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Craters of the Moon, Idaho

The next bit of the trip took us across the state boundary into Idaho where we pitched up at The Craters of the Moon.  What a fabulous place.   It is a large area of land completely covered with 2000 year old Volcanic lava eruptions.  It’s a very desolate looking place but strangely very beautiful.  The rocks and patterns left by the massive lava flows solidifying are very varied and are different textures and colours.   beautiful textures on lava flow There are several large craters scattered around with trails to walk around and look at them.   We set up camp and sorted out the two spots we wanted, then we drove round the site to see what was on offer.   It was extremely hot so we agreed to do most of the sights in the morning when it was cooler and less busy so we only stopped and walked around two spatter cones rare examples not found often and In one of the spatter cones there was snow!! It didn’t even look that deep but you could...