Cody Caves Tour

Another day on the west side of Kootenay Lake. Today it was Cody Caves Tour.
We got up early, caught the 9am ferry where we had breakfast. This time, we took a right turn out of Balfour ans header towards Kaslo.
This is a much more scenic drive. A lot of the drive is barricaded because it is a straight cliff off into the lake. We got to our turn off and started our 10.7km climb up the mountain. This road is an active logging road, very rough gravel and very steep. I wouldn't want to travel it in the rain. We arrived quite early so we read a few brochures, and played some games on our phones. Our tour guide met us, and another family gave us our helmets and gloves then we were on our way. We did an 800m hike, which brought us another 200m in elevation to the cave entrance.
The caves stay quite cold, on average 6°C. Today it was 4°C. The entrance of the cave is on top of a pile of rock and mud due to an ice block. During the last ice age, a glacier pushed the ice block out, which caused rock and sand to collapse.
Both Chris and I were expecting large open caves, but to our surprise, many of the openings, you could barely stand upright in. Our tour guide is obviously very passionate about this, as he had a lot of information and was very happy to share it with us. I wont bore you with all the geology facts, but basically, there was a lot of cool rock, different forms of calcium and calcified rock due to erosion inside the cave.
Orian, our tour guide, took is into an extra part of the cave that isnt normally included in the Family Tour. We did a lot of climbing, shimmying and sliding to get into there, but it was well worth it.
It was much easier getting out of the cave than getting in, but it was very cool to see!Les mer