K & L Adventures: Carlsbad Caverns and Lincoln National Forest (New Mexico)

November 13th 2010

What a fun filled day. Off to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. We finally got our first stamp for our Passport to Your National Parks binder. We hiked two self guided routes. The first route we hiked was called the Natural Entrance (1.25 miles) and then we continued onto the Big Room (1.25 miles). In order to get started, we had to hike down into the cavern, the descent was about 800 feet. Liz has never seen a cavern before so needless to say she was really slow! She thought she had to take pictures of everything, at that pace we would have never completed both routes. She finally learned to enjoy what she was seeing, continuing hiking, and limit the amount of picture taking. The temperature in the cave was approximately 56 degrees. We hiked for about 4 hours. Towards the end everything started to look the same. We have so many pictures it is really hard to decide which ones to post. Here are just a few:

Carlsbad Caverns

If this was not enough for the day, off we went on the motorcycle to the Lincoln National Forest. The forest was about 45 miles from where we are staying. We were off to see "Sitting Bull Falls". The roads leading to the falls were very windy and hilly and rather interesting but at least these had some pavement on them. There were signs to indicate that there were cattle. On these roads the cattle walk wherever they feel like it. Yes that means along the side of the road, on the road etc.