hey guys it's Shaun here and we have Hannah and Elliot and Nolan and we are gonna
hike St. Elmos Peak in South Dakota. St. Elmo peak is about halfway between
Harney Peak (Black Elk Peak) and Crazy Horse so it's elevation, it says here, 6,411
feet. St. Elmos Peak is the 26th highest peak in South
Dakota it's a little breezy today and it's a
little muddy, so this is the entrance and here we go!
a little bit of snow on the trail but so far this is just the start of it. I think
it gets pretty steep up here as we go. It's a nice day today,
it's March 31st. It's about 50 degrees. Helen had to stay home and do some work
so I decided to take the kids out and there's no other people out here so
we're doing some social distancing but we're also getting some exercise.
start gaining elevation pretty quickly here. It gets pretty steep in a
hurry here. It's actually kind of hard climbing right now because of all the
deep snow I think the trail would be better in the summertime but right now
it's kind of hard to follow/
this is challenging with all this ice on the trail just starting to melt off and
as it melts it turns into ice.
you can't walk where everyone else has cause you'll slide down the hill
11:27 in the morning right now. This will be a fun one coming back down too!
It's really deep isn't it? well we're at point four miles now and we lost our way a
little bit there but we started following a logging trail and that's not
where the trail goes so just you're probably almost halfway to the top and
the views are starting to open up behind us pretty well so it's pretty cool. You
can see the highway down there and that road goes up to needles highway this
goes up to Hill City
All right update, we are about point eight miles up from the bottom and Hannah
tired and didn't feel like hiking anymore so we left her down there. I put
a waypoint so we can find her on the way back down but we're gonna keep plugging
away see if we can get up to the top. Nolan went ahead of us so he's probably
well on his way. I've been dragging Elliot up a lot of this. It's very strenuous
especially with all the snow. Still plugging away here. Pretty much holding
Elliot's hand here just dragging him up the hill.
The top's right up there
Hill citie is down there somewhere
keep going
Tired? Okay we're almost to the top now
there's Nolan
Harney Peak is up there.
We're about ready to come back down. Did you have a good time Elliot? you ready to
head back down? All right, we had a good time we're gonna head back down so hope
you guys enjoyed it!
Don't go too fast Elliot!