Friday, bicycling the George S. Mickelson trail	www.mickelsontrail.com	Ann	Sue & Bob	Keith & Ann

	Pulling out the binoculars...	To look at Crazy Horse off in the distance	Zoomed in 3x	Looking at people looking at Crazy Horse	Gorgeous scenery along the trail

	One of the many well-maintained bridges on the trail	Sue cruises by on the downhill...	followed by Bob	LOTS of deer along the trail	deer in the trees...

	in the center, looking left. Another one on the right side	In Hill City for lunch, Bob at Buffalo Bob's		Cute metal sculpture	Saturday, at the famous Wall Drug in Wall, SD

	First view of the Badlands - WOW			Keith left of the railing, Bob and Ann on the rail	Pictures cannot convey how massive this place is

			Keith and Bob have no fear of heights

	Looking up at Keith & Ann			Keith's pictures of our first view of the Badlands

		Wildlife!	Man they are camouflaged well	Lots of them	everywhere - sunning, eating, babies bouncing...

	More pictures from Keith of the big critters!

			Sign says it all.	Keith hiked up a hill for a better look

		Golden Eagle circling above us	Better picture from Keith of the eagle	Yellow mounds everywhere, here at least	A ways further up the road, looking back

	Color striations...wow	Keith	Ann	Keith taking photo of Ann	A road runs across the base of the far hills

	Waaaaaay down there is a person		Cool colors - Panorama Point I think	Keith	Ann

		Lots more pictures from Keith of the Badlands

	Hard to see, but it's a dirt/clay arch, on the Cliff Shelf Nature Trail	Looking down on the bridge where the arch is	Window Trail - new boardwalk going in	Beautiful cactus	on the Notch trail

		The "ladder" on the Notch trail.			Starts as a walk up, then gets steeper

		Back down the valley (north), ladder on the left		Read da sign

	Down the valley towards parking lot / trailhead (far middle), ladder on left	Lines in the rock	Lines of ?gypsum? in the ?limestone?	lines criss-crossing the valley walls

	Same line down the middle	No cairns here to mark the trail - unambiguous arrow!	At the Notch, gorgeous breeze	Sue & Bob	Keith posing

	Looking down at the Cliff Shelf trail		Keith on the top of the Notch

				Back in the hot valley (95F?)

	Back down the ladder

		At the end of the Door Trail		Getting sunburned	Rocks look like a camel head on the left

		Saturday got into Rushmore just as dusk was falling	There's a trail around the base	So you can get shots from a bunch of angles

				Wow.

			Getting dark but wow it's impressive

	Sunday, Wind Cave, looking up.	Looking down		Incredible boxwork everywhere

			Pictures do not do it justice

		Buffalo!	Off in the distance there was a big herd.	We stayed a safe distance away.	They are big critters!

				Lots of gorgeous flowers everywhere	Buffalo hoof-print

	Lots of prairie dogs too		Keith with a single buffalo in the background		More pretty flowers

	Buffalo right by the roadside		Another buffalo coming to join the first one	Hanging out in the shade	Half a mile down the road, another herd of buffalo

				And further down the road, another herd - right next to the road!	Two adults with a baby in the middle

		Yes they were this close to the road!			And this close to the car!

		Lots of baby buffalo	Antelope		Cathedral Spires trail on the Needles road.

	The spires from the road			A nice hiking trail.	Tree-slashes mark the trail

	Getting closer to the spires		Caught up with Bob. The trail just ends at the base of the spires.	Ann had a rock in her shoe	Ann at a baby rock spire

	Bob and Sue at "End of Trail".	More pretty flowers everywhere...	Keith & Ann	The only one I saw of this flower

	Narrow rock tunnel on the Needles road.	Sue's prius comng through