Another beautiful day in Washington draws us out to explore some more on April 15th. Sure beats doing taxes on that day!
We decided to take a drive up to Mount St. Helens and check out "Ape Cave". This is a lava tube that was formed 2,000 years ago and is the longest in the United States at 12,810 feet (3.9 kilometers) long. And it's only about 1 hour away!
As we continued it was becoming apparent that winter wasn't quite finished up here yet!
Okay, so let me share something with you here....if you are going to go and explore this lava tube on your own in the off season, which this was, you are going to need to bring a flash light! A big one! Somewhere in all the brochures I read, I missed where a flashlight is a must if you are going to walk the mile and half long lava tube. Hmmm. But common sense might tell you that hey, your going in a long lava tube, underground...Hello!! I have visited many caves and even a lava tube when I was in Hawaii, but it was always with a tour guide, and low and behold they had flashlights! Okay enough of that.
We went ahead and went down the steep rocky wet stairs that lead into the mouth of the lava tube.
Took a few pictures and left in great dissapointment that we didn't get to hike through the lava tube.
So we say good-bye to Mount St. Helens and head back to meet up with Sterling and Carrie for Happy Hour!
If you would like to see more pictures of our day just click here "Where's Debbie" and then click on the album "Mount St Helens"
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