Craters of the Moon & EBR-1 Museum JULY 2019
Craters of the Moon is a national monument and presser in the Snake River Plain in Central Idaho. It an enormous lava flow with scattered cinder cones. It was formed 15000 to 20000 years ago when lava erupted from the Great Rift. It has some of the best examples of open rift cracks in the world. In fact it has the deepest rift crack on earth over 800 feet deep. Also are lava tubes (a type of cave). We traveled here with Shantel and the grandkids. This was Shanny's first "solo" road trip - over 3300 miles without Adam. We met here and explored the caves. Tom and I joined the kids on 2 of the caves - Beauty and Indian, but we passed on the Boy Scout cave. It was fairly steep and rocky and once in the bottom the floor was wet and covered in ice in some areas......so it was a little slippery for us. But the kids had fun and Shany didn't want to leave as it was so cool inside (and was hot above ground). Of course the kids completed another Jr. Ranger Badge.