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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #16b

Lava Beds National Monument 3, August 2008
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Lavabeds 3 - 01

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Our third day camping in the deserty volcanic Northeastern California and caving at Lava Beds National Monument.
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Lavabeds 3 - 02

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Valentine Cave is huge and reminds me of Geiger's bio-mechanical alien ship in the first Alien movie.
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Lava that slumped just as it was cooling.
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Chocolatey alien goo.
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Lavabeds 3 - 08

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The far end of the cave, about 600 ft in, where the floor meets the ceiling and the lava stopped flowing.
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Lavabeds 3 - 09

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This is a rare tube-in-tube formation. We are inside a lava tube, and Roxanne is sitting on the outside of a smaller inner lava tube, pointing into a skylight of that tube.
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View of the inner tube by holding my camera down into the skylight.
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Lavabeds 3 - 11

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Split level lava tubes.
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Found a small, unofficial entrance to one of the caves in the Garden Bridges area.
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