Spearfish Canyon and Deadwood graves and beer

Sheer rock walls are the norm when driving through Spearfish Canyon. The stream cut the canyon through the rock about 5 million years ago.

One of the waterfalls, Roughlock Falls was the location for one of the last scenes in Dances with Wolves. 

Above the falls the stream is clear, shallow and swift moving.

Even the tallest of the falls at Roughlock is only about 20 feet tall, and easy to access with a 1 mile drive off of the highway.

Bridal veil falls is a tall and narrow column of water. There has been a lot of rain this year, so everything is green. This also means that the big horn sheep don't come down from the mountains to eat, so we didn't see any.

 In Deadwood, we went to Mt. Moriah Cemetary where Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane are buried. She died after he did and asked to be buried next to him. There are graves with dates from the early 1800's.

Just at the edge of Spearfish, we found a local brew pub, Crow Peak. The had a number of their beers on tap. Like many of the microbreweries, they provide their spent grain to farmers to feed their livestock. The brewer said one of the farmers who received the spent grains presented him with a chicken grown on his spent grain. He plans to use the spent grain in his compost pile and others use it to make bread. It's a good use of the by product of a delicious beer.