Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands
Exploring the National Parks of New Mexico
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Carlsbad Caverns
The view over the vast desert makes you wonder how anyone found the caverns even if there are a ton of bats that come out at night.
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We’re around 10-20 stories underground at this point with the cave formations getting more incredible around each switchback we descend
The Boneyard
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Shelf rock shows where the water level sat for millennia while the minerals slowly crusted over the top
An original ladder made out of a fence used by Jim White to explore the cave
Rock of Ages. Where were you 250 million years ago?