On the hike down to Thurston Lava tube I placed the camera on a rock to take a group photo. The hike through the lava tube is fairly pedestrian but if you take a flashlight along you can go though a gate and go back 1000 ft further in pitch black. We did and it was way cool. Notice the huge ferns around us. The scenery is so prehistoric you half expect a dinosaur to pop out of the ferns.