6/27/28 - So what happened in Cody? A visit to the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum where western adventure history took us. Focusing around Bill Cody, the plains indians, elaborate history of guns and rifles, the Yellowstone experience and wonderful western art in photos, tapestry, paintings and bronze.
6/29 - Golf at Olive Glen, the #3 course in the state per Golf Mag and it wasn't a disappointment. The evening took us to a cowboy music review at the old Cody Theater run by Dan Miller and the Empty Saddle Band. Very entertaining and a must see in our book.
6/30 - Up to Lovell then N into the Big Horn Canyon to search for wild horses and bighorn sheep. This National Forest area if vast with very little impact by people. We spent 5 hours immersed in landscape and watching 2 groups of wild horses & sheep stop what little traffic was there for whatever time you wanted to spend watching. We took way too many photos to put on this blog but will include ones we really liked in the photo end of this blog. At the Big Horn Ranger Station we met the local park geologist who spent an hour with us explaining the age of the canyon and mining ventures around the area, including Bentonite, which we use to clarify some of our wines. On the way out of the canyon we could see big lightning and dark clouds and decided to turn on the AM radio and heard a national weather service warning for the direction we'd planned to take back to camp. Wisely, we took another route! That was a whopper of a T-storm with winds gusting at 40mph. Took in the Cody Night Rodeo to finish the day.
7/1 - Off to Custer, SD through Greybull on Hwy 14, up a 7% grade for 20 miles over Granite Pass at 9,000 ft. with lots of awesome scenery. Picniced at the Burgess Jct. Ranger Station watching Elk graze on the hillside then travelled 8 miles at 8% down. Whew, glad to be off that mountain!
7/2 - Here we are in Custer, SD late and found our accomodations to be more like camping than beeing in a K-mart parking lot. Glad we're here for 7 days.
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