We awoke to a subtle reminder that it’s time to head South:

For breakfast, Trish cooked up the trout our son caught last week.  It was delicious!

Here’s what our overnight location looked like after it warmed up a bit:

After a successful morning home school session, we headed out to look for Hidden Forest cave.  It’s really two segments of a collapsed lava tube with a still-standing segment in the center.

Here’s the southern segment.  It’s a 50 foot drop into the collapsed tube:

It really is a Hidden Forest:

Our son surveys the entrance to the cave portion:

Looking back:

When entering the cave, there was a 1’ x 2’ passage that led to the northern collapsed lava tube.  Trish spots our son as the climbs up and out of the pit:

Looking back into the nothern section:

Next we explored Arnold Ice cave, which used to supply Bend with ice.  A few years ago it rather suddenly ran dry, so we were able to get all the way to the end of the cave:

It was a steep climb out:

We’re staying at the Walmart of Bend again tonight.

  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.