azgnoinc
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Post by azgnoinc on Sept 24, 2014 22:04:09 GMT -5
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Geoff
spending too much on rocks
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Post by Geoff on Sept 24, 2014 22:32:31 GMT -5
That is awesome! If you find out where it is, let me know
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 24, 2014 22:37:34 GMT -5
AWESOME!!!!
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Post by washingtonrocks on Sept 24, 2014 22:41:21 GMT -5
Beautiful photos! It's Ape Cave near Mt. St. Helens. It's not really much of a "secret" as the story suggests. Much of the cave system is easily accessible.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 23:27:15 GMT -5
Beautiful photos! It's Ape Cave near Mt. St. Helens. It's not really much of a "secret" as the story suggests. Much of the cave system is easily accessible. Field trip!!!!
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Post by captbob on Sept 24, 2014 23:37:36 GMT -5
That is extremely cool!
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gemfeller
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Post by gemfeller on Sept 25, 2014 0:47:39 GMT -5
I spent a lot of time exploring ancient lava tubes at Craters of the Moon, Idaho years ago before it became a National Monument. The tubes there are all black basalt with no collectible minerals I can recall. They do have a fascinating feature: they're called "ice-perched springs." Meltwater from winter snow runs into them but it's much cooler underground and much of it freezes in early Fall. When it melts again the next summer the water sinks deep into the jumble of volcanic debris that makes up much of the Snake River Plain. It and much more drainage water that sinks into the plain from Idaho's central batholith, the upper reaches of Snake River, the two Lost Rivers, etc. emerges again years later in a series of very large springs that flow into Snake from Pocatello on the east to the Hagerman Valley on the northwest. Some of them are breathtakingly beautiful.
One day I was in a lava tube and noticed the floor in one area was all transparent ice. I caught a flash of something out of the corner of my eye and directed my flashlight beam towards it. About 8 inches under the surface a frozen jackrabbit, eyes wide open, was staring back at me. That left an eerie feeling. Bad luck for Bunny.
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Post by washingtonrocks on Sept 25, 2014 11:33:12 GMT -5
Beautiful photos! It's Ape Cave near Mt. St. Helens. It's not really much of a "secret" as the story suggests. Much of the cave system is easily accessible. Field trip!!!! I'm ready to go!! ...I know my folks took me and my brothers there when we were kids, but that was many moons ago, and at the time I wasn't even interested in rocks. Can you believe that?!
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chassroc
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Rocks are abundant when you have rocktumblinghobby pals
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Post by chassroc on Sept 26, 2014 12:52:48 GMT -5
Only Lava Tubes I've been in are on the big island Hawaii, part of the National Park and open to anyone.
The washington tubes are much more elaborate
charlie
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Post by Pat on Sept 26, 2014 15:19:49 GMT -5
Beautiful! Not a troglodite. Love sunshine.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 26, 2014 15:40:13 GMT -5
Haven't been to either Washington or Hawaii. But I have been here:
www.nps.gov/labe/index.htm
Located in Northern California (fifteen - twenty miles from Oregon border), near the town of Tule Lake, CA. Lot of Native American history there.
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