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Location Crook County, Wyoming, USA
Nearest city Hulett, Wyoming
Coordinates: 44°35′25″N by 104°42′55″W
Area1,346.91 acres (5.45 km2)
EstablishedSeptember 24, 1906
Visitors386,558 (in 2004)
Governing body National Park Service
Along the road from Mt. Rushmore to Yellowstone we passed by Devil's Tower, a sedimentary monolith rising more than 1,200 ft above the surrounding area.
Remember when you used to be able to tag parts of photos on Flickr? If I could do that, I would point out that there are at least five climbers toward the left half of this face. You can zoom in and find them.
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The Devil's Chimney is a limestone rock formation that stands above a disused quarry on Leckhampton Hill, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
It is named for its peculiar shape, that of a crooked and twisted chimney rising from the ground. It is a local landmark, but its origins are uncertain. In 1926 it survived an earthquake, but not without a few cracks. In 1985 it was repaired and protected from further erosion.
Legend holds that the Devil's Chimney is the chimney of the Devil's dwelling deep beneath the ground. Supposedly the Devil, provoked by the many Christian churches of the area, would sit atop Leckhampton Hill and hurl stones at Sunday churchgoers. However the stones were turned back on him, driving him beneath the ground and trapping him there so he could not further harass the villagers. Now he uses the mass of stones as his chimney to let free the smokes of hell.
In the past, when the “chimney” was accessible, visitors would leave a coin on top of the rock as payment to the Devil in exchange for his staying in his underground home and not leaving to create mischief and spread evil in the local area.
The 19th-century geologist S. Buckman suggested that the strange shape of the Devil's Chimney could be put down to differential erosion, involving the softer outer rock being worn away to leave only the inner harder rock remaining. However, this would require some explanation of why there was a column of harder rock there in the first place.
The truth is probably that the Devil's Chimney was left behind by 18th-century quarry workers, who quarried around it as a joke.
© Mike Broome 2022
Devils Dyke, Sussex in May 2003 on a trip to see the Earl Marshall the Duke of Norfolk at Arundal Castle.
The senior Catholic in the country,controller of all regal seals symbols and coats of arms and and and and wait for this ...the past duke served in the Irish Guards with my dad....needless to say we didn't see the Duke that day.
During World War II the San Francisco Bay Area has been described as “a giant cannon aimed at the Pacific.” These concrete bunkers along Devil’s Slide (south of Pacifica along Highway 1) are all that remains of a long-retired guard to the western United States.
The famous Devil's Teeth mountains in Senja (Okshornan) under cloud at sunset. I shot this from near Ersfjord beach as the viewpoint up the coast was closed off for building works. The rocky shoreline still provided a good foreground.
American Indian legends tell of six Sioux girls who were picking flowers when they were chased by bears. Feeling sorry for them, the Great Spirit raised the ground beneath the girls. The bears tried to climb the rock, but fell off, leaving their scratch marks on the sides.
Another version tells of how two Sioux boys wandered far from their village when Mato the bear, a huge creature that had claws the size of teepee poles, spotted them, and wanted to eat them for breakfast. He was almost upon them when the boys prayed to Wakan Tanka the Creator to help them. They rose up on a huge rock, while Mato tried to get up from every side, leaving huge scratch marks as he did. Finally, he sauntered off, disappointed and discouraged. Wanblee, the eagle, helped the boys off the rock and back to their village.
Cruise aboard Ponant Le Soleal: The Hell of Devil's Island
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Devils Tower National Monument, September 2003
As we were hiking around Devils Tower, we saw a group of climbers ascending Devils Tower. The view at the top must be spectacular.
Devil's Oven contains a secret cave where the famous pirate Bill Johnston hid after sinking the Sir Robert Peel.
Devil Falls is a 20' tall, two tiered waterfall on Finney Creek that finishes with a plunge into a gorgeous, deep pool of green water.
Devils Tower (Lakota: Matȟó Thípila ("Bear Lodge") or Ptehé Ǧí ("Brown Buffalo Horn") (Arapaho: Wox Niiinon) is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres.
In recent years, about 1% of the Monument's 400,000 annual visitors climb Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
The information above comes from Wikipedia:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower