After a night at Devil's Tower National Monument that started with the movie "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" and ended with a brilliant lightening show, we climbed on good county gravel back into the Bear Lodge Mountains. Day 5 of the 2023 Black Hills Bounty delivered many more miles climbing than descending, but strengthened legs steadily covered the good gravel roads to reach USFS Cook Lake campground for the evening. We celebrated our last night together around a roaring camp fire.
Here are a selection of images from Day 5, as captured by our riders. For prior photo galleries of the 2023 Black Hills Bounty, go to Day 0 - Gathering At Roubaix Lake; Day 1 - Mining Camp Ghosts Lead To Deadwood; Day 2 - Up Ski Trails & Down Rock Chutes; Day 3 - Active Recovery; Day 4 - Tower to Tower.
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| Devil's Tower National Monument. (image by Kevin Fox) |
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| KOA Campground at Devil's Tower National Monument. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Do we tell them it's uphill all day? (image by Kevin Fox) |
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| Devil's Tower National Monument. (image by Kevin Fox) |
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| Ready to roll. Devil's Tower National Monument. (image by Kevin Fox) |
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| Rolling out of the KOA at Devil's Tower National Monument. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Back on gravel, for the rest of the day. Lytle Creek Road, County Road 196. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Kevin Fox steaming up Lytle Creek Road, County Road 196. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Soaking in the scenery on Lytle Creek Road, County Road 196. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Craig Groseth and Ben Cooper are ready to climb. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Jeff Bloom and Peggy Waite-Bradley spin up Lytle Creek Road, County Road 196. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Jon Naaf leads the charge up Lytle Creek Road, County Road 196. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Entering Black Hills National Forest on USFS Secondary Road 847. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Now we're back in the forest on USFS Secondary Road 847. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Bad Asses. No doubt. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Better than Aspen Alley. A Birch Boulevard. USFS Secondary Road 847. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Still climbing into the Bear Lodge Mountains on USFS Secondary Road 847. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| USFS Secondary Road 847. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| USFS Secondary Road 847. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| USFS Primary Road 838. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| USFS Primary Road 838. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| USFS Primary Road 838. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| USFS Primary Road 838. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Cook Lake. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Cook Lake. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Cook Lake. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Campfire Master Ben Cooper. (image by Paul Brasby) |
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| Professor of Campfire Philosophy Jon Naaf. (image by Paul Brasby) |
Great pictures and looks to be an awesome group to ride with. Really enjoy your blog. Thanks for posting this.
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