The Black Hills Travel Blog

Archives for the ‘Discoveries’ Category

Capturing History at Mount Rushmore

By Joe Rainboth • May 18th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

This morning I had the incredible opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at a remarkable project that’s taking place right now at Mount Rushmore National Memorial…



Highway Maintenance – Black Hills style

By Joe Rainboth • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

Several years ago – out in Spearfish Canyon – two HUGE boulders broke loose from the canyon wall and came rumbling down, eventually splashing to a stop in Spearfish Creek below…



A Monumental Facelift

By Joe Rainboth • Apr 28th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

The memorial’s preservation team will clean portions of the mountain to bare rock by removing debris and vegetation. The team will also be removing loose hazardous rock…



The Green Explosion

By Joe Rainboth • Apr 26th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

It’s not always a crazy thunderstorm or gale-force wind that changes the way the Black Hills look. Sometimes it’s something softer, more subtle…



The End of the Rainbow

By Joe Rainboth • Apr 20th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

It’s rare to actually see the end of a rainbow at the point it touches the ground. Some folks like to think that there’s a pot of gold at the end of rainbows…



Snow-pack numbers lower than average

By Joe Rainboth • Apr 6th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

The Natural Resource Conservation Service (NCRS) takes monthly snow-pack measurements and recently released their April numbers…



Happy Birthday, Gutzon!

By Joe Rainboth • Mar 25th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

That’s right – Gutzon Borglum, the famous sculptor who chiseled Mount Rushmore, was born on this day back in 1867…



“Wooly” good attention for Mammoth Site

By Joe Rainboth • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

The Mammoth Site is an active fossil dig-in-progress. It is the site of the world’s largest collection of mammoth bones…



Where’s your favorite place?

By Joe Rainboth • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

Almost everybody who explores the Black Hills region ends up having something stick with them that becomes their “go to” place. A few days ago, over on the Black Hills Facebook Page, we asked folks a simple question…



Wilson & Ditch Digging the Black Hills

By Joe Rainboth • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Discoveries

The folks at The Jim Henson Company featured the Black Hills in this week’s episode of “Wilson & Ditch Digging America,” a new PBS children’s series…