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Saturday in the Black Hills

Saturday, August 12, 2017

     Decided that we would just head out and explore the Black Hills to kind of see what we wanted to do and how many bikers were still around. First stop was Hill City, and even though it was still early, lots of bikers. I should explain for those who might not be aware, the past 10 days have been The Sturgis Harley Rally (77 annual). There are literally 100,000 bikers in and around the entire Black Hills.
     After walking around Hill City, we drove over to Crazy Horse Monument, but didn't go in. Then it was on to Custer. Found a few things that were different, but certainly much that we remembered. One of the best was, The Purple Pie Place. Had two very large and delicious pieces of Strawberry-Rhubarb.
     Drove up to Sylvan Lake and went by the cabin. It didn't appear that anyone was at the cabin, but we decided to move on. We drove up over the Needles Highway and around Custer State Park. On the upper end of the Needles we saw two mountain goats, I have never seen goats this close to the cabin.
     The Hills were very green and it appears that there has been plenty of rain. The temperatures while we have been here are really nice; high in the low 70's.
     We finished our trip through the Hills by going past Mt. Rushmore. Didn't go into the monument as the lines to just get to the gate was backed up in three lines. Stopped at a few over looks and took a few photos.
Bikers lined up on the street in Hill City
Sculpture of Hose outside of Hill City shop
Four of the sculptures of Buffalo in Custer 
                                      
                                                                          Mountain Goats 


                                                                           The Spires 
Mt. Rushmore and Bikers
George

     

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