So, we hiked up the the Darby Wind Cave today. It's right on the Wyoming Idaho border (Wydaho) in the Tetons. Holy crap, that hike totally wrecked me. It was about 5 miles at around 8000 feet, and we had to cross many streams on scary logs. A few of my friends fell in, but somehow I made it over each one. That mountain water is freezing.
We got up pretty close to the cave, which has huge cathedral entrance with a violent waterfall pouring out of it. The final part of the hike was steep and off the trail, because the whole area was covered in snow. I was about waste deep in snow for some of this. Not cool. We couldn't get into the cave because it was buried, although my friends made a good effort and did some pretty impressive rock climbing. I got totally dirty, wet, and exhausted, but it was beautiful, and I'm proud that I didn't roll of the mountain at some points. We're gonna try again in a few weeks, hoping that the snow will be melted.
Way to survive, Julia.
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I'm so glad you weren't attacked by Big Foot. Personally I wouldn't be too sad that the cave was buried in snow -- I do way better hiking around in the open air than I do in scary confined places that could fall in on ones head.
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