnic Caving -- Caving in the Rain -- Checking the Flow -- Caving and the Iowa Grotto Picnic -- Various Rambling Schmuecker's Trip Reports Nobody Else Would Write -- Summer Picnic Sunday -- Caving in Crystal Lake Cave -- Fractured Photos -- Photo Album -- Heath Cave Map -- Spiral Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 29, No. 3, May-June 1993

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Iowa Cave Names (an editorial... sort of) -- Where Is This Cave? -- Another Old Postcard -- A Real Editorial -- Lead Checking With Lester -- Arkansas Bound -- More Digging at Coon Condo Cave -- Vacation Visit to Wind Cave -- Photo Album -- Twine Cave Map -- Ravine Shelter Map -- Squirrel Cave Map -- North Fork Cave and Annex Maps -- English Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 29, No. 2, March-April 1993

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Common Drugs Help Tame Hypothermia -- Buck Creek Cave Survey -- The Guardian's Gullet -- A Midwinter Night's Dream -- An Unbelievable Bear of a Cave Trip -- The 505 Passage -- A West Virginia Visit -- Jackson County Caving -- Runoff Check I -- Runoff Check II -- Gouldsburg Survey II, the Sequel -- Buck Creek Raccoons Find New Caves -- Cave File Work and Deathbridge Mall -- Buck Creek Cave Map -- Buck Creek Indian Cave Map -- Northeast Lockey Drybone Mine Map -- Bevan's Cave Map -- Finley's Landing Cave Map -- Cow Pie Cave Map -- Horsethief Cave Map -- Burr Cave Map -- Chipmunk Cave Map -- Pest Cave Map -- Cuervo Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 29, No. 1, January-February 1993

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- The Longest Cave In Iowa -- The Kodak Photo CD Alternative to 35MM Prints -- Kodak Photo CD Costs -- Dry Run -- Christmas Day Revisited -- More Missouri -- Return to San Salvador -- Coldwater Photo Trip, Part 12 -- Riding the Loop -- Bat Check -- Smoking Ridge -- Surveying in Block and Tackle Cave -- Recon in Hoot Dome -- Photo Album -- New Galena Mine "A" Map -- Yellow River Cave Map -- Hardscrabble Cave Map -- Partition Cave -- Ice Cave, Dubuque County -- Kennedy's Cave -- W.R.A. Cave Map -- Boneyard Pit Map -- Dirty Hand Map -- Fault Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 28, No. 6, November-December 1992

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Iowa Grotto Cave File -- Quarter Sections -- Another Peek -- De-Fieted -- Wonder Cave Restoration III & IV -- Five for Five -- Spiraling In -- Maze Cave Photo Album -- Photos From the Wayback Machine -- Smoking Ridge Cave Map -- Dry Cave and Dunning Spring Maps -- New Galena Mine "B" Map -- New Galena Mine "C" Map -- Iowa Grotto Cave File submission form sheet

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  Intercom, Volume 28, No. 5, September-October 1992

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Three Dimensional Cave Photography -- Crashing Through the Brush -- Survey of Spiral Cave Begun -- Recent Spiral Notes -- Wonder Cave Restoration -- MVOR Etc. -- Curse of the Red Dust: Part 6 -- A Visit to Misery (Missouri) -- Cave Rescue Training -- Some Odds and Ends -- Jackson County Caving -- Buck Creek Cave Trip -- Pleasantly Surprised -- Photos -- Silica Mine Map -- Elephant Den Map -- Odessa Mama Cave Map -- Stafford's Sandstone Cave Map -- Wet Reebok Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 28, No. 4, July-August 1992

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- The Versatile Vertical System -- The Opening of Spiral -- Carlsbad Restoration -- The Illinois State Flower -- Camp's Gulf Cave -- Wondering Through the Rubble -- Taking it Easy -- N.S.S. Convention 1992 -- N.S.S. Convention Trip Report -- The Bad With the Good -- Half a Trip -- Grotto Picnic '92 -- Survey Fun -- Short, Busy Weekend -- Sullivan's Cave Map -- Number Two Cave Map -- Coral Cave Map -- Skull Cave Map -- Cliff Cave Map -- Spider Cave Map -- ltsa Cave Map -- Gumdinger Cave Map -- Eldorado Cave Map -- Billboard Cave #3

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  Intercom, Volume 28, No. 3, May-June 1992

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Letters -- Spring MVOR -- Exchange-- Intrepid, Not -- Odessa Mama Cave-- Delaware County Park Hopping-- Around and Around Guttenburg-- Humboldt County -- Indiana Caving-- In a Slump-- Fitton to be Tied -- Caving Alone in Jackson County-- Cave -- Downer Sink -- The Cave Map II -- Cave Map Symbols-- Photo Album -- Surprise Cave-- NettIe Cave -- Fossil Rock Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 28, No. 2, March-April 1992

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Intercom Material Deadline Changed -- IG Cavers Fold, Cave Too Difficult -- Good Leads Close to Horne -- Caving in the Holely Land -- Rumors and Ridgewalking -- Out and About -- In Search of, the Maze Continues -- A Cold Dip on a Short Trip -- It Was a Good Friday and a Fine Saturday -- Since I'm In Decorah Anyway -- Dig Those Leads -- Spider Cave -- Coral Cave -- Skull Cave -- Cliff Cave -- Pine Valley Cave -- Climb High Shelter -- Blue Cave -- Zoo Cave #1 -- Zoo Cave #2 -- Indian Cave-- Windmill Cave-- Penny Cave -- Chimney Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 28, No. 1, January-February 1992

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- A Challenge For the Speleo-Handicapped -- The Cave Map -- Editorial Reply -- Swimming the Moat and Visiting the Pallus -- Friday the 13th Strikes Again? -- Just Like Heaven -- Caves in a County Named Floyd -- Surveying in the Rain -- A Miniature Cascade Passage -- Clayton County Crevices -- Communication Breakdown and Beyond -- Fun in the Snow -- Which Way to the Cave -- Return to Neverending Dig -- Looking For Bugs -- Right Foot II -- We Went, We Dug, We Left -- Winter Caving(?) in Clayton County -- Mystery Cave Bat Count -- The Unseen End of Maze Cave -- Hypothermia Foiled by the Experts -- Caving in Johnson County -- Bogus Cave-- Blue Boy Cav e-- Walking Stick Cave -- Falling Rock Cave -- Breakdown Cave -- Shadow Cave -- Bone Dry Cave -- The Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 27, No. 6, November-December 1991

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Letters to the Editor -- Reply: By the Editor -- Hypothermia Prevention Study -- But It's November 2 -- Mammoth Cave C.R.F. Thanksgiving Field Trip -- Caving in Jackson County -- The End of a Project -- Number Thirty -- Preston's "Mine -- Christmas at Grandma's -- Bluff Caving -- The Right Foot -- Photo Album -- Preston's Mine -- Backfill Banzai Cave -- Open Cut Cave -- Titmnen's Cave -- Ewing Diggings Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 27, No. 5, September-October 1991

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Letters -- Articles:-- Coldwater Air Flow Proposed Study-- The Longest Caves-- Speculation: Iowa Caves, The Cosmic Connection -- Maze Cave Earns Its Name -- Caving in Highlandville-- The Maze Continues.-- A Quick Trip to Mossy Glen -- Surveying On Sunday -- Cool Weather, Long Walks, and Great Caves-- Photo Album -- Thermal Cave -- Pine Cave -- Cross Cave and Annex -- Highlandville Cave #2 -- Highlandville Cave #4 -- Highlandville Cave #3-- Highlandville Cave #5-- Highlandville Cave #6 -- Highlandville Cave #7-- Highlandville Cave #8 -- Becker Quarry Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 27, No. 4, July-August 1991

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Letters --The Late Report -- (More of) The Late Report, Other Odds & Ends -- An Oinker of a Lead -- A Wallow-Up to the March Trip -- The Recker Waterfall Survey -- Becker Quarry Cave Survey Completed -- Wiedenman's: After the Flood -- 1991 Chillagoe Caves Expedition -- July Coldwater Trip -- A Beginner's Night Out -- Third Time's A Charm -- 1991 Iowa Grotto Summer Picnic -- Saturday -- Some Caving At The Grotto Picnic -- More Stuff At The Picnic -- 1991 Summer Picnic -- Sunday -- Lead Checking In North Buena Vista -- A Comfortable Coldwater Side Passage? -- Beyond the Spout in the JFI Passage -- Collecting Weed Seeds -- Willard's Well -- The Sunday After -- INTERCOM Available Back Issues -- How Much Water Would a Crawlway Take, If a Crawlway Would Take Water -- (Late) Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Picnic Pit -- Forgotten Hole -- Rising Hope Cave -- Theisen Cave -- Fern Cave-- Millipede Cave -- Train Cave -- Riverview Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 27, No. 3, May-June 1991

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Florida Cave Diving Trip -- Coldwater Cramps -- Mississippi Hat Trick -- Indian Bluff Cave -- While In Kentucky -- More Cave Than We Thought -- One More Checked Off the List -- Dubuque County Mock Cave Rescue -- Becker Quarry Cave Survey -- Looped Out -- Wanda Walks Way Into Coldwater and Gets a Washboard -- Karst Field Studies -- The Iowa Grotto -- Map and Sections of the East Lockey Drybone Mine -- Map and Sections of the West Lockey Drybone Mine -- Map and Sections of the West Lockey Drybone Mine -- Map and Sections of the Royce & Frost Mine (Billboard Cave) -- Cleveland Circle -- Wilson Cave -- Jesse James Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 27, No. 2, March-April 1991

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Desperately Needed -- Coldwater Cave: Stevens Recorder -- A Few Loose Ends -- BYOB -- Low Impact Missouri Caving -- One Last Stop -- NCRC Rescue Practice Weekend -- Cave Pressure Measurement Project -- Spring MVOR -- Coldwater in Texas -- Photos -- Mumble Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 27, No. 1, January-February 1991

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Wild Well -- Several Pits Checked, One Plumbed -- Cold Caving -- Virgin Cow -- Wild Well -- Sunday in Dubuque -- Giant Builders: No Job Too Small -- Tromping Through the Snow -- Galena Lead Hines -- January Tour Trip -- Digging and Surveying: Down Under -- Too Nice to be Underground -- Becker Quarry Survey Again -- Giant Builders II: New Depths -- Balaclava Boys -- Becker Quarry Cave Survey Trip -- A Solo Journey Through Time -- Mary Bankes on Big Spring -- Photo Album -- Heartbreak Cave Map

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  Intercom, Volume 26, No. 6, November-December 1990

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Survey for Credit -- How Hany Are There In Dubuque Anyways? -- Coldwater Surface Work -- Coldwater Cave Trip. and Related Meanderings -- Critter Pass and the Red Dig -- A Fine Digging Trip -- It Has Begun -- Dubuque Caving -- Bogus Dude! -- The Old Man and the Rookie -- Taking Time for Pyramid Passage -- Florida Bound -- A Cold Survey -- He Had To Look -- St. Paul Sand Caves-- How I Spent My New Years -- Photo Album -- Middle Road Cave -- First Cave -- Leytem's Cave -- Numerous Cave -- Backbone Cave -- Rocky Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 26, No. 5, September-October 1990

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Fitness: Keeping Up in the Nineties -- Opportunity? -- Iowa Grotto Summer Picnic -- The Changing Face of Floyd County Caving -- My First Caving Experiences -- Virgin Pig -- Odd -- Good Showing -- Wild Well Project -- Photo Album -- Big Bat Cave -- Cactus Crevice -- Jordan Creek Cave -- Pinnacle Canyon Cave -- Billboard Cave #2 -- Crystal Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 26, No. 4, July-August 1990

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Letters -- Mudslide Pit -- Carlsbad Restoration -- Karst Field Studies: Mammoth Cave -- The Fiet Cave Survey -- Finally -- Rightly Surmised -- Another Dr. Knutson Lead -- First Shot -- Tying the First Loose End -- Oops -- Three Men and a Beaver -- Vacation -- Delaware Crevices -- The Rest of the Picnic Caving -- Gleason Crevice -- Rust Remover and Silk -- If It Were In Iowa -- Other Stuff in Missouri -- Back to Flash Passage -- A Very Wet Weekend -- Leads and Loafing -- Mudslide Pit -- Evac Cave -- Kuhse's Crevice -- Sand Cave

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  Intercom, Volume 26, No. 3, May-June 1990

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Letters -- Some of the Finer (and Cruder) Points of Hetsuit Purchase/Use/ Maintenance -- Deutschen Hohlen -- Nebelhohle, Map -- One I Forgot -- Back to Theisen Cave -- Backbone Cave -- Meanwhile, Back at Coldwater Cave -- Meanwhile, Back at Dutton's Cave -- Flashing in the Upstream Loop -- Beginner Survey Trip -- Hatfield's Cave, Map -- Still a Loose End -- Where the Lead Meets the Limestone -- Solo Survey -- Big Mouth Cave, Map -- Carlsbad Caverns CRF/NSS/NPS Restoration Field Trip -- Arkansas Adventure -- Diving for Cave -- Suggestions for Avoiding Snafus in Meeting for Projects

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  Intercom, Volume 26, No. 2, March-April 1990

  Lowell Burkhead

  Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Letters -- Editorial -- Basic Caver Etiquette -- Exploration Beyond Tuna Sea -- Coldwater Cave (upstream section) map -- Atrazine Alley -- Coldwater Cave Dedicated National Natural Landmark -- All In March -- A Question of Digology -- Click, Click, Click -- Thiesen Cave and Sinks -- Caving The Buck Creek Area -- Farther Upstream -- Beyond Grappling Falls and the Agony of the Feet -- On a Coldwater Weekend -- Postville Ice Cave & Lead-Check -- Tourist's Delight Cave, map