Sheep Mountain 7-28-12 (Sleeping Indian)

An infamous mountain to climb here in Jackson is Sheep Mountain, known to locals as Sleeping Indian. Honestly why not, who would pass up a chance to sit on top on a well known land mark. There are two trails to summit Sheep Mountain, one from the Flat Creek Trail Head (7 miles round trip) from the National Elk Refuge, and the other from Red Hill campground just past Slide Lake (11 miles round trip). We chose the shorter of the two routes. We didn't make it to the summit, we only went on for a few miles until we passed Flat Creek Ranch. It was getting cloudy and looked like rain, and the top of a mountain is not where I would choose to be so we turned back

Sheep Mountain (Sleeping Indian)

Flat Creek

Away we go

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Devils Tower 3-30-12

Over Spring Break We went to Gillette to visit my Brother. As always we try to sneak in a visit to a National Park, Devil's Tower however is a National Monument, but that's just splitting hairs if you ask me. It is as remarkable as it would seem, and here I learned that Ponderosa Pine trees smell like vanilla ice cream. 

Devils Tower was originally called Bears Lodge.

Lucy ran ahead of all of us on the trail to the left,
Kevin had to drop the back pack and chase after her.
She earned the ride back to the fork.