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A view just inside Popcorn Cave near Fall River Mills, California. This lava tube is accessed through a small collapsed sink & has a few different passages though the longest tunnel goes no more than 100+ feet in. The cave (as well as nearby Big Cave) were more popular in past decades however access to them has been left unmarked & overgrown in a buckbrush/ghost pine setting. Both caves have abundant coralloids looking like popcorn, a type of speleothem to which the cave is likely named. Smooth pahoehoe through a passage a few feet high leads one to a small pit which doesn't go any further.
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