Wyoming - where wilderness is all encompassing

Wyoming is the most sparsely populated state and wilderness is its major draw card.  Its northwestern corner is home to the two magnificent national parks of Yellowstone and Grand Teton.  The Bighorn Mountains in the north-central of Wyoming are also pretty awesome.  We free camped at the spot below with many other local resident campers who came for the weekend.

Andrew took these photos below on his 20km hike in the Bighorn Mountains.

The Devil’s Tower in the Black Hills rises a dramatic 1,267 ft above the Belle Fourche River Valley.  It is a nearly vertical monolith.  We saw a similar, much smaller version of such an igneous (hardened magna) intrusion back in California, the Devil's Postpile.  

Close Encounters of the Third Kind was filmed here in 1978.

The giant vertical columns.

It is a popular rock climbing site with numerous hardy climbers up its sheer gigantic columns.