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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

National Monument at Devils Tower


Devils Tower is the National Monument featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Spielberg several years ago. We camped just below the tower for two days while the weekly riders left from week two and we were joined by week three riders. The Tower is 900 feet high, 1000 feet across at the base and 200 feet across at he top. The structure was formed when the earth around it eroded away. Clouds hide the top of the tower frequently. Unlike my first ride across the USA, our KOA campground was quite green this time. In 2001 it was all brown from a severe drought.

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