Caves and Bridges

This is the ice cave near Mt. Adams.

This is Nick after he slipped on this insanely icy floor.  You can't see it but there was a sheet of ice all over the main entrance which happens to be the largest part of the cave.

More ice...

and more ice.

This is considered a natural land bridge.  You  can go over the top of it or under and there's a small room behind it.

We only had one dim flashlight and 3 people.  Luckily we were all wearing tennis shoes at least!  There was NOT a clear path through this thing, it was awesome!  Aviendha stuck around with us until we got to where it was getting pitch black then she wanted to go back up top.  Corbin didn't even want to go down the stairs to get into the cave.  After the kids gave up, Carisa stayed up and watched them so we could explore!

There was lots of juggling the flashlight.  All of my pictures were done holding very still and only with flash!

Tekara didn't want me to put these pictures in because her pants crept a little low so instead of not posting them I censored for you :D

Here's a place we had to squeeze through, after you squeeze through it drops down several feet.

After climbing down you have to crouch real low to get out because the ceiling is low.  This is the other end of the cave!

These are Nick's knees after our expedition!

After that we visited the natural land bridges.  These were pretty amazing, there's trees growing right out of the sides of many of them.  There were 3 or 4 bridges in a row!

There were also a ton of huge huckleberries!  YUMMMMM!  I'm sad we didn't have any thing to put some in...

This is the view of Mt. Adams coming from the ice cave and land bridges.

This is the full view as we drove back to Carisa and Tim's place.