Badlands National Park

While staying at the Badlands National Park,  we have done and seen a ton. The first night we went to a ranger talk where he showed us all of the constellations that were visable, I saw Saturn, mars, and the Andromeda Galaxy. (A ton of shooting stars.)  We went to the Minute man missile National Historic sight, where we got to tour the launch control modules of the missiles that were "hidden" underground during the cold war. After we finished learning about our national defenses during that time.  we drove through the badlands N.P. into Buffalo gap national grasslands and on over to Wind Cave National Park where we saw hundreds of Buffalo, wild donkeys, and a mother deer with her spotted fawn. We went for a guided hike in the caves about 200ft below the surface of the earth, where we got to view a rock formation called "boxwork" that is a very rare occurrence. (No pictures of that, just a tad to dark ) after we went into pine ridge reservation where the wounded knee massacre occured. 

This morning I went for a hike in the badlands, only a 7 mile hike or so ,but It was amazing, I got on the trail by 6:15 and saw the sjnrise over the badlands and burn through the morning fog. Around 25 big horn sheep blocked the trail as a patiently waited for the male big horn sheep to walk his herd of females and calfs to safety on the other side of the trail the howling of  3 or 4 coyotes filled the morning silence, it set my nerves on edge a little bit. The rocks and geological formations are nothing I have ever encountered.  It really Is beautiful. 
 

There is a lot of little details that I know I'm leaving out. But they will never fad from my memories.