On the western side of El Malpais National Monument is an ice cave on privately held land. The cave is actually a collapsed lava tube that's oriented in such a way that the temperature inside the cave's mouth stays a steady 31 degrees Fahrenheit year round. The ice is 20 feet thick and made for a good subject. Thankfully there weren't many other visitors, since the viewing area for the cave was a wooden platform, and their footsteps would have caused too many vibrations for our tripods (we had to shoot long exposures due to the low light inside the cave).
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