Day 31: Mt.Rushmore

We started out the day bright and sunny. We drove up to Mt. Rushmore. Once we got there we went on a Ranger led walk and watched a movie on the creation of Mt. Rushmore. It is really as magnificent as all the pictures you have seen. As we were leaving Ed turned to me and said, "did you notice that there were no kids here?" and I said did you notice that we were the youngest people here?

After Mt. Rushmore we decided to take a drive behind the mountain and what do you know but there were several geocaches! So we took several mini hikes. Then we did this loop drive to see the Crazy Horse Memorial which wasn't much of anything. Below is a picture of what it looks like and what it was suppose to look like if it had been finished.

Then onto Custer State Park and the Needles Hwy. Along the road we saw several granite needles and had tons of animal sightings. We saw bison, mountain goats, mountain sheep and deer.

I think we went through at least 8 granite tunnels today.

On the way back to our hotel all of a sudden the sky clouded up and it began to pour buckets of rain on us. We sure don't have storms like this in California.

Once we got back to the hotel it became even more vicious. The wind picked up there was lighting and thunder and the rain got worse. The parking lot of our hotel became a river. The TV started broadcasting this horrible sound. It was quite exciting. We were worried about driving through Colorado tomorrow with all the fires they have been having lately but I guess that problem was solved. (hopefully they got this storm too)

Total Geocaches this trip 147

Earthcaches 5