Today we have a 6 hour trip ahead of us to a campground close to Craters of the Moon. Mike had seen something on this and thought that it would be kind of interesting. As I was looking at the map I noticed that there was a Shoshone Ice Cave that I thought was interesting so we are going to try to do both.
We found a KOA that was within 20 miles of the Craters of the Moon. That works for us. So we decided that we would go into the park to the visitors center and get some information. Well information we got and we then went on a 7 mile loop to see what we would like to do tomorrow. We settled on a hike to actually see a crater and another hike to a lava tunnel and some caves. We are going to start early before the temperature gets up there. After that we will go to the cave where the temperature will be in the 30's.
The trip around wasn't anything of what we had imagined. We saw lots of lava in all shapes, sizes and formation. Different shapes of trees and some flowers that grow in this environment. This lava field was active as early as 2000 years ago. There is a connection to Yellowstone being that the same hot spots that give Yellowstone it's geysers and hot springs also gave this area the lava.
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| The road before us |
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| Looks like a castle made out of hay |
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| A pair of hawk's |
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| Swainson's Hawk we think |
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| and the road just keeps on going |
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| Limber pines |
VARIOUS PICTURES OF THE LAVA ROCKS
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| Dwarf Buckwheat |
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| A field of dwarf buckwheat |
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| We are staying in Arco, Idaho and this was just an interesting fact |
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| Nice tradition |
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