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| Bob reading the sign for one of his Earth Cache reports... | Both the Badlands and Needles are relatively new parks... both in the70's. | Need this for an Earth Cache as I got hooked on GeoCaching on the trip... |
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| Trails run off in all directions around here... would be fun if you had days to spend here.... | ||
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| On the way to Wyoming to Devils Tower we saw Sitting Bull Monument being worked on... | After a couple of hours drive, we finally see our last destination of the day... Devil's Tower. | The sign... |
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| You may remember this from the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | When we got there we had some more wildlife right at the edge of the trail. | |
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| The tower is known as Great Bear Mountain by the local tribes and is considered religious ground. Members leave prayer cloth all around the monument. | ||
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| We saw 5 climbers trying to accend the tower. | These two were in tandem.. | There they are together... |
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| Now we are zooomed out a bit... can you still see them? | And now what it looked like from the trail around the tower... they are just specks on the mountain. | Sign... |
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| There is a trail around the tower... about a mile.... | But you can get to see all sides of it. | On the back side were 3 more climbers.. 1 solo and 2 others (this one taking a picture of his partner coming up). |
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| Smile ... your partner is already there! | This one was solo climbing... was going pretty fast too!! | On the left of the guy is the original wood ladder they used to climb up long ago! |
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| Can you find the 3 climbers on the hill? | How about now?? | Here is one of the pillars on the ground... |
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| With it in the foreground... it came from up there! | Needed this picture for an Earth Cache log. | Bob did too! |
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| Looks like it could crumble anytime... | ||
