Spelunking?

Does it look like I’ve been on a visit to the southwest?

Believe it or not, these are the rest of my Ice Cave photos.

Dennis and I have talked about walking out to them for a couple of years now. It just seems that each time we decided to go, we found a reason (it’s too cold, or it’s so far, or I just wanna stay in the warm house. . .) not to.

So one morning, Dennis woke up at some ungodly hour, like 4 am and when he finally tired of tiptoeing around the house he splashed water on my face and pulled me out of the warm covers to go trudging a mile across a frozen lake in 8 degree weather.

The sun was shining brightly and with the promise of warmer days arriving soon, I knew this was one of the last chances to go this year, so I didn’t complain at all too much.

My legs got a great workout, and all the walking did warm me up, and beauty surrounded me!

I can’t say that I regretted one minute of it.

To get in this cave I had to sit down and scoot, but I think it was worth it.

That’s the opening I came through.

SO worth it!

I was sitting at the very back of the cave.

It felt so secluded and quiet that I think I could have napped there. But my butt started freezing, sitting on a frozen lake will do that.

Next year, they will all be different.

Looking up.

Massive sheet of ice. Easy to forget the rest of the world exists.

I did manage to find some dainty little ice crystals, too bad I didn’t have the macro lens with me.

Frozen waterfall.

And the best part is, you can touch it all you want.

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