Devil's Tower should be a familiar landscape. It is prominently featured in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Trivia. There is a Capital Region connection to that movie. Look it up. Chris Brunner did stories.
The tower is a National Monument. The Nation's first! There are hiking trails around it and people do climb it. We saw people coming down. We could not see anyone on the face today, though a Park Ranger told us 200 people registered to climb. You cannot climb in June. Native People's hold the monument in high regard and they conduct ceremonies during the month. Visitors are still permitted into the grounds but no one climbs in June. July 1 marks the resumption of climbing.
In Today's "Adin Request" section I am featuring Prairie Dogs. There are hundreds of them on one side of the base of the tower.
Fear not. I did not walk off any path. If you wait quietly the animals wander in your direction. They are curious. I suspect visitors feed them even though there are multiple, large signs asking people not to do so.
After that stop we plowed through Montana. We saw some gas and oil exploration but not very much. However, every ranch we passed maintained huge bee colonies. There might be a state incentive. Unfortunately, after we left Montana the windshield of our car was a mess. I am hoping we did not take out some of those bees, but that is likely naive. Speed limit on a back road? 75! 80 on the interstate.
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