Badlands II

I was bent on backpacking for a few days so I packed up and headed into the wilderness. There is no water to drink out there so you have to pack all you will need in with you. They have streams, but they are so silted, and apparently the silt is ionized or something, so it stays suspended in the water. The best part is that unlike the parks on the East coast, there are no trails, and virtually no other hikers, you basically just head out and make your own path. I had a great hike, walked through a few prairie dog towns, saw some cacti, and lots of traces of Bison. Here are some of the pictures.....

After about three hours of lugging around almost 3 gallons of water, I realized that with a day pack I could cover twice as much ground in the same time and that I was killing myself with a heavy pack only because I felt like camping. Realizing that there was much more to see in the park, and that I wasn't even in the best part I headed back.Sitting on the ground unloading my bag, I saw this crazy reflection on the side of the van and took a picture....