Wind Cave National Park -
Hey, another opportunity to use our Senior Lifetime Passes. 50% off of the cave tours in the National Park YAHOO!. Those passes have paid for themselves multiple times over.
Wind Cave, one of the largest cave systems in the world and not yet totally explored. Liz, myself and 38 other intrepid explorers join our guide Mark on the 1.5 hr tour. The paths and lighting were done during work programs in the 30's by the Civilian Conservation Corps and it is hard to imagine the workers lugging tons of concrete into the caves to create the routes we and millions of others use to view this subterranean marvel.
Th interior is awash with Popcorn, Bridgework and Frostwork but lacks many of the stalactites an stalagmites of other caves. The name comes from the almost constant wind the exits and enters the cave. This is due to the changes in external air pressure (high and lows of weather patterns) so it could be said that the cave is a gigantic barometer.
About 1 hour and a bit into the tour the back half of the group gets separated from the guide - really, this is a national Park and we get separated? - and we get to a 'Y' in the path (more of a 'T' really) and since I am at the front of the group I lead off to the left - WRONG - 10 minutes later a winded guide who has be chasing us down catches up to us and turns us around to the exit. Embarrassing for me and a bit scarey for a very young girl with us. And I though Liz had a bad sense of direction.
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