This year the girls climbed two different routes at Backbone State Park and explored several caves at Maquoketa Caves State Park including Wye Cave and Steel Gate Passage.

We top-roped Split Personality and Twin Crack. They stopped long enough for this group photo at the base of Twin Crack.

...emerging from a narrow constriction in Wye Cave.

Waiting for their turns to see if they can handle the claustrophobic lower passages of Wye Cave.