On the final day we drove through Portland throughout the night and stopped at a rest stop along the way. In the morning we made our way back into Idaho and we stopped at some Fossil Beds and then headed to the Minidoka site. This was one of the internment camps for Japanese Americans during WWII - very sad stuff there. But very interesting to learn about.
I believe we found this building when we were driving through Shoshone. We just had to take this picture for our friends Matt Jenn Baugh.
Our last stop of the trip was Craters of the Moon National Monument. We only thought we'd spend 1-2 hours there but we ended up spending 4 hours! We hiked pretty much everything there!
All of the black is some form of lava.
Crazy tree probably got burned during the lava flow.
This was our hike up Inferno Cone. It reminded us of a mini Mt. St. Helens climb...it doesn't end over that ridge...its always deceiving!
Ramin at the top of one of the ridges.
At the very top of Inferno cone.
A few from the top of Inferno Cone.
Heading up one of the Spatter Cones.
Inside one of the Spatter Cones.
Inside one of the Spatter Cones.
View inside the North Crater.
Cool shot of the oozing lava.
On our way to the lava tube caves!! It was HOT!
Inside of the entrance to one of the caves. We made it into Indian Tunnel, Boy Scout Cave and Beauty Cave (my favorite), but the battery on our camera gave out just inside of Indian Tunnel and it was way too far for us to walk back to the car and get a new battery. So this is the end of our 9-day trip in pictures We were a bit exhausted by the time we got back home - as you can probably tell from all of the things we did.
THE END OF OUR PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRIP 2013!
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