#devils tower
A pair of Boeing B-1B Lancers of the 28th BW/37th BS Tigers and the 28th BW/34th BS T-Birds fly past Devil’s Tower National Monument, Wyoming during a training sortie.
The B-1 was designed to perform exceptionally well at low-level missions.
(Photo by Ted Carlson/Fotodynamics.com)
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Devils Tower
State: Wyoming
- 5,112 ft high
- According to the Native American tribes of the Kiowa and Lakota, a group of girls went out to play and were spotted by several giant bears, who began to chase them. In an effort to escape the bears, the girls climbed atop a rock, fell to their knees, and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them. Hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit made the rock rise from the ground towards the heavens so that the bears could not reach the girls. The bears, in an effort to climb the rock, left deep claw marks in the sides, which had become too steep to climb. Those are the marks which appear today on the sides of Devils Tower. When the girls reached the sky, they were turned into the stars of the Pleiades
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
A stunning sight in every season, Devils Tower National Monument-Official NPS site rises above the rolling grasslands in eastern Wyoming like a sentinel. Northern Plains Tribes have lived and held ceremonies near this remarkable geologic formation for thousands of years. The rock remains of an ancient volcano, the majestic tower was called “Bear’s Lodge” and “Bear’s Tipi” by the Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crow and Lakota tribes. Made famous in the 1977 movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” the monument holds an undeniable attraction to many people. Photo courtesy of John Steitz.
I stopped at devils tower on the Black Hills motorcycle run. Truly a magnificent wonder of nature. Lots of prairie dogs all over the place as well
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