Frozen Niagara

These are pictures from the "Frozen Niagara" tour at Mammoth Cave National Park, KY.

The tour starts with a bus ride to an old cave-in.  Hundreds of metal steps have been built to allow the descent through the tight cracks hundreds of feet below the surface.  It took workers 2 weeks to find the original path all the way into the caverns from the cave-in.  The tour is named after the formations near the end that resemble a water fall.  Tight passageways and beautiful formations make this tour a must see.

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Descent into the caverns

Still going down

Deep Pit

Natural underground tunnel

Squeezing down the path

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More narrow tunnel

Collapsed cave

Ranger leading the way

Going back down

Larger crevices

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part of Frozen Niagara

formations

more formations

more formations

more formations

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more formations

Working our way through

better duck

stalactites

stalactites

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pillars

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