Crazy Horse, SD

We made our way to the Black Hills of South Dakota where a pine forest rises up from what seems to be an endless prairie.  We started our ride today from Crazy Horse where a monument to Crazy Horse is being carved into a mountain....

When completed it will look like this...
Wow!

We road on the George Mickelson Trail that goes from Deadwood to Edgemont, SD...
This trail bisects the Black Forest National Forest and goes through a handful of touristy towns.

 We spent the ride in the forest...
Going through tunnels...
And over lots of bridges...


We learned that the Black Hills are some of the oldest exposed rocks in the world ...
Over Two Billion years old!!!!
Our out and back was much hillier than we thought...

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