Spearfish, South Dakota. The area around this town has some of the most beautiful scenery we've seen yet. We hiked two trails on Wednesday and will do one more long one tomorrow. The plan is to drive to Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota on Friday by way of the Devil's Tower. Icky's grumbling because we've been here a week and only hiked 29 miles. I'm sure we'll catch up.
This is what you think of when you hear about fly fishing. Rivers, creeks and streams everywhere. There's a
fish hatchery and museum in the town with a rail car that was outfitted to move fish from the hatchery across the country.
One of the trails we hiked today climbed 1,000 vertical feet in just 3/4 of a mile and was used by
Potato Creek Johnny. He was a prospector famous for finding one of the largets gold nuggets in these hills and often hiked the trail we took from his cabin 5 miles away to the Latchstring Inn to trade his gold for supplies. The trail leads to a summit called Buzzards Roost. After hiking the trail we figure that Johnny's mule was none too happy with him.
There are a few more photos -
click here.
Beautiful pictures! I'm glad I'm not having to keep up with Icky.
ReplyDeleteMisspelled word on the fern sign. Don't people read these things?
You're right about the mispelled words on the sign - but I had a few myself.
ReplyDeleteWhat a feisty little character and a tough little buzzard.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos of beautiful scenery. Amelia is looking very fit..... but where is Bill. Let's have some documentation that shows he is actually doing some hiking and not lying under a tree taking photos.