One of our goals for this summer (spring/summer/fall) is to ride the entire 109-mile Mickelson Trail as a family. If we complete this project we’ll actually ride it twice, since we take one vehicle and ride out and back each time.
Through a series of events on Sunday afternoon, April 18, we ended up in Edgemont and started riding north. We were going to ride somewhere closer to Hill City, but scattered thunderstorms kept pushing us south, and we finally decided to just drive to Edgemont and get it over with! As you can see in these pictures, the far southern Black Hills are not as desolate as some think they are, despite rattlesnakes, poison ivy, and lonely canyons.
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Mickelson Trail – Edgemont to Chilson Bridge: 6.74 miles (13.47 miles total), 193 feet of climbing.
(I took some or most of the photos while I was riding, so cut me a little slack on the quality of these images!)
Oh, and I’m trying a relatively new feature on WordPress.com that lets me display these 30 photos as a slideshow – no more scrolling down a long post of photos. Send some feedback my way if you like or dislike the new way to handle photos on this blog.
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