Day 4 – You can’t go wrong with the Black Hills

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Sunrise at Horsethief Campground.

Well, I’m still posting (which means something entirely different in the horse world). It was a gorgeous day and you just can’t go wrong with the Black Hills. Not nearly as crowded as the last time Don and I were here when the COVID restrictions were first lifted. I don’t know if my pictures are spectacular but I’ll put a few up anyway. I bought a helmet camera for Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway that sadly didn’t get used for it’s intended purpose. So I tried it out today. The following shots are from Spearfish Canyon.

Spearfish Canyon is quite the tourist attraction although Don and I don’t know why. It is pretty but not any more so than all the other roads around here. I’ll try the helmet cam tomorrow in Custer State Park and if I almost hit a bison again, maybe I can get a picture before he gores me.

The Homestake Mining Company shaft ore hoist gear. It was in service from 1950 to 1994 and hoisted 7.4 million tons of rock from the 5000 level of the mine. It is 12 feet in diameter and weighs 16 tons. The ring in the background is a surviving segment of 100,000 gallon water tank that was built at the 4850 level in 1965 by Dr Ray Davis. He studied neutrinos for 3 decades using this underground tank and won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2002. The top of the old open mine is visible in the background. I posted pictures of it in the 2020 blog. The shear size of it is incredible.

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