Devil’s Tower National Monument
Onward to the West! We headed up I-90 and drove through Deadwood just to see it on our way to Devil’s Tower. We spent the night at the KOA just outside the park where they had filmed the movie Close Encounter of the Third Kind! The next morning we hiked the big loop around the tower. It was pretty amazing and we both said we wanted to come back and climb it one day. There were a lot of climbers spread across the tower making their ascents on the 867-foot geologic wonder.
Prayer cloths left by Native Americans, who have regarded the tower as a spiritual, sacred place for centuries 
Good shot for representation of scale – person vs. size of column 
Two words: BAD. ASS. 
Remnants of original wooden peg ladder built by a couple of local ranchers in 1893 – they were the first ones to ascend all the way to the top! 
