Spearfish Canyon and Devil's tower

Snoop isn't sure where he is, but he's digging the multi-layerer rock. Seriously. This stuff is amazing!

Spearfish Canyon. Here's the river that ended up as nothing more than a dried up bed of stones. (An earlier post talks about where it went.)

Here's Snoop, soaking up some rays on the dried up river bed.
This was pretty cool; the rock in the middle had been worn down and wound up totally molding itself to the rock that Snoop is sitting on. (We didn't touch these rocks, this is exactly how we found them.)

Wide open roadways. They were simply amazing!!

Now where is this "Devil's Tower" we keep hearing about? Nothing so far, but extremely scenic wide open spaces...

Hey, there it is, way off in the distance. Cool!!! Right, Snoop?
Ok, so this pic is a bit out of order. Here, we were riding away from it, and I managed to catch both the DT and Zig in my side mirror, and I thought it made an excellent shot so I had to take it.

Ok, back to the correct progression of things. Here, we're approaching the tower...

And closer, againStill closer!... Even Snoop is in on the action.


And here you are; this is as close as we got. We could have paid an entrance fee to get to the other side, but after finding out that we'd only get to see the other side (but not get any closer), we opted to just snap some pics and then start rolling back towards the Badlands.

Rolling back the way we came, and stopping to snap some pics along the way...

We finally made it back to the KOA in the Badlands. But to get here, we had to ride for miles, and miles...and MILES!!! Long miles, where we saw nothing...not human, not animal, nothing!, for hours and hours. But we eventually made it back. We checked in, dropped off our shit, and headed off to the bar. What bar? Oh, how quickly they forget. I already did a write-up on the Horseshoe Pub. What a time that was!!!
Ok sorry, this pic is out of order. This is taken of the Badlands, on our way back from Devil's Tower, before we got to the KOA Kampground. But it is a hell of a nice shot.

Again; out of order, but a sweet shot.
Yep; out of order, but again; a nice shot.

When Zig and I were at the fun-as-hell bar (Horseshow Pub), he did a smart thing. He went outside and captured a few shots of the sunset. And they're very good - I'm telling you folks, you need to get out here and see what you're missing!!

Here is the bar (still in daylight - this was soon to change). The Horseshoe Pub. Oh, what fun was waiting within these walls for us to discover!