We left Pierre the morning of the 1st and drove to Bismark, ND andstayed the night. We left the nect morning and made it to TRNP and stayed in the Badands of North Dakota. We enjoyed the park very much, wild horses, buffalo wandered around the park. Into our campsite in the Buffalos case. We all went hiking and had a great time [View Full Entry]

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Hey, we're in North Dakota. How many of you have ever said that? Hwy 85 north from Belle Fourche, SD, to I-94 in North Dakota is a 175-mile, mostly straight road with rolling prairie on either side from horizon to horizon, broken occasionally by buttes or rocky outcroppings. There are few trees, fewer houses, lots of cattle, sheep, some horses, and a good number of pronghorn antelope. The landscape is dotted now and then with big rolls of hay and the odd oil well pumping away. However, once you get into ND, there are more cultivated fields. We went to [View Full Entry]

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Spent the day touring the South and North Units of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Perfect skies and moderate temp. A little windy, but that kept things comfortable. With gas prices now at $3.99/gallon, it's expensive to travel much of anywhere and I was itching to go somewhere, so headed to the western side of my state of North Dakota to see some of our beautiful landscape. Ended up being a great day to tour the Park. We've had plenty of rain recently so everything is greening up well. Made the colors in the Badlands start to pop out. With some [View Full Entry]

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park is one of the prettiest places in North Dakota. I really had never gone to take photos of it during the winter months so with a nice, warm day of mid 40s on the forecast, I headed out to see what I could get for photos when there was a little snow still on the ground. During this time of year, many of the roads are closed in the Park because of ice and snow when you get into the very steep parts of the Park. However, the lower area is all open and accessible which still [View Full Entry]

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Obfuscator writes: We woke up comfortably on our hillside perch in TRNP - North. Snug as a bug and so forth. As usual, we needed to dry some of our gear. This is partly just an issue of morning dew, and partly an issue of condensation from our own breath on the interior. The moral of that story is basically that Gortex keeps moisture off you quite well, but it also retains some on the inside as well. Anyway, while we did that, we had some delicious shakes from the MRE’s, and then set off to explore some of the surrounding [View Full Entry]

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Posted by: Onaxthiel: The morning came suddenly, as if god had suddenly turned the lights on outside the bags. We crawled out, still shivering, to witness an odd set of sights. A lone buffalo grazed on our butte. The valleys around us were filled with morning mist. On the southern horizon, a host of hot air balloons rose slowly into the sky. The Medora balloon launch was underway. We snapped photos of all this while waiting for our bags to dry off from the morning dew. BOB (Obfuscator adds: BOB stands for big orange ball, a gigantic nuclear furnace, a de-rangers [View Full Entry]

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Posted by: Onaxthiel: We waited for the morning drizzle to pass before we went back to the south unit of Teddy Roosevelt national park. Instead of the cute, helpful ranger we had the first day, we had a young lady who projected an antipathy one step short of hostility towards us when we asked for a backcountry camping permit. I am not sure if this was because she didn’t think we were capable of hiking our planned route after a hard rain or if she just had a bad morning. Once she had our paperwork, we were off on the drive [View Full Entry]

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From Glentana we set out across the Badlands (early French explorers named this area “mauvais terres a traverse”)- more Big Sky Montana countryside and into North Dakota. The journey was long and hot; we have had temperatures into the 100’s for several days now, which is not very comfortable! If the heat continues we will have to limit our riding hours to the mornings only, which will delay our schedule. Our destination for the evening of 7th August was the Southern end of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park - this was a real treat. The park is dedicated to the 26th [View Full Entry]

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Had the chance today to tour both the North and South Units of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park located in western North Dakota. North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a true hidden gem that doesn't get the notice that its more popular cousin "Badlands National Park" in South Dakota gets. Having seen the each state's version of the Badlands, they are quite distinct from each other. Where South Dakota's Badlands have vivid oranges, beiges and pinks and a more arid look to them, North Dakota's are much greener with pinks, beiges and even some blue hues to them. North Dakota [View Full Entry]

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Here's my second blog post on Theodore Roosevelt National Park located in western North Dakota. This post is about the South Unit of the Park. I didn't have a lot of time today, but was able to do the Scenic Loop through the South Unit of the Park. The South Unit is much, much bigger than the North Unit of the Park with over 46,000 acres in this Unit. The South Unit also has a much bigger 36 mile scenic loop through the Park as compared to the North. Lots and lots of wildlife. I saw several wild horses, lots of [View Full Entry]

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