Yesterday's snapshots and my field trip

This is Emma's 1/2 of the BEST FRIENDS shirt, the other 1/2 is on it's way to Maitea in Africa.

MAN, Halloween OREOs are good!
Yesterday my school went on a field trip to the ice caves, I was glad to go since I've lived here for ten years now and never been. How many times have I driven past them and never stopped? Countless. It was a fun and educational day! The ice caves are North of Shoshone. The caves are a lava tube that is a natural wonder where ice forms year-round.

The pictures aren't the best, but you can see that there is ice covering the floor of the cave. During the summer, there is about 4 inches of water that cover the ice. This is due to water dripping in through the cave roof, or ground about the cave. It is the mountain run-off from the previous winter's snowfall. In the winter, the water freezes solid, there have been many ice-skating parties in the caves. The caves were destroyed by the government and in the 60's a man rebuilt the rockwalls so that the natural wonder would resume. Back in the days, near by towns would come to the caves to get ice for their saloons.

There was a narrow, wobbly boardwalk that we ventured through the caves on.
The caves stay at a cool 30 degrees year round.

The man on top is a replica of the peoples who lived in the area long, long ago.

These pictures are of a caved-in lava tube.

This was taken looking down into the cave entrance. We had already traveled down many steep stairs to get to this point. We headed down more stairs to the narow cave entrance.

If you live near by and haven't been, I recomment it.