Dave and Nina Smith Family

Dave and Nina Smith Family

Sunday, August 18, 2013

 I saw a sign as we were driving around about for an Ice Cave and so I looked it up online and figured out where it was.  We headed out towards the cave and had to travel down a really fun, bumpy dirt road to find the "cave".  Grandpa Dick made the drive with us and we found the cave after a 40 minute drive to no where. 
 The ice cave is more of a hole of rocks from outside and when you go inside it, you discover that the water has made a cave back behind the hole.  You have to crawl through a tiny opening to get into the "cave" part of the place.  And yes, there is ice.  Ice on the ground and dripping water everywhere.
 We found some places that had huge icicles that you could climb on.  Of course it was very dark and all we had was a cell phone light, so it was a slippery skating time getting around in there.
 It was a pretty neat natural phenomena that there was ice in the cave in the 90+ degree weather, but we read on the sign that the "cave" is only accessible in July and August because the ice doesn't melt until then.  I guess the whole thing is filled up with water/ice most of the year.
There was a group of rock climbers there too and it looked like a great place to do some climbing as it was a steep, long way down.  Luckily there was a trail around to the side that didn't require any climbing gear!

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