We bought us a Trailer earlier this year I wanted to try it out. So we thought Spring Break would be the best time. We wanted to go to some other places, but they were either to far away or weren’t open for the season, So we settled on Lehman Caves. We also didn’t want to go all lone so we invited some friends The Esplin Family. None of us had never been before so we were excited to see it.
Lehman Cave’s is in the Great Basin National Park, in Nevada just west of Delta, Utah. It took us about 3 1/2 hours to get there. Since we had trailers we didn’t want to pay campground fees, so we stopped and the Visitors Center and unhooked one trailer and the men went out to find a place we could camp. While we waited it was snowing and the wind was blowing so hard. But the came back and the found a perfect spot. So we set up camp. The first night was so cold and the Boys (Clay, Tyler, Brody and Garrett) they wanted to make a fire. We didn’t want them to because it was to cold be outside but they built one any ways, the only thing was because it was blowing so hard the couldn’t get it to start. So the Dad’s had to go out and pour gas on it. It still struggled to start but eventually it did. The first night we each family stayed in our own trailers.
The next morning we got up and went to Lehman Caves. It is so neat!! The cave entrance is right behind the Visitor Center which meet no hiking. I thought it was so much better than Timpangos Cave. They have 2 tours a 60 minute or 90 minutes. We want on the 60 minute because you can go on the 90 minute with children under 5. Bur the Park Ranger asked us if we would like to see the 90 minutes in the 60 minutes of course we did. She showed what the call cave bacon and other really other cool things. The kids and the Adults loved it. After it was over we went back to the Visitor Center and the kids did the Junior Ranger Program.
I had had of an Arch called the Lexington Arch and wanted to check it out. Because it was the first week in April we were worried that there would be snow and the road and we wouldn’t be able to get there. So we asked 3 different Park Rangers and they all said that there wouldn’t be any snow but I would be muddy, but as long as we had 4-wheel drive we could get to it. So we drove to the turn off and stopped and had lunch, then we head up the 3 miles of dirt road. The roads weren’t muddy at all, but 1 mile away we started to run into snow. There ended up being so much snow that our truck got stuck (in the pictures you’ll see how deep it was). We knew if we kept going we wouldn’t get out at all and plus we weren’t prepared to walk in knee high snow. So we turned around and the Esplins got stuck. On our way back down there was this old cabin so we got out and had a look around. Then we headed back to camp. We put movies on for the little kids and the big boys went outside to play so us adults played a game.
The next day we went to Gandy, Utah. We had heard of Crystal Ball Cave and went to check it out. This cave is neat because you feel like you are exploring it for the first time. Randy had remembered that he had be to the guys house that showed us the cave when he was a scout and the there was a spring with a cave there. So we asked him about it and he told us how to get there, so that’s were we had picnic and then let the kids swim. We hadn’t brought swim suites with us, so the swam in there skivvies. Then went back to camp and played more games.
The next day the Esplins had to leave to get back to work, but we had other plans.
We went to U-DIG and dug for trilobites and had so much fun. If you have never done this it is worth it. It’s a little pricey but you get to keep everything you find. And we found so really good ones.
The next day we went to Topaz
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