We had made reservations for a cave tour in Great Basin NP a month earlier. Good thing we did because they were all sold out. We took our time in the morning getting on the road since our tour was not until 1PM. We arrived in time to enjoy our picnic lunch before the tour. The tour was short, only about an hour. Lehman’s cave is a rare Marble cave, but you really could not see any marble as all the surfaces were covered by calcite unlike our Oregon Caves tour. The most unique feature of the cave was the multiple shield formations. The cave was very humid and since we were required to wear masks, our glasses kept fogging up. David had brought a couple of jackets in case it was too cool in the cave. But as he went to put one on, he realized he had brought two of Leslie’s jackets, neither of which would fit him. But the temperatures in the cave were a refreshing 52 degrees, so jackets were not needed. Part way through the cave, Leslie stepped wrong and tweaked her bad knee, but soldiered on through the tour. After an hour below ground, we were happy to see sunlight! On the way out of the park, we decided to take the dirt Pole Canyon road out of the park. As soon as we hit the park boundary there were a bunch of side roads and no map on where they went. We ended up playing around for a couple of hours finding our way back to a hard surface road, but it was fun.
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| Parachute Shield Formation |
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