Old Mans Cave at night

Our first adventure resulted in us stumbling around the base of "Old Mans Cave", which happens to be the gem of the Hocking Hills. The entire park is built up around this recess cave even though the park also includes Ash Cave which is Ohio's largest recess cave. The reason why Old Mans Cave gets all the hype is probably because it has been made wheel chair accessible. This has come with no small effort but the results are amazing. The improvements have been done in such a way as to seem almost in natural place. The widened trails, ramps, bridges, and even the tunnels have been engineered in such a way, using rocks from the area and other natural looking materials, that everything blends into the environment. An artistic work in its self.

So there we were stumbling around, trying to get some night photographs of the cave and stream. Our efforts were mostly in vain but we did obtain this nice shot of us all the while a rabid raccoon was invading our base camp.