Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Ape Cave Exploration

To get ready for camp, some of the young women went on a hike through Ape Cave. It is a hike we have done before, so Dana offered to act as the unofficial guide. Magnus helped by hanging out with Farmor while we hiked.

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You have to bring your own flashlights, so it’s easy to miss the cool colors.

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The girls were mostly good sports going through the tunnels. A few of them hiked very quickly and had to be held back sometimes.

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Here is our intrepid Young Women president scaling the lava falls and looking like Spiderman. Everyone made it through the cave. Yay!

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After the long hike, we went to a picnic area and ate lunch. Some of the girls also went on A Trail of Two Forests, a shorter hike where you crawl through a much smaller lava tube formed by lava hardening over a log and then the log decayed. I took a nap.

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It was a good hike!

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