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We are both retired. Built a house near a beach in Mexico to spend the winter away from the cold and snow. Have another home in Washington on the Pend Oreille River where we spend the summer. We divide our time between the two homes.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Lava National Monument, CA

Looking Out
One of those small spaces
If you are a spelunker, theses caves would definitely be fun. The campground had, maybe 5 campers in two sections. It was very quiet, the stars glowed at   night. Driving around we felt we were on another  world, so quiet and the landscape looked like  something out of a si-fi movie. In any of the caves I was the only one there. A flashlight was a necessity and you could get a good one from the visitor center, which of coarse I didn't do, not realizing just how dark and lonely it would be in the caves. My flashlight was a small maglight which left many nook and crannies in the dark and not much glow on the uneven ground to walk on. I didn't make it very far into the caves, a little to dark for my taste. The caves were rated by easy, medium and difficult. The easy ones were enough for me. There were still many boulders to climb over and tunnels that were small. There were many places I looked down a hole and said, no I'm not climbing down there. One cave had ladders to climb down into levels below. Too dark for me! A buddy would have been nice. Tom was sitting in the car reading while I explored or hiked the trails to a cave.

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