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Continuing with my short, wet, sweet trip to Mt. Shasta.

The first day was spent on the mountain. When we descended the clouds really moved in and the rain began to pour. It poured all night and all the next day. But that didn’t stop me from wanting to get out and take some pictures.

The first stop on that rainy Saturday was the Mt. Shasta Caverns. Anyone that knows me knows, I’m not a big fan of going underground in caverns where bats live. But in an effort to overcome my fear I went anyway.

First we go to the lake, get on a boat, and cross over to the other side of the lake.

On the boat heading to the cavern entrance.

Once across the lake we walked up that hill, got on to a shuttle bus and drove further up the mountain.

This is the view from the cavern entrance.

Entering the cavers we walked up 241 stairs. The neat thing about these caverns are you don’t really go down underground. It’s more like you go up and into the mountain.

The entrance to the caverns was originally discovered by a young Native American when he was tracking a Bobcat. But then in 1828 Richardson & C.M. used explosives to open up the caverns to what they are today.

Of course there were the usual stalactites and stalagmites.

They call this curtaining. Some of the layers look like bacon.

I wish I had a good shot of the grand cavern they called the cathedral room. But the lighting and the size of the room proved to be hard for me to get a good shot.

At last we exit the caverns. To this beautiful view…

To Be Continued…………

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