Canyon Ranch, Wyoming

After three weeks off climbing in Yosemite, two days of work was too much (ha,ha), so I went on vacation again. This time Sage and I went to her Mother’s and Step Father’s ranch outside of Sheridan Wyoming. The town is small and the land looks as it did when Native Americans and buffalo occupied the region. On the way down I wanted to stop at the Battle of Little Big Horn National Monument. The battlefield is a stones throw from the interstate so it was a short detour.

Cheyenne headstone

The experience was an impressionable one. The skies were gray and the mood somber. We drove through the rolling hills passing headstones and reading signs reliving the battle. Just over 200 US soldiers stood against 7,000 Native Americans. Every US soldier was killed and about 87 Native Americans died.