Sunday, October 28, 2007

Life in the Vast Lane - Parte Deux - AKA - The Theodore Roosevelt National Park

The Maltese Cross Cabin - this sits at the entrance to the park.
His tiny little bedroom - with the buffalo fur cover YUCK! - and his chest with the initials T.R. on top - there's actually a little sleeping loft where his cowhands slept too.
His dining room
His living room His kitchen - actually all one big room...
Hiking down the Little Missouri River.
Hiking up the Little Missouri River.
The Count of Days - showing the battle with Custer - commemorated not as the year they defeated Custer - but the year they 'lost the horse' - as they were forced to go to the reservation (without horses) after the battle.
A clinker covered hill.
A badlands view.
It's hard to get the scale and depth of some of these shots - they were spectacular.
We're on top of a cliff overlooking the river - there was no railing of any sort - Eeeep!
Ooooh pretty rocks...
more evidence of slumping...
More Badlands...
an un-burnt coal vein...
The dead trees where the coal was burning until 1977...
a toadstool - which looks exactly like - well a toadstool...
More scoria - it looks from a distance just like North Carolina red clay...
An aptly named overlook...
This overlook was called "scoria overlook"...We spent the whole day hiking around in the Park. We were close to the end when we got back to the car - the Man-Cub said I hope there are no more trails - we just did a couple more short ones.

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