Tgil.....no they are quite a distance apart. More than likely I just didn't see it although I thought I had at that time. This was another 17 plus mile day and with Devils Chute Cave still on my to do list I probably hurried too much.....who knows. But they're definitely different caves.....that is for sure
JD.....thanks.....
So the last cave of the day was Devils Chute Cave and this was the cave that I mentioned previously where Tanner just jumped right in.....the picture doesn't show the scale very well but just the fact that the women that I had met earlier would not let their dogs down it gives you some idea of the steepness of the rock wall.....
I made my way down the rock wall.....fortunately someone had dragged a dead pine tree into the shaft and that helped immensely with a few additional hand holds.....
Once I had made my way down into the cave I realized that Tanner did not wait for me.....
First I entered a large cavern which was difficult to photograph.....
And at the very back of that cavern I saw a small opening which led into a much larger cavern.....I'd guess that opening was maybe 2 foot high and 3 foot wide.....
So I crawled through that opening and that's where I found my knucklehead dog wading in a lake.....this cavern was much larger than the first one, the bottom was covered with water, and at the far end of it I could see a snow wall and light from above.....
We didn't stay long.....I grabbed my knucklehead dog and said lets go.....
I thought that he'd need my help to get out of that cave but that dog hit that rock wall at full speed and was up it in seconds.....
We explored around the surface for just a little.....I was curious about that light that I saw. Maybe three hundred feet away we found the source.....there was another entrance.....
Now I was glad that I had returned to the Ice Caves of the Big Snowy Mountains cause if I hadn't I always would have regretted it, and now that I did it, I didn't regret it, so I guess you could say that I had a day of no regrets.....and a sore foot.....