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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #16a

Lava Beds National Monument 2, August 2008
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A new day after the bar and camping. The fire crews are still active, but the park is still open.
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Here the trail crosses the main collapsed trench on the way to the entrance of the Big Painted Cave.
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The walls do look as though painted green.
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At the bottom is a crazy shaft, perportedly to a huge ice chamber. I trust the other caves because they've been stable for thousands of years. This one, however, was hand picked open about a hundred years ago and is at the bottom of a boulder jumble. I'm not claustrophic, but just don't want to crawl down that one, even to see the ice chamber.
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Another big outdoor entrance, this time to Symbol Bridge.
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There are lots of Native American pictoglyphs down here.
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