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South Dakota Trip – Part Four
Our last day in South Dakota took us on a hike into a section of Badlands National Park. If you haven’t gone, you need to go. The combination of terrain is amazing and varied. It is both desolate and filled with life at the same time. Not quite desert and not quite prairie. It was…
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South Dakota Trip – Part Three
If I was going to subtitle this day of the trip, I would call it “Deadwood: Not What You Expect.” We split this day between a trip into Wyoming to Devils Tower and wandering the streets of Deadwood, South Dakota. Lots of car time and some light hiking to recover from the day before so…
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South Dakota Trip – Part Two
In our first full day in South Dakota we hiked up to Black Elk Peak, which is the highest point east of the Rockies. At it’s summit we are talking 7,244 feet, and we hiked it. It was glorious, as the pictures will show. That wasn’t the only part of our adventure though. We ended…
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South Dakota Trip – Part One
In 2019 we started something new. My good friends Felipe and Tanarra and I committed to hitting at least one national park every year for some hiking. This year we chose the Badlands and the Black Hills in South Dakota. If you haven’t been, you should make the trip, though I recommend flying and not…