Credit Interested Party Larry Kurtz with this scoop: an old mining slag pile on the edge of Deadwood has collapsed into Whitewood Creek. Kurtz appears to have alerted local law enforcement and Game Fish and Parks officials about the slag…
Posts tagged as “Black Hills”
All sorts of South Dakota politicos are swarming the Black Hills this weekend for Monday's big buffalo round-up at Custer State Park. (Funniest photo-Tweet so far: Daugaard aide Tony Venhuizen comments on Lt. Gov. Michels's encounter with a donkey.) Alas,…
Two sources tell me that Canada's foundering Powertech Uranium is closing its Edgemont office. This rumor bubbles up just a couple weeks after Powertech closed its Colorado office, supposedly with the intent of focusing on its South Dakota uranium claims.…
Another weekend, another few fine hours out on the open road. Before it rained Saturday, I got out to see Old Highway 14 west of Spearfish. Roads with "Old" in their name get automatic bonus points. Belle Fourche is out…
Another Sunday, another trip up the canyon. This time I pedaled up to Savoy, turned left, and kept going. By my VW odometer (which, interestingly, runs 3% fast), the distance from my new Spearfish digs to Cheyenne Crossing is just…
I went biking and trail-running yesterday. I rode up Spearfish Canyon to the Iron Creek trailhead. I parked the bike by a tree and jogged uphill... and uphill... and past some cows... and more uphill. Even though I knew the…
We took a Saturday drive to the Crazy Horse Memorial yesterday. During our May visit, the mountain was framed by grim grey skies one afternoon, then completely shrouded in rain and fog for the rest of our trip. Not so…
Black Hills Power wants to build about 150 miles of new power line from Wyoming to South Dakota. The Teckla-Osage-Rapid City Transmission 230 kV Project would bring (probably) coal-fired power from the Teckla and Osage Substations in northeastern Wyoming to…