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Lava River Cave

Lava River Cave

The temperature inside is 42 degrees, even in July. Step inside Lava River Cave on a scorching Flagstaff summer day and you'll understand immediately why this is one of Arizona's most unusual natural features. On some visits, you'll find actual ice near the entrance,

Chalcedony Cabin

Chalcedony Cabin

On a scorching late spring day in 2015, we journeyed out to a lonely cabin in the central heart of the Mojave Desert. This is a barren landscape of sand and lava. Any roads that once traversed this wasteland were wiped out by monsoonal thunderstorms long ago.

Silver Divide Mine

Silver Divide Mine

Silver Canyon Cabin

Silver Canyon Cabin

In the summer of 2014, at the end of an exploration trip in the White Mountains of eastern California, we decided to take a little side trip to a cabin I had heard about. From what scarce history I could find on the place, there didn’t seem to be

Moreno Maze Pictograph

Moreno Maze Pictograph

Sandstone Eagle Cabin

Sandstone Eagle Cabin

We stumbled across this remote cabin back in 2010. Like so many cabins I come across, I haven’t been able to find the history of this one. I call it the Sandstone Eagle Cabin because there is a bit of sandstone nearby, which is quite unusual for the area,

Carizzo Gorge Pictographs

Carizzo Gorge Pictographs

Overlooking the rocky wash of the Carrizo Gorge, down in Anza Borrego State Park, sits a small rock shelter with a unique set of fascinating pictographs hidden inside.