Road Trip 7. Eight more days in the Custer National Forest

We have spent the past 8 days in the Custer National Forest.  Here is our site, on top of a hill overlooking two valleys.  

We had about 6 cars/day that drove by.  All of the people we have seen are bow hunting Elk (relax, our assessment is that the Elk are very safe), and all (literally all, not a single exception), hunt by driving around in their pickups wearing camouflage (ha!  Doesn't work.  We can see them anyway).  They stop and chat, and are very friendly. 

 

We have taken several hikes:

See Vicky?

One hike was so particularly lovely that it deserves its own photos:

 Each day, after our hikes, we sit outside facing one valley or the other.  Vicky knits and reads, I drink red wine and wonder how my life got so good.  Here are views we have: