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| Fort Stanton Cave entrance, NM | An undamaged section in the Crystal Crawl (selenite needles) | Perusing the maps in the lunchroom | Corey in his first NM cave | A little plant trying to grow in the dark... in the middle of a path. |
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| Cave velvet on the ceiling | Cave velvet on the floor | On the flowstone | Cave velvet everywhere, really | |
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| Black Velvet, if you please | A drip spot in the floor | Gypsum flower | Gypsum crystals on the breakdown | |
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| More flowers | Grapes? | Robert and Roger | More black velvet | |
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| flowstone with a little bacon | Helectite Hall of Ft. Stanton cave | The stalactites were pretty big in there | The helectites not quite as noticeable | More velvet and other features |
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| I have no idea what this is called | Close up of the velvet | We returned up several crawls and got out of the cave about 6 hours after we began | Exiting Ft. Stanton Cave | |
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| Sunday Corey and I left Sandia Grotto and headed toward Carlsbad to check it out... stopping in Roswell on the way. | The entrance was full of swallows and smells like it, too | Looking down from the entrance (a big series of switchbacks) | Back toward the entrance | |
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| Column in a pool | Flowstone | Carlsbad actually had fantastic, natural looking lighting... my camera took some serious liberties here. | Tons of coral in the big room | Great rimstone pools all over the floor |
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| One of the old ladders... anyone want to try it? | Outside the caverns, in a wash, there are some old shelter caves | |||
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| Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas - a Lithododendron fossil | Part of one of several once-used shelter caves | Rock House Cave | ||
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| Turtle Rocks | A cave in Tennessee... unfortunately the dinky, faded sign on the right says it's closed. | A little surprise on the way to Kentucky | ||
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| How could we not stop for something so ridiculous? | Just two blocks away, by the liquor store | Since it was on the way, we stopped at Mammoth Cave for a quick tour | Big, but the tour was lame | Saltpeter workings in Mammoth |
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| Waterfall by the entrance | One of several other entrances to Mammoth Cave | Headed to Windy Mouth in WV | It was about here that I realized I left my helmet in the car and Corey ran back to get it, since I'd have taken forever | Helectites and needles covered a good portion of the ceiling and walls in one area |
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| Corey lit up a passage for the camera | ||||
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| Then ran up it for better light | Some of the few decorations we came across in Windy Mouth. And here the vacation ends. | |||