Show two parties visit fillimore craters last sunday ted harris took homer christensen and frank beckwith sr to the craters west of fillmore for a auant we visited terrace crater first the one which has the conduit fil led with underground water at its bottom gilbert says this crater at one time contained fourteen acres 1 of molten lava that the great heat and pressure burst the south wall four different times and with each lowering ledges of lava were left on the side walls marking each heights of lava giving rise to the name terrace crater these ter races can be easily distinguished distin gushed I 1 took a picture of homer dress ed in light yellow khaki in the con duit dint another one when he faced the growth of bright green moss on the side wall these I 1 took in color and hope they turn out well ted took two shots of 0 open and shut flash of homer squatting on the rock playing with the water the candle drips once so ful in the open conduit are now all gone taken by souvenir hunters just as we got through with our visit we met the second party con of five girls may paulsen geniel Ji shipley hipley elaine sheriff wanetta roper and leila nielson all from delta leila was busy put ting on skates to cut fancy figures on the b rink a la sonja heime to win the plaudits of an admiring multitude leaving her n her skates we went in search of real ice we climbed to the top of miter crater and then slid down in the loose shale rock which lies on the angle of repose as the text books say and at the very bottom ted and homer found ice this is un usual on the former trip I 1 had found a current of air in that pit from below which strongly mo moved ved a suspended handkerchief sunday that opening was plugged with ice and it was a rare treat to get ice out of lava rocks in june in the next pit north the boy boys s size one called harvester crater the boys also found water which is unusual this is a year of high water table all over our area meadow reports three streams even now whereas in many years the water dwindles down to one only in june miter crater is the latest eruption in mil lard county it is feet in eter and ft deep I 1 wanted particularly on this trip to get some colored pictures of the lava candle drips formed on the side walls inside of miter crater but try as I 1 could we were unable to find the spot the boys thought I 1 was them until we found some broken ones which probably visitors had broken purposely to take home stubs re bained and I 1 guess the boys were finally convinced that there were such things I 1 have a black and white of a man standing before the side wall handling them and as the color is exquisite I 1 wanted a picture of that pleasing color too bad the wind was awful we did not go to the real ice cave 2 miles north as we were tired and hungry it made a very fine trip and the finding of ice at the bottom of miter crater was a rarity we all enjoyed although I 1 have this trip many times before on this one it seemed to require more effort harder work monday and tuesday my leg muscles were quite sore and I 1 was stiffened up nearly used up the girls said I 1 was getting old such rumors are not to be be lieveld |