Sun Sep 18 Day 20 slight cloud then cleared to sunny & warm
We drove to the Crazy Horse Memorial site. These large carvings are quite impressive; pictures can’t really convey the scope or size. Spent a while looking at the orientation movie & exhibits, models etc, about the project. We had lunch in the Laughing Water Restaurant there. The information on amount of rock removed, time working on it etc are huge figures. After quite a while there we returned to Mt Rushmore, (the entrance parking ticket is good for 2 days), to hear a ranger talk on the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, at his studio where he had a 1 twelfth size model from which he took measurements to duplicate on the mountain. 1 inch on the model was 1 foot on the mountain, the heads on the mountain range from 40 to 60 feet high. Then we went on the Ranger Walk on the Presidents Trail which went to the base of the mountain so you were looking straight up almost to the figures. The ranger walks & Ranger talks really make these places come alive. Back home to Sheridan Lake camp site for the night.
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