June 27, 2011

Devil's Tower





Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Lodge”) is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level. 


 
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (5.45 km2). In recent years about 1% of the Monument's 400,000 annual visitors climb Devils Tower, mostly through traditional climbing techniques. More after the break...


Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Lodge”) is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.


 
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.  


The Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (5.45 km2).
 
 
In recent years about 1% of the Monument's 400,000 annual visitor climb Devil's Tower, mostly through traditional climbing techniques. 
 
 
 
 


6 comments:

  1. rebe: very adventurous

    papa mifz: bukan nama je...tempat pun dah takut

    azhan: hmm tak penahnya nak panjat2 gunung ni..adalah kot cara depa

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  2. It seems you are good in english writing..I didn't expect that Golden Rose has blog with english writing... Really good to have readers from a blogger like you..even your blog has so much good information, tq for visiting my blog :)


    see u again :)

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  3. thank u so much fasihah...m also still learning....sometime hav to refer to my friends

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