After our science-y adventures we finally reached Craters of the Moon National Monument. I can vaguely remember going here as a kid at some point. And I think we recreated that trip almost in its entirety.
I can remember hiking up Inferno Cone and the deceptiveness of the climb. When you think you’re just about at the top you find out the trail just levels out for a moment and the angle hides the rest of the cone. Heather and I went to the top….
While Jess and Corinne waited at the bottom:
We saw the snow at the bottom of Snow Cone:
And look, pictorial evidence that I was on this trip!
That evening we had dinner at another Culver’s, this one in Twin Falls:
And we pushed on to Elko, NV and found a hotel with a pool for the girls to do some swimming. The next day it was all the way home and the Great Road Trip of 2018 was finally over.