To escape the heat we packed ourselves into the car yesterday and drove to Flagstaff. For our outdoors activity of the day, we drove about 15 miles or so north of Flagstaff and got to the Lava River Cave:

This cave is about a mile long and is actually a a lava tube that was formed some 700,000 years ago by the cooling of molting lava from a near by volcano. If you want more details just click the name above the photo.

You go down quite a steep rocky kind of tunnel path and get into the darkness, quite an adventure. The thing that I liked the most about this cave is the temperature it was Cold such a nice change after the long long hot days that we have here these days.

It is of course, quite dark inside:

To let you see more of the cave I used photoshop:

Oh yes and among other things (walking, cooling off, getting all stressed at some very low point of the cave) I also did a bit of knitting while my dearest was busy photographing:

Do you see my very practical knitting pouch:

It is a fancy bag of a Crown Royal Bottle – an excellent way to make everyone in the family happy :)

And if you are wondering, I made only one small mistake and had to rip off just a few stitches and it is all because of this stitch: Garter Rib in the round, it slows me down all the time and make me rip and knit and knit and rip even in full light, I suspect it just wants my undivided attention that’s all! And no, I don’t usually carry my knitting with me when we hike, I just was not sure I am going to enter the cave (I don’t particularly care for closed dark places) so I took the sock with me and when I saw the entrance and decided to go in I just put it in my pocket,,,

I think this is the weirdest place I ever knitted in, what do you think?