Black Hills Tour Training

As part of our orientation, our boss Nancy took 4 of us (John, myself, & two other seasonal rangers) on a 12 hour tour of the Black Hills.  We traveled to Jewel Cave National Park, Wind Cave National Park, (no cave tours but met supers) & Mount Rushmore National Park.  We even went past Custer State Park.  We saw bison and mountain goats. We traveled through Rapid City, SD and then back through Spearfish, SD into Wyoming and the tower - Black Hills 101 - condensed version.  Emma was back at the rig with her legs crossed but was patient!  No wet spot!  What a day!!


Mountain goat on our walk in Mt Rushmore NP.

This carving in the mountains is huge.  The faces are 20 stories high.  The eyes are 11 feet across!
Note the huge pile of rubble beneath.



Nancy, our supervisor, is standing right in front of the camera in white and Bev, a seasonal here at the tower, is in purple.  John is the one in red.  We had a private ranger tour but people stopped to listen to her also.