107°!!! So, again, no hiking for me. Instead, I explored the South Unit from Addie, stopping at all of the signed areas on the scenic route. Very intriguing: the many prairie dog towns with their dirt mounds and prairie dogs poking their heads out. Also interesting: mama and baby bisons. In Yellowstone, the single bisons walking on the road were males who are banned from hanging out with the moms and babies. Today I saw herds of mamas and babies slowly crossing the road.
After ICE CREAM and a nap in air conditioned Addie, I attended the amphitheater production is the Medora Musical, a loose telling of the story of Teddy Roosevelt, Americana songs, and a comedian/juggler. In April, a wildfire almost destroyed the amphitheater!
Two prairie dogs – zoomed in and cropped…
The line of mamas and babies heading toward the road.
Looking out of Addie’s window.
A bison was here.
Buttes. I’m learning that mountains are created when the earth pushes up land masses, and buttes are formed when water and wind erode what is around the land mass. Im still trying to figure out how canyons fit into this story…The walls and upward cropping a of the Grand Canyon or Bryce Canyon, can those also be called buttes?
I think the variegation is beautiful.
More gorgeous formations.
From above the amphitheater. Hard to see but there are two elk on the ridge just to the right of the Medora sign. Also on the far right, it’s possible to see where the wildfire stopped.
I wonder if they thought about other meanings for their rainbow colors… This is the first state I’ve visited with ardent anti-maskers and, I assume, anti-vaxxers.
