The other day at work the teacher in charge of experientials,
which are what the girls do on Fridays instead of school to give them
experience in what they learned about that week, asked me if I would do an
experiential with the girls where hiking was involved. So today I went to
explore the cave that she wants the girls to go to. It was kinda cool. I didn’t
know that our red rock mountain had lava on the top of it. The cave that we
went to is called Mammoth cave, they are lava tubes I guess. I’m not really
sure exactly what they are, I guess that’s what our lessons will be on the week
before this activity and I’ll get to learn all about them. I convinced a friend
to go with me because well yeah no hiking alone.
The blog I read about the tubes said ‘I had knee pads
they were helpful’, when it should have read you NEED knee pads if you like
your knees at all. They were really cool and I’m glad I went before taking the girls
up there. I there are four tubes to explore but two of them you have to crawl
the whole time, we only did one of these, and the other two you can pretty much
walk through. I’m excited to come back with girls who aren’t as adventurous as
me and Steve and see how they do, there was a really big room a ways in to the big
main cave and we turned off all our lights for complete darkness. I’m excited
to do this with the girls.
I was having slight camera difficulties sorry some of them are blurry.
The main cave
The white on the top is ice
Steve looking at the ice on the ceiling
Stalagmites of ice
More ice on the top of the cave
I was trying really hard to not blink.
I guess I succeeded
Getting out of the cave
This is the exit to the third tube we did. You could
walk all the way until the very end
Some panoramas just for fun, the first is a
180* view and the second is a 360* view
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