I love the golden glow which appears when the sun begins to set but the golden moment doesn’t last long and I’m not always in the spot I want to be when that moment arrives. And when I shoot landscape photos, I try not to have man-made objects in them or people, but photographs don’t always give you the scale without a reference or more views. This cave went very deep which isn’t seen in this view and with a very high ceiling. The little, icy opening on the left side was big enough for me to walk through so it would have been a long drop if I fell off the top when I hiked on the ridge of the caves in the summer. But then I didn’t know I wasn’t walking on solid ground so not sure I will feel so safe to walk on top again since I saw recent slabs that have fallen from the ceiling and sides.

Golden Cave

I much more prefer seeing ice on these cave walls than on the roads I have been driving on. The ice formations on the caves of the south shore of Lake Superior are various colors including clear ice several inches thick.

And some of the cave tunnels reminded me of the Olympic luge track except I didn’t have a sled so in some of the tunnels, I just had to sit on my butt to slide out, but the caves were memorable to see.

Icy Tunnels