2017 Appalachian Hike

This morning I heard a weather notification on my phone that rain was coming. FYI taking a tent down in the rain stinks. It was 4:30 and I was trying to decide my plan of action. I didn’t want to wake Ryan and I didn’t want to get out of my warm sleeping bag. So I layed there. Finally at 5:00 I heard Ryan getting up. We decided to tear down camp immediately. Good decision. It started raining as we drove off at 5:30.

We drove an unbelievably beautiful trip through the Big Horn National Forest.

Next stop was Devils Tower. Breathtaking.

Then we drove on to Custer State Park in the Black Hills. We ate supper at the Inn that Calvin Coolidge and Dwight D Eisenhower used.