Freeze

The weather was supposed to be warm. It wasn't. I was camping in the the malpais, bad country, of New Mexico and it was -20 degrees farenheit at night. The moisture in my breath froze and turned into little snowflakes while I tried to keep myself warm inside my car. Each morning when I woke up my outer sleeping bag was covered in a thin layer of ice that cracked and tinkled as it fell to the cheap frozen carpeting

Staying warm isn't so hard, but that wasn't the only complication the cold brought. All of my food and water was solid. It took hours to prepare a little dinner of soup and water. Without constant heat nothing stayed liquid long.

But the caves! I explored half a dozen or more caves in just three days. Biking from my car across the frozen lava fields scanning for yet another entrance into the vast underground labyrinth carved a millennia ago.

-2012-
sleepwalking
new chapter

-2011-
like sedona?
torn in two
blink
bridge to nowhere
door
hitting the wall
elusive 2
elusive 1
ascenders
voyage
hole
icarus

-2010-
revisited 2
revisited 1
which way?
the pit
treasure
narrow
snowfall
chute
false floor
monolith
crack
freeze
slice
bunker
beckon
treasure
resolution

-2009-
goodbyes
undercurrents
casting the bones
mountain thief
the deer hunter
strange temple
sanctuary
burial pt. 3
burial pt. 2
burial pt. 1
scarlet fever
rebirth from hell
forsaken
the lower depths
underground lake
stretch sewer
crypt
still waters
shadow movements
meager rations
sw pt.8: geothermal + ending
sw pt.7: lost gold mines
sw pt.6: big tube caves
sw pt.5: gold!
sw pt.4: el calderon caves
sw pt.3: redondo
sw pt.2: ghosts
southwest adventure pt.1
the river
dark salvation
reflections
dreams
the underdark
night odyssey
beginnings