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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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For the claustrophobic tube crawler:
Callie style pahoehoe:
Lava Beds State Park, Callie
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2010 - 05:25pm PT
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Greg Barnes: thanks for sharing your childhood adventures
Reilly: that lave tube is an erosional remnant of its former self
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Gene
Social climber
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Back when I lived on the Samoan island of Savaii we would expore fresh lava tubes created by, I think, a 1918 eruption. Dark. Scary. Fun. They went on forever. Probably why I have become slightly claustrophopic in my dotage.
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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The tubes around Bend are okay but out in Eastern Oregon is a monster tube known as Malheur Cave. It is on private property. It goes back about 3000 feet and has a lake in the back. In some places the tube is over 20 feet around. I first visited it while in high school as part of an earth science class. That whole desert area around the Alvoid Desert and Steens Mtn. are really cool.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2010 - 12:42am PT
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Here's another photo from Ape Cave
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Hey Scared Silly, you must not have been in the big caves near Bend. Some of those are 50 feet wide and 60+ feet tall and go for a LONG ways. And one of them is 3 levels! First time we went in to that one ('80s) there was a hemp rope hanging from a hole in the ceiling that crumbled dust off it if you touched it. Went back in the '90s and it had been replaced with a modern wire ladder - the upper level went nowhere either way so aid was used to get up there (most likely a collapsable ladder).
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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I've been in a few, (ape caves, the kailua cave, 2 or 3 of the ice caves around Bend) they always disappoint me compared to a limestone cave. I don't mean to offend, but they are so damn coarse compared to the intricate little do-dads and stuff you see in older limestone caves with all the formations. Even those little silica dots you see formed on the Kor-Ingals on Castleton I find more interesting.
Now when lava is flowing, that's interesting.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2010 - 12:58am PT
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I agree couchmaster...the aesthetics of a limestone cavern far exceeds that of a lava tube. For some reason the idea of being in a cave where molten lava once flowed really appeals to me.
I've been in a couple of limestone caverns, one in the Sierra foothills and another in northern Spain. They are very cool but I didn't take any photos while I was there.
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