Day 3 of our trip to South Dakota took us to the "Badlands" a large expanse (244,000 acres) of prairie interspersed with phantasmagorical rock formations. Apparently, the Lakota natives already called it
" "bad lands" and the early French trappers called "les mauvaises terres a traverser," due its unusually harsh living environment.
Jim crossing a small mount leading to the higher butte plateau.
Extraordinary beautiful, arid and desolate landscape. We were not prepared for a full hike but I did make it up to the upper plateau and found myself alone in the middle of a moonlike landscape and surrounded by an eerie silence, except for an occasion breeze.
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