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Desert / Ghost Town Trek #17

Lava Beds National Monument 4, October 2008
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Ingot ghost town / mine camp site along SR 299 east of I5.
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The site is completely isolated from the highway by a river, so it's fairly undisturbed considering it's only an hour or so from Redding, CA.
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So what are we doing back at Lave Beds, already? Both of our previous trips were in the summer and many of the caves are closed seasonally because of bat habitats. We came back and got a room in Bieber, CA in October when the bat caves opened back up.
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This strange beam like object barring the way, leaving two small crawls, is called Jupiter's Thunderbolt.
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Labyrinth Cave.
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This passage is called Fat Persons Misery.
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The leg section narrows to six inches.
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Window passage between two lava tubes in Mitertite Hall Cave.
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A dead end up in the attic.
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Dramatic lava flow patterns coming from one of the side passages.
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