Today, despite the cold wind, I continued my quest to hike the entire boundary of Scotts Bluff National Monument. Today's hike started at the West Entrance.
From the entrance sign I walked west along Old Oregon Trail to the unfenced monument boundary at a fairly deep ravine. I would follow this ravine for much of the 1st half of the day's hike.
There were some pretty sheer cliff lines in the ravine.
A project to repair some damaged fence last summer meant the way through the ravine was fairly well opened up so that employees could get supplies and themselves to the damaged section of fence more easily.
There were two big sections of corrugated metal down in the ravine at one point. Maybe an old water tank that had been blown in by the wind?
I eventually exited the ravine and then followed a fence line due west. An interesting old truck was out in a neighbor's field.
Soon the boundary headed south towards South Bluff.
I opted not to climb the steep sketchy-looking slope up the bluff. Instead, I headed over to the old picnic area and then followed the old picnic back to the car. Along the way I found a nice deer antler.
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