Devil's Tower. We pulled in at 10:00 PM. Birds woke me up at 5:00 AM,
including a wild turkey.
We just missed seeing the tower in the setting sun but I got to see it
at dawn. The stars were fantastic last night with a brilliant Milky
Way. We could also see the headlamps of two climbers 3/4 of the way up
the south face at 10:00 PM They were vertically separated. I'm not
sure whether it was two parties or one that was late finding a bivouac
site. Do a google image search for "bivy ledge" if you've never seen
how climbers "sleep" on a cliff.
We had to go 140 miles the wrong way out of Yellowstone, back to
Bozeman, MT, to get Ruby fixed. David at College Exxon fixed the
problem (indeed a failed CV joint) in less than two hours using the
axle I had had overnight shipped to Yellowstone. We were on the road
heading the right direction by 1:00 PM.
So we covered 435 miles yesterday from Bozeman to Devil's Tower. It
was quite hot through Billings and Sheridan and the van was pretty
warm inside but Audrey and Charlotte were troupers. Carol did a
wonderful job stocking the van with activities to keep them occupied.
Today we'll buzz past Mt. Rushmore and the Badlands and then make it
as far as we can by 5:00 PM or so and find a hotel with a pool. If we
can get to Chicago by tomorrow night or Saturday noon we'll be back on
schedule.
1 comment:
Nice to see the adventure continues. What up with parking on the grass :)
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