{"id":1283,"date":"2010-09-08T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T06:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2010-09-08T23:58:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T06:58:26","slug":"badlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/badlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Badlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here are the images from our road trip to the Badlands. We arrived at the Cedar Pass cabins after dark. I climbed one of the mounds and made this image of the cabins.<\/p>\n

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Cedar Pass Cabins At Night<\/p><\/div>\n

The next morning I woke up just before sunrise and headed towards Cedar Pass. The rising sun picked out the texture of the Badlands peaks.<\/p>\n

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Badlands Peaks<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is another image of the distant peak.<\/p>\n

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Badlands Sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of days later, I was up before sunrise and made my way to the trails in the “Door” area. The low sun grazed the nooks and crannies on this mound.<\/p>\n

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Badlands Sunrise At The Door<\/p><\/div>\n

Near the base of the peaks are elevated mounds covered with grass. As one walks through the prairie grasses, the grasshoppers fly out when disturbed.<\/p>\n

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Badlands Grasslands<\/p><\/div>\n

These mounds are eroded by the action of water at the rate of about an inch per year. This mound is about 5 feet in height.<\/p>\n

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Badlands Sculptures<\/p><\/div>\n

That rounds out the road trip images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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