End of the Rope

Devil’s Tower
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The roadmap sets open to Wyoming, laying across your lap, gear piled into the car, you have escaped!
The western climbing vacation of your dreams has begun.
Devil’s Tower one of Wyoming’s most famed landmarks.
Devil’s Tower, also the nation’s first national monument, proclaimed in 1906.
Devil’s Tower is actually the core of a volcano, exposed after a million years of erosion.
The enormous tower rises 867 feet from its base and 1267 feet above the Belle Fouche River. At he base there is a paved walking path around the perimeter, a distance of one and a quarter mile.
This stump shaped monument played an important part in history as a landmark for the pioneers.
It can be seen for many, many miles away. Keeping the pioneers on the Oregon Trail.
It is a subject for legends and folklore among local American Indians. This is still a scared place for them today.
What the attraction is today, is rock climbing. Climber from all over the world come all summer long to climb this forbidding place.
As many climbers as there are there is still at lot of room to climb with out getting in the way of each other. There are as many observers as there are climbers. It is a sight to see. You can walk around the tower just watching the different climbers. The path is very nice around the tower with place to sit and rest if you want to.
The day we were there a girl had fallen and was killed. She stepped off the back of her rope. It is a tragic loss of life.