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| Four Windows - I didn't go in this one | The survey crew headed toward ElMa 16 | Sam taught myself and Kieffer how to survey | Tenzin learned from the Debbie | After completing a survey point, we all poked around for interesting features. |
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| ElMa 16 didn't go far but was so chilly we had to pop out again to warm up | There was still ice and snow from an October storm - and no this photo isn't upside down | View across the lava beds | The photographers, who went to Four Windows, joined up with us while we were waiting for the survey team to pop out of a tight crawl. | |
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| View of ElMa 10 | Tenzin getting ready to go into ElMa 18, where we were hunting rumored glowworms | 18 had a lot of post-volcanic formations, like these helectites | ||
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| It also had some crystalline 'snow' here and there | Victor and Tenzin in ElMa 18 | Fragile lava crust on the floor | Fuzzier 'snow' | |
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| 18 had lots of coralloids too... no fun at all to crawl over | ||||
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| Crevice in the floor of the tube | Cobwebs? Crystal? We're not sure | Lava stalagmite and coralloids - about a foot and a half high | The floor was littered with bat skeletons, though there was no sign of them living there | |
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| After an attempt to see the glowworm glowing and realizing we were all looking at each other's battery lights instead, most of us left and I wandered to ElMa 10, across a collapse | Looking out toward the group | The front of 10 has smaller formations than 18, though it's really the same tube | Sun's going down, time to head out before we get lost or eaten by cougars | |
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| Part of the Seven Bridges | ||||