We had our last sightseeing day in South Dakota yesterday and we went out on a high note! Or a very low, underground note if you want to get technical... Wind Cave in South Dakota! Very cool place, and not very friendly to us vertically gifted folk. Lots of hunching over and squeezing through tight places, but totally worth it! Of the caves we've explored so far, this is by far the best! They have one formation called Box-work, that is very VERY rare. of all the box-work in the world, 95% is located in Wind Cave!
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| A great shot of the Box-work formation on the ceiling of the cave! |
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| Wind cave! |
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| Another shot of Wind Cave! |
So here we are in the tiny town of Ten Sleep! Jenn already posted about our misadventures today, but we also did stop at one of the coolest places so far (in my opinion!) Get your mashed potatoes ready to sculpt with, because we were at Devil's Tower! The iconic geological formation from Close Encounters of the Third Kind! If you haven't seen that movie, I highly recommend it! It's out of this world (haha). The scope of Devil's Tower is completely different in person, the size of it is astounding, and the fact that people climb on it is mind boggling! The record for fastest ascent to the top is 18 minutes, and he did it without ANY equipment at all! It's around 600 feet tall and you can see four states from the top of it, even though it's kind of in the middle of Wyoming!
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