DAY NINE | Devil's Tower and Medicine Wheel

After three camping days in Black Hills, we finally set off for Cody,Wyoming. It is a long ride, but at the same time is full of surprise! We started out at 8am as usual. It is a nice day with genial sunshine and pretty breeze. Sad to say goodbye to black hills, but really looking forward to the Devil's Tower and Big Horn Medicine Wheel!

Devil's Tower

Around 1pm, we arrived at the amazing Devil's Tower. The 'tower' is upright, pointing to the sky and indeed standing-out when compared to its laigh surroundings. Thick gaps spread out on the rock body, which indeed reflects what one of the legends talks about the reason for such incredible formation---scratches from a giant bear. The Devil's Tower is generally bald, but the stripes with different depths makes it a facinating outlook. We were assigned a water color drawing of the 'tower' and it turned out we did a good job!

Watercolor Postcards

Our trip continued when we finished our lunch around 2pm. We Headed for the Big Horn Medicine Wheel which was built on Medicine Mountain with an elevation of almost 10,000 feet.

Medicine Wheel

It is a little chanllenge to get there with freezing blasts of wind and rocky path to climb. But it all paid off when we made it at last. It is a remarkable monument which reflects the unique Indian culture. We then did a 10-minute sketch and went down back to our vans and onto Cody.

                                                                              ----BY JIALI