Caves Up North

I recently went on a long trip up to the Lassen/Shasta area and have hundreds of amazing pictures to share. I'll try to post up weekly until we get through them, since I already have more, new adventures to share.

Here are two caves I visited, one in each region.

This is a former lava tube near Hat Creek, where molten rocked flowed across the land from a fissure in the side of Mt. Lassen thousands of years ago:

There is plenty of daylight at the entrance, but it stops there.

Some moss

And sulfur deposits

After this shadow, it is pitch black

The floor is full of these embedded rocks, which formed when the lava fell from the ceiling as it cooled

At one point it started cooling, but more lava came in, creating a bench on both sides

Crazy dark

Cool formations

These cracks in the walls and ceiling were a little disconcerting

low and fat, can you picture the lava flowing through?

Ceiling

A light at the end of the tunnel

But a cave-in on the way

Ouch, this must have hurt

Ah, stairway to heaven

Then I went to Shasta Caverns off the lake, you take a boat to get there, then a bus up to the entrance on a cliff

These mountains are full of caves

 Stalagtites

 Flowstone

 These formations are created from chemicals and water dissolving and depositing over eons

These were sparkly

 Picasso?

Almost like an altar or organ 

Amber was the dominant hue 

Comments appreciated!