Highway scenes on the way to Rexburg and downtown historic Rexburg, Idaho. BYU
Idaho is in Rexburg, you can get Redneck Soda at a drive through and Rexburg has
a Bear World Attraction. We didn’t stop at it.
The bus at our campsite at Craters of the Moon National Monument. It is a huge
lava field. An old poster for Craters of the moon. The Shoshone have a legend
that speaks of a serpent on a mountain who angered by the lightening coiled
around it and squeezed until liquid rock formed and fire shot from the cracks
and the mountain exploded. As the rock cooled the snake was caught in the lava
where it remains today. One of the artists in residence here makes masks and
this one is of a bat species that lives in the lava tubes here.
An aerial shot shows the line of calderas formed over the Great Rift, a tear in
the earths surface where lava erupted. The hot spot moved down the rift erupting
more north each time. The hot spot now is under Yellowstone, the latest caldera
to erupt and it is expected to erupt again in the next 1000 years. The sign for
the monument visitors center. Much of the lava here is the pahoehoe type, it
flowed smooth thick liquid and hardened in these ropes of lava-kind of like
giant cow pies. The bus in the left side of the photo in the campground.
John has a new raincoat, it is camo rain forest green. He thinks he looks like a
bush on the lava field.
The campground from the ridge. The landscape here is so surreal that the rv’s
look out of place on it. North Crater in the distance is a ‘newer’ cone, with
less vegetation on it.
Bush coat on the trail. White plants on the lava.
The Monoliths, cinder cone fragments. Bus in the campground.
Different textures of the lava.
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