Custer, SD, Day 4, June 30

Started today with Custer State Park. More amazing rocks--mostly granite this time, with quite a lot of mica in it, so very sparkly. First a hike around Lake Sylvan. Beautiful, and only a small amount of rock scrambling needed. Then drove the Needles Scenic Byway. So glad the "Cathedral Spires" were unsuitable for carving or they would have put the presidents' heads here instead of Mt. Rushmore! 

Ended the afternoon with a horseback ride through some meadows and also a bit up into the Buckhorn mountains, through an aspen forest and past an old mica mine. Beautiful, and really nice to be on horseback. It's been a LONG time since we rode, so I hope we can move tomorrow.

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