Fun at the Paris Ice Caves!!

One of the days while we were up on the hill we decided to take a drive over to Paris. Not Paris, France but Paris, Idaho where there is a cave up the canyon called the Paris Ice Caves. Usually when we've gone it has been earlier in the summer and we've taken the ATV's, but because of all the snow that was dumped in the mountians you can't get up there yet with ATV's we decided we would drive there and see how much snow and ice was still there. But to our surprise the road still had snow drifts. It ended up being only one drift on the road and even with 4 wheel drive we decided we would just hike there. So we were glad we didn't try to go through it. The hike from the trucks was a mile and a half both ways so we set off for the caves. As we got started some 4-wheelers came by and got stuck in the snow,so we were glad we decided to walk. Some of the snow drifts were about six feet high. The kids had a blast playing on them. Clark even tried to slide down on his bottom (without a sled). They were having snowball fights and having a great time. Living in Alabama we don't get snow, we did get a little this year but it wasn't much. So they got there snow fix in for the year and it is the end of June.

Almost there just another half a mile.



We finally made it. YEAH!










The mouth of the cave.














A six foot drop in the snow to the floor of the mouth of the cave.











There was too much ice on the bridge, so we weren't able to get to the other side of the cave.
I was going to try to get across but there is nothing to hold onto and the ice on the side of the bridge looked very slick and I didn't want to get wet of hurt.
So next time we will get across.
Hiking to the top of the cave on the outside. Notice how much snow there is to my brother-in-law at the top left.













A fifty foot drop from the top, with sheer edges. I wouldn't go to close to the edge, I'm not a fan of heights. I have never seen this much snow in here. Next time we go hopefully we can make it across the bridge.