With a high pressure firmly in place across traditional chase territory, we turned our attention to taking in some of the sights around the central and northern High Plains, including: Badlands National Park, Deadwood and Lead, SD mining towns and the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Devil's Tower National Monument, and the Big Horn Mountain Range. We also spent some time investigating the devastating
1972 Black Hills flash flood.
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| Unusual contrail formation by military aircraft (large transport or bomber-types) |
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| Mount Rushmore. |
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| Some of the usual suspects at Mount Rushmore. |
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| A large pile of rocks that looks like mashed potatoes. |
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| Trip 2 participants at Devil's. |
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| Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, SD |
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| High atop the Bighorns. |
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| The beautiful Badlands. |
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| Early-morning shower passes near Wall, SD. |
Conditions were (barely) supportive of severe convection near Cheyenne on the 17th. We intercepted a
severe storm that evening. Beyond the penny hail, the storm was not much to write home about. Despite the lack of thunderstorm ingredients across the Plains during this window of time, we made the best of it ...
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| Odd to chase with snow on the ground. |
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