Jewels and Bacon

We woke to rain, certainly welcome in that it cleared the air of the smoky haze. We were headed to Jewel Cave National Park, the third longest cave in the world (and growing). They map as they explore and from barometric testing, they expect they have only mapped 5% of the cave, which is already documented with 179 miles of tunnels.

The tour was the the best prepared cave tour we have taken with large aluminum staircases and platforms with 723 steps and a half mile of walking, down to 379 feet below the surface.

Still raining when we came out so we called it a day and got an early dinner. (DTV deployed!)

 This is 23 feet of (cave) bacon.