Over the long Labor Day weekend I spent some time visiting my brother in South Dakota. It's always fun to get away for awhile and forget about work. Unfortunately I couldn't catch a cheap flight this time because the carrier (Sun Country) stopped flying to South Dakota. I checked other carriers and holy cow, the prices were basically double what I used to pay. So I gassed up the truck and headed west. While there my brother had a new hiking trail picked out for us to try. This one was no where near the challenge that Bear Butte presented, but Lookout Mountain (pictured above) was very close to his place and easy to access. There is a system of trails on this mountain and the trail we hiked was adjacent to the interstate, so road noise was always present. They also have cattle roaming the area as part of a restoration effort. I don't know what the cattle added to this area other than a number of 'obstacles' that we had to...
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