Cradron, NE

[Johnd]

Got to Chadron NE Monday night. Went out Tuesday and found a nice small fairburn agate, 2 Indian scrapers (I'm not even looking for them). Beautiful weather, in the low 80's.

Wednesday, today, again in the low 80's, but wind was a constant 30 mph, wears you out. Again found a nice small fairburn, another scraper and a nice piece of fossilized wood. Looked at about a million rocks, all shapes, sizes and varieties. The rocks are from the errosion of the Rocky mountains and the various uplifts of the Black Hills.

Good news for tomorrow slight rain, good for looking at rocks. Bad news rain will be mixed with the snow - just so it doesn't stick and cover the rocks.

[Johnd]

No snow today, but high of 35 and wind at about 15 mph steady. 1 agate, 2 Indian scrapers.

Leaving for Custer, SD in the am, no computers there.
But the good news if they didn't get snow - about 200
pegmatite mines in the area - you can even get into some of them. Crazy horse and the 4 presidents are all nearby, can you name the 4 presidents carved on the mountain?

[41dave]

well....encyclopedia.com tells me...Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy. hahahaha here's more on it....sorry..crunch time on exams....I felt they need to cheat on this to get it out of the way.

1,278 acres (518 hectares), SW S.Dak., in the Black Hills; est. 1925, dedicated 1927. There, carved on the face of the mountain and visible for 60 mi (97 km), are the enormous (60 ft/18.3 m high) heads of four U.S. presidents—Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. The sculpture was designed by Gutzon Borglum , who had even more ambitious plans for the site. These were abandoned when he died (1941), and the work was finished later that year by his son Lincoln. In all, it took 14 years to complete the figures, which during the summer are visited by more than 20,000 tourists daily