Day 21

Great Basin National Park does not get the PR that say a Yosemite, Yellowstone, or even Grand Tetons get. With a name like Great Basin and a location like the dead of Nevada not far from a military bomb test site, the expectations we're pretty low. But once we got over a hill in the middle of western Utah, suddenly we saw 13K foot snow capped mountains ahead. Besides the mountains, Great Basin is known for Lehman Cave--according to the brochures, one of the top three most "decorated" caves in the world. Apparrently, decorated means numbers of features like stalagmites and stalactites. The 90 minute tour of the cave was indeed cool (literally and figuratively) and amazing.