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This wonderful creature is reportedly a retired rodeo bull. He is spending his retirement in a pasture that overlooks Devil's Tower National Monument. Or maybe I should say the Devils Tower overlooks him...
Love his asymmetrical horns... Hated that he was plagued by flies (the little black spots)...
Details of the long vertical rocks at Devils Tower National Monument in eastern Wyoming.
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Bunnies at Frank's place. Frank Sanders is a Yosemite climber who now guides in the area and is a local icon.
A volcanic erupted rock in Wyoming. This rock was made famous by Steven Spielberg 70's film-Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
During our trip to the Black Hills we passed by Devil's Tower. Devil's Tower is a volcanic plug - the volcano surrounding it had eroded away. Now it stands by itself on the plains of eastern Wyoming and it's a striking sight.
Bear Lodge Butte, known more commonly as Devil's Tower, is the core of an extinct ancient volcano, and is sacred to the many indigenous tribes of the surrounding region, who have revered it as a sacred site for millennia. The butte stands 867 feet (264 meters) tall, and rises 1,267 feet (386 meters) atop a stone outcrop above the adjacent Belle Fourche River. The butte became a National Monument in 1906, owing to its significance as a natural geologic formation, but unfortunately, this did not include the similar, though less eroded, Missouri Buttes to the northwest.
The butte is a dramatic rock formation that rises out of the surrounding landscape and is visible from miles away. Surrounded by a bluff made of sedimentary rock, the butte towers over the grassy lowlands along the Belle Fourche River, today home to wildlife, including a colony of prairie dogs. The butte stands out among the surrounding lowlands, being visible from roadways miles away, enticing tourists to stop at pull-outs to take photos and marvel at the majesty of the butte.
The butte is known to the local indigenous tribes as the "Bear's House" or "Bear Lodge," but was given the name "Devil's Tower" by a European-American visitor to the area, who misinterpreted the indigenous names of the butte. There have been ongoing efforts since the early 21st Century to change the name back to "Bear Lodge," but these have been opposed by government officials due to fears of decreased tourism.
Devil's Tower National Monument, WY
This is a severe crop from the second comment shot of "Devil's Tower", but I thought it would be interesting to see the climbers and provide a little scale as to the size of the formation. It might be worth a look at the "ALL SIZES" for a bit larger look.
See the photo before this one for all details. Also check the following link:
wikitravel.org/en/Devils_Tower_National_Monument#History
F2_100_0634, 29 Jul 04