1 Sunrise leaving Topaz.
2 Badger!
3 I wasn't expecting a badger to saunter along the road.
4 Thanks for mugging!
5 Great Basin National Park - Lehman Caves tour.
6 Flowing, slightly acidic groundwater eroded the limestone caverns, water levels dropped creating the caverns and then drips filtering from the surface slowly deposited layer after thin layer of calcite to create the stalactites and stalagmites.
7 Here's a flash-blown view.
8 Nice draperies
9 Soda straw stalactites
10 Lehman Caves
11 This new stalactite has formed in the past 150 years after the original was broken off by early explorers.
12 A narrow squeeze.
13 Cave bacon.
14 Stairways up in Lehman Caves.
15 Lehman Caves
16 A fresh drip.
17 Lehman Caves bulbous straws.
18 Lehman Caves
19 Horace and Lehman Caves
20 Looks like chocolate ice cream.
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