686. Wanda’s Wanda-rings: Centennial Trail
Keystone, SD
Short stroll on the Centennial Trail from a trail crossing just few miles up the road from the “big presidents”!

This colorful stamp was carved by Maire’s Facet of CT to represent my backpacking the Centennial Trail year’s ago from Wind Cave to Bear Butte, SD. I didn’t realize until we got out there to the Black Hills again just how fragile the logbook had gotten from when it was planted in RI, so please don’t even try to sign it - it’s simply there to let you know you found the right thing!

Anyway, to find this camo pill bottle with stamp, take route 244 to the Big Pine Trailhead on the north side of the highway just west of Horse Thief Lake. Pick up trail 89 behind brown gate to the right of the kiosk in the parking lot. Just under 100 steps downhill from the gate is a tilted flat rock on the right just past a 1-foot lichen-covered stump across from a 6 or so -footlong ledge on the left. Now just look carefully under the northeast (downhill) side of that tilted rock to find the box under the 8-inch flat lichen-covered stone!

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