Devil’s Tower

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After 3 nights at Horsethief lake we drove a mere 2 hours to Belle Fourche campground at the base of Devil’s Tower on June 21. A first come first serve campground we were worried about getting a spot but there were two or three open. Devil’s Tower is hard to believe. A massive column of igneous rock that juts up vertically from the surrounding countryside, it looks other worldly. Indeed it has been featured in movies such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I’m told the KOA down the road shows it every night. It was another cold, wet day but the rain held off until we were done hiking around it. The prairie dog town next to the campground was almost as fun. Here are some pictures…

Sacred to the native Americans, the top of DT is often lost in the clouds. Looks kind of like a smoke stack here. No idea what AK is seeing.
Our Campsite, Will is setting up Rosie
This is a huge prairie dog located between our campsite and DT. The path to hike up to DT went along the edge of it. There are at least three in the picture.
The missing columns on the backside of Devil’s Tower broke off, the girls may be climbing on them here. The resulting flat or smooth looking area is called “the window”, it resembled a map of Indiana to us.

This campground had a yellow warbler singing from almost every tree. Western Kingbirds and meadowlarks were frequent here as well. I saw a Bullock’s Oriole, a bird I had seen before but never recorded in eBird, so a life bird. On to Middle fork in the Bighorn mountains in the AM.

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We are a seasoned citizen couple heading out on our first sleeper van trip, with our English setter Samwise (aka Sammy). This blog is mostly to keep interested parties informed of our whereabouts and doings.

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