Dad
& I went there in the summer of '99, from the east side, up the Red
Grade.
That
way you can drive across the top of the Big Horns and enjoy all the scenery
for
60 miles. Stop at Burgess Junction (37 miles from the bottom of the Red
Grade)
for
food, gas and drink. Great Trip! As you motor west you will see a
Radome (57 miles
to
here), this is used for jets from San Fran. to Chicago. Leave it
alone...ha...ha.
4-23-06
On the way up, on the Red Grade, east side.
Go in the spring, the flowers are beautiful!
At the top of the Red grade looking east.
You might see a car drive by, but
I doubt it unless you stay for quite a while.
Almost to the Medicine Wheel,
this is the view of the area to the north. The
Wheel is about 3 miles on a dirt road.
As far
as a sacred site goes, before it was rediscovered a hundred years ago or
so, the native
people didn't
even know about it, nor do they know which tribe built this carin.
The site
speaks for itself, there is no incentive needed for speaking in hushed
tones around here.
It's a awe inspring
& wondrous view. Visionquests?, but people do pray here! Though
I wonder how
the builders
of the site would have felt about the 10,000 little rags tied on an 8'
chain link fence,
that surrounds
the wheel. Personally, I hated it!! There is a ranger post near the
Wheel.
Look up Dr.
Eddy's work on this site. There is a Google Earth placemark for this site.
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