“i just got a black hills map, and im pretty excited. whaddaya think of wind cave? good hiking there? man, i wanna see buffalo, and praire dogs, and wild rock spires, and more buffalo. if you ever decide to do a thru hike of the centennial trail, let me know. im your man. buffalo!”

“I AM SO READY!!!!!


8)”

“you are not. you dont even have your headlamp.”

“buffalo!”

“Yes I do!

8)”

“you forgot your soap and your towel.

buffalo!”

“So whay am I a Buffalo???

8)”

“Cause you smell like one”

“I think that I smell pretty good me-slef!

8p”

“I thought the hiking at Wind Cave was great. :-)

And also the












BUFFALO!!!!”

“Wind Cave is Awesome!

Lots of Buffalo in the Badlands and Wind Cave NP.

Prairie Dogs ROCK!!

We will be on the Centinnial Trail for a little while near Mt Rushmore. I want to do the whole thing someday. 111 miles.”

“BUFFALO!!!!!

Must see them!!!!

Cool!!!!

8)”

“Big ugly bastads.”

“so have you figured out the itinerary yet? ~salivating!”

“Ready to hike!!!!!!!!!

8)

I hope you can make it Evergreen!”

“buffalo!”

“That is going to be the word of the trip

BUFFALO

8)”

“Some of us are going to hook up this weekend and talk about the route we'll prolly go. Count on sleeping in the Tower on Harney Peak on June 15. After that, who knows.”

“Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8)”

“Buffalo are for looking not touching , CMB...

I hope I can make it too..Im not working at the produce stand anymore..I got me a 9-5 m-f job now..weekends free..wee heee”

“Thats so pimp evergreen!

8)”

“Awe go hug a Buffalo.”

“Walking Dude...My mom was looking at Ewkers webshot page from the Lost Cove trip..and she saw a pic of you..She thought you were some random guy walking thru camp..( pic title )
LMAO...”

“You can hug me..my ex always called me a buffalo.. =)”

“AND BUFFALO!”

“Camp at the primitive camp at Sage Creek in the Badlands and BUFFALO!!! wander right by your tent at night.”

“man i am so psyched. they dont have buffalo in iowa, do they?”

“I like to listen to the coyotes out there too.”

“man my favorite coyote-listening spot was ruined this weekend by hoardes of damn dirty humans. there were at least twenty frigging backpackers/canoers in an area no more than an acre. really annoyed me.”

“Yeah, that does tend to cut down the wildlife population”

“disgusting”

“And just to whet the appetite...

BUFFALO!!! At Custer State Park in SOUTH DAKOTA.”

“I've seem more Buffalo in the Badlands than in Custer and Wind Cave NP together.
I pulled up next to onein the truck while driving throught Badlands NP and couldn't believe the size. They are HUGE!! His eyes were higher up then the top of the truck. I bet he weighed 700 pounds.”

“Yup, camp at Sage Creek in the Badlands and the







BUFFALO!!!

will wander by your tent in the night. Going in to this campground, I had to stop for a couple right outside my Jeep window

For that photo I took, I was behind the Jeep hood, using big ole zoom lens.”

“pulled up next to one? what were you trying to do? place an order? parallel park? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!”

“You see one on the side of the road just standing there and see what you do.
It just seemed like a good idea at the time.

He just looked at me and said, "What the f**k do you want?"”

“we drove thru a herd of em when i was with my parents years ago. we went to devils tower and mt rushmore on that trip.”

“I climbed Devils Tower about 8 years ago. Nice View.”

“you climbed all the way to the top? kewl! i didnt know you were that much into climbing. do you remember what the route was rated? im betting around a 5.10? memorial day last year, i went to new river gorge and top-roped a 5.8 and a 5.10, but didnt finish two of the 5.9's i started. one because i had to do a traverse with no footholds (and i cant smear worth a damn), and the other one because i got my foot caught in a crack, and i expended so much energy getting it out i was too tired to go on.”

“i was visiting my parents today, and they informed me that we did indeed visit the badlands on a trip when i was a teen. i remember scrambling on some rocks, but i didnt remember that it was the badlands until they told me.”

“i just read the easiest route up devils is a 5.7. with a partner, i think i could do that. i think next year i am going to take a couple of the 2-day courses, a basic and intermediate course”

“I forget the name of the route we did. It was one of the easy ones. Not having climbed out there before we didn't want anything too hard. After that we climbed for about a week in the Black Hills. That was some of the best climbing routes I've ever done!”

“Oh yeah, one thing about all the Devils Tower routes. What ever the guide book says, add one more number of dificulty. A 9 is pretty much a 10a. A 10b is an 11b.
We thought our route seemed tougher than it was actually rated. Everybody else climbing out there said the same thing.

The top is about the size of a football field and it's pretty burly looking. The weeds on top are about like wire. The bugs are bad too. It's VERY hard finding the rap bolts to get back down. Lucky for us, another group came up another route and showed us where they were. We'd have never found them.

In summerizing, It was cool to have done it but it wasn't that fun.”

“This is going to be a great trip I can smell it.

8)”

“i can smell you.



















BUFFALO!”

“hey mike is allen or anybody else from nwihbc going?”

“"Lucky for us, another group came up another route and showed us where they were. We'd have never found them."

so basically, you might have still been up there to this day?”

“I think Allen might be going!

8)”

“buff AL lo!”