#115 Spelunk!

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If there’s a better way to spend a Saturday morning than hiking halfway up a mountain and crawling into a hole in the ground, I donât know what it is.

Honestly.

Donât you think if Iâd have had a better idea I would have been doing it? Instead, one recent Saturday found me standing halfway between heaven and earth getting ready to crawl into…well, into a really dark place.

The dark place in question is a popular Utah tourist destination called Timpanogos Cave. It is conveniently located a dozen or so miles up a winding canyon road. Tourists who are brave enough to drive to the Visitorâs Center are rewarded with the opportunity for a mile-and-a-half hike up the mountainside to the cave entrance. You would think that a tourist destination would have been better planned; like Stonehenge which the druids thoughtfully constructed right beside a major highway…….
 

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NOTES: 

• Timpanogos Cave really is beautiful and worth visiting. You can learn more about it at these websites:
  http://www.nps.gov/tica/
  http://www.utah.com/nationalsites/timp_cave.htm
• In addition to being a Park Ranger, our guide Kory is an accomplished caver. His brother Brandon is too. Some of Brandon’s extraordinary cave photos can be found at:
  http://www.brandonkowallis.com/Images.htm
• I’d like to give a quick shout-out to listener Lauralee and point you to her blog at:
  http://www.monkeylauralee.blogspot.com/

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