Day 5 – From Where I Sit… the View is Amazing!

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Had a great day of riding and the helmet cam worked well. It is mounted on the chin bar of my helmet with a remote located within reach of my thumb. I did manage to get some good shots of those pigtail bridges on Iron Mountain Road that eluded me last time. The day started with Needles Highway….

Things get a little tight on Needles, but what an incredible road.
Nearly every tunnel is single lane and there’s always people taking pictures at the end 😂

Custer State Park and the wildlife loop is a must do. The bison herd was absolutely huge and close to the road. I did not however meet one in the middle of the road in a blind curve this time.

This wasn’t quite all of them but was all I could fit on the camera. Had to be hundreds.
An early sign of the encroaching weather.
Fun little gravel road up to a stone fire tower. It was a bit nerve-racking and not for everyone or every kind of bike. Don wasn’t with me on his big ST1300. Oops, looks like I still have a turn signal on by the green light on the dash.
Amazing view but these long distance vistas always disappoint in photos.

Well, this is a lot of pictures. I’ll save Iron Mountain Road and the pigtail bridges for tomorrow. And it’s not always sunny in the Black Hills. Got a good thunderstorm raging right now. I am waiting it out in the little laundry room at the campground. Don finished before me and headed to the tent before it started pouring. Hopefully tomorrow will be better as we move on to Badlands National Park.

Turned out to be an impressive storm with lots of lightning. Not as high as we were going to be in Colorado, but this camp is still over 4,000 feet in elevation.

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