Devils Tower is composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge
Mountains, which is part of the Black Hills. It is in Crook County, near Hulett
and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche
River. It is 867 feet from summit to base.
Devils Tower was declared a United States National Monument
on September 24, 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
About 1% of the monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed
Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
~Wikipedia
These are climbers from the day we visited. No way! Not me!
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THAT is impressive!
ReplyDeleteScary and impressive.
ReplyDeletespectacular, but I would not want to climb :)
ReplyDeleteInteresting mountain, impressive and spectacular !
ReplyDeleteYou must get a great feeling of achievement on reaching the top as well as fabulous views. But I can only speculate because I won't be doing it!
ReplyDeleteHahaha ... no way, not me, too! I don't mind simply looking up at this beautiful sight.
ReplyDeleteWife and I will be stopping there in the next few days. Thanks for the post
ReplyDeleteI know you will enjoy your trip as much as we did. I Wyoming. My husband and I were married in Sundance at the Crook County Courthouse last year. If it were possible, we would be living there.
Delete...oh, doesn't that look like fun!
ReplyDeleteI can't even imagine climbing that thing. I get dizzy at the mere thought. I used to climb small mountains, really just tree-covered big bumps in the landscape...when I was young (under 16) and could climb up the steep streets of the town where we lived after that, but I no longer have the initiative or the strength, not to mention intestinal fortitude, to climb anything higher than...um, higher than...um, again. My bed, maybe?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your very scary (to this old lady) photographs of the Devil's Tower and those intrepid mountaineers.
Kay
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