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Welcome to CMNM
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A flashback to US-95, heading south from my nighttime accomodations in Cambridge, ID
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One of the wide lava fields that lead into Craters of the Moon
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Most of these dark lava chunks are bigger than my Jeep's engine
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The black earth of a long dry lava field
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The Cinder Cone
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Jagged shapes in the Devils Orchard
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More jagged clumps in the Devils Garden
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A hulk of Lava in DG
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Lava spreads out around a small pack of tourists
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Lava Beasts
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The cinder hill, from the back side
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This tree was not killed by a pyrocalstic burst, but by fungus
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Read it and learn
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Close-up of lava rocks
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A Limber Pine, one of the only trees that flourish in the lava soil
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A wall of lava
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Infernal Cone. A much longer climb than it looks. The dark cinders mitigate the perspective.
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The view from the summit of Infernal Cone. Here is where bright sunlight would have come in handy.
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Spatter Cones, viewed from the top of Infernal Cone.
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A hole in the lava
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A lava plain
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The path to the Caves
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Boy Scout Cave was filled with ice
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The exit from Boy Scout Cave, where I did a little spelunking. Nothing easy or smooth in this one. It was dark and bang-your-shins rugged.
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The entrance to Beauty Cave -- really just a collapse point giving access to the hollow ground beneath
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The way out, without a flash
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Ironically, the way out looks darker with a flash
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A similar collapse point, where the lava crust just gave way under its own weight
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