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THE MASSIVE SCULPTURES OFHC
WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, ROOSEVELT
ANDHC LINCOLN WATCH OVER C
HC
EASTERN SLOPE OF THE BLACK HILLS
CARVEDHC IN GRANITE AND ATTT
NEARLY 15 MILLION PEOPHCLE A C
BUT JUST AN HOUR SOUTH OF MOHT
RUSHMOORE IS ANOTHER NATIONL
TREASHCURE THAT ONLY GETS AC
HC
FRACTION OF MOUNT RUSHMOORES
VISITOHCRS EACH YEAR; WIND E
NATIONAL PARK.HCHCHCHC
MOST OF THE HALF MILLION
HC
PEOPLE THAT VISIT WIND CAE
EVERY YEHCAR COME TO SEE THC
ITS NAMESAKE CAVE SYSTEM AND
C
RARE SUBTERRANEAN FORMATION IS
CALLED BHCOXWORK BUT AS WERE ABC
TO FIND OUT WIND CAVE NATIONAL
HC
PARK ABOVE THE SURFACE ISN
AMAZING PLACE TO HCEXPLORE.C
HC
WE MET UP WITH TWO MOTION
GUEST HIKEHCRS RICK AND
ROBIN RAFT IN PENNSYLVANIC
AT THEHC PARK
VISITOR CENTER.HCHCHCC
PARENTS HCOF QUADRUPLETS Y
DIDN'T GET A WHOLE LOT OF TIMEHO
TRAVEL AFTER THE KIDS WERC
HC
BORN WHICH MADE THE WAY TY
FOUND OUT THEYHC WERE COMG
WITH US SO SPECIAL.HCC
KRISTIN, HCOUR DAUGHTER DECD
IT WOULD BE FUN IF WE WEHCRN
THE GUEST AS A GUEST ON MOTIOC
HC
SO SHE WROTE IN WITHOUTR
KNOWLEDGE ANDHC ASKED IF WE CD
BE ON THE SHOW AND THEN THEY ALC
GOT TOGETHCHER AT A SURPRE
BIRTHDAY PARTY BUT THE SURPRHE
WAS ON US AS EVERYBODY GATHERC
AND THEY INFORMED US THAT WC
HAD WON A TRIP TO SOUTH DAKOTA
TO BHCE WITH MOTION.HC
GET YOUR BODIES IN MOTIONC
REMEMBER THE SHOW MOTION?HC
I KNOW.HCHC
YOU WITH ME SO FAR?HC
WEHC NEVER THOUGHT OURSELS
AS SIGNING UP OURSELVHCESO
BE A GUEST HIKER ON MOTIOC
IT JHCUST DIDN'T CROSS OUR MIS
BUT THE FACT THAT HCOUR DAUGHR
HCISTIN TOOK IT UPON HERSELF ANC
KIND OF SURPRISE US WHERE SE
WROTE IHCNTO MOTION AND GOT US ,
THIS TRIP WAS FANTASTHCIC.HC
THE LAKOTA SIOUX NATIVE
HC
AMERICANS THAT USED TO
LIVE FREE IN HCTHE BLACKHC
HIHCLLS SPOKE OF A HOLE
IN THE EARTH THAT
HCBLEW AIR LONG AGO.HC
WIND CAVE GOT IT'S NAMEHC
FROM THAT ORIGINAL HOLE IN
THE GROUND HCTHAT BLOWS AIR
OUT OFHC THE CAVE WHEN
ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS
HC
ARE JUST RIGHT.HCHC
IN HC1881 TWO BROTHERS WEREE
FIRST SETTLERS THCO DISCOVER E
CAVE SYSTEM AND AFTER FAILEC
ATTEMPTS TO MINE FOR GOLD,
WIND CAVE WAS TURNED INTOA
TOURIST ATTHCRACTION.C
TODAY THE CAVHCE IS MANAGED
BY THE NATIONAL PARK
HCSERVICE AND WE COULDN'TC
HC
WAIT TO GET OUR FIRST LOOK
INTO THE DARKHC WORLD BELC
GOING INTO THE CAVE FOR
THE FIRST TIME YOU DIDN'T
THINK YOU WERE GHCOING TOC
JUMPING INTO ANHC ELEVATOR.C
HC
I'M KIND OF GLAD WE DID
BECAUSE I'D BE REALLHCY TIREDY
THE TIME WE GOT DOWN TO TC
BOTTOM BUT YOU'RE GOING DOWN TWO
C
HUNDRED FEET WHICH IS KIND F
COOL IHCN ITSELF.HCHC
WHEN THE ELEVATORS DOORS
HC
OPEN IT REALLY SANK IN;
WE WERE TWO HUNDRED FHCEETHC
BELOW THE SURFACE AND ABOUT TO
HC
ENTER A BIZARRE NETWORK OF
TUNNELS AND PAHCSSAGE WAYS.C
ASHC WE WALKED INTO THE
FIRST LARGE ROOM OF THE
HC
CAVE WE QUICKLY LEARNEDHC
WHY HCTHIS IS SUCH AN
INCREDIBLE PLACE.HCHCHCC
ALRIGHT THEHCRE'S NOT A LOTF
LIGHT IN HERE BUT IF YOU'RE HN
HERE THE ACCENTS ARE PRETTYC
THE FACT THAT WE TOOK AN
ELEVATOR AND WE'RE 200 FET
UNDERGROUNHCD WHERE WE STARC
I MEAN TALK ABOUT
EXPLORATION,HC IF YOU KNEW
WHAT YOU WERE DOING THISHCHC
WOULD PROBABLY BEHC A
FUN PLACE TO DO IT.HCC
WALKG INTO THE ROOM FOR
HC
HE FIRST TIME YOU LOOK P
AND IT WAS JUSHCT, YOU'D C
ALLITHCLET POPCORN AS MIKE
CALLED IT JUST HANGING DOC
FROM THE WATER VAPORS ANDHCC
IHCT WAS JUST, IT WAS JUST
MAGICAL, IT WAS SOMETHINHCG I NR
THOUGHT I'D EVER SAY.HCC
HC
THIS IS SOME OF THE CAVE
POPCORN RIGHT HEHCRE AND
THAT IS STILL FORMING.HCHC
HC
IN REALLY WET CAVES
THERE'D BE A LOT OF WATERHC
DRIPPING IN; IT'D BE STILC
ACTIVE AND RELATIVELY DRY CAVS
LIKE WIND CAVE THERE'S STILL
STUFF HAHCPPENING.HCHCHC
THIS IS STILL; THERE'S
HCSTILL WATER COMING IN
BUT IT'S JUST OOZING OUTHCHC
THROUGHHC THE TINY LITTLE
PORES IN THE ROCK ITSELF.HCC
HC
THAT PROCESS IS
GOING ON.HCHC
WIND CAVE IS BEST
HC
KNN FOR THIS.HCHC
HC
A CALITE FOATI
CALLED BOXWORK;HC A DELICE
LATIC WORK THAT COVERSHCHC
MUCH OF THE WALLS HCAND
CEILING OF WIND CAVE.HCC
95% OF THE WORLDS
DISCOVEHCRED BOXWORK IS
FOUND IN THIS CAVE SYSTEMC
HC
UNLIKE STALACTITES THAT HG
FROM OTHER CAVE HCCEILINGS, BOXK
IS FORMED WHEN MOISTUREHCC
SEAPS THHCROUGH SMALL CRAS
IN THE LIMESTONE INSTEAD C
HCDRIPS FROM THE CAVE TOPS
WITH MORE WATER RUN OFF.HCHC
THESE FORMATIONS HAVE
TAHCKEN MILLIONS OF YEARS
TO FORM, MAKING INSIDE OFHCC
WIND CAVE
HC
EXTREMELY FRAGILE.HCHC
OUR RANGEHCR MAKES SURE WE
STAYED ON THE WELL LIT
HCMARKED TRAILS TO SAFELY
ENJOHCY THIS SO
REAL SETTING.HC
AS HCYOU WALK THROUGH THE
CAVE AND YOU'RE GOING
HC
THROUGH ALL THESE LITTLE
DIFHCFERENT PASSAGE WAYS D
CATACOMBS OR WHATEVER HCGG
AND I AND ROBIN WERE KINDHCC
OF LOOKING AHCROUND AND YOU
COULD JUST SEE YOU HAD
HC
LIMITED LIGHTING SO YOU CC
ONLY SEE SO FAR BHCUT I MN
SOME OF THESE OPENINGS AND
HC
CREVICES, I MEAN THEY WD
GO THIRTY,HC FORTY FEET ANDU
DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THEY ENDHD
OR IF THEY DID END.HCC
WIND CAVE IS ACTUALLY
HC
A GIANT MAZE OF CAVES,
CRACK AND COORIDORSHC.HC
NOT JUST ONEHC LARGE CAVE.
HC
EACH YEAR ABOUT FOUR MORE
MILES OF THIS CAVHCE SYSTEM
ARE EXPLORED WITH A TOTALHCC
UNDER GROUND MIHCLEAGE
OF THE CAVE DISCOVERED SO
FAR AT ONE HCHUNDRED THIRTYC
SEVEN MILES; MAKINGHC
IT THE FIFTH LARGEST
CAVE IN THE WHCORLD.HC
HC
ANYTIME YOU HEAR OF A
PLACE THAT'HCS NOT EXPLORC
HC
IT'S ONLY A FRACTION OF
EXPLORE ITHC JUST MAKES YOU
WANT TO, THERE'S VERY FEWHCC
PLHCACES THAT ARE
LEFT ON THE PLANET.HC
HCIT'S ALMOST A TEASEECAUSE IT
DOES KIND OFHC PROMPTHAT
EXPLORATION URGE DOESN'T ITC
AHCND HERE WE ARE IN
PATHWAYS AND JUST TELLING
US WHERE TO GO BUT I GETHCHC
IT IT'S A DELICATE
HC
ENVIRONMENT.HC
IT KIND OF MAKES MHCE
WANT TO TAKE UP CAVING.HCC
IT'S PRETTY COOL.HC
LIKEHC YOU SAID ALL THIS IS
LIT UP BUT IF YOU'RE OUT
HC
THERE CAVING NOTHING'S LIC
YOU'RE JUST
CRAWLING AROUHCND.
YH IT'D BEHC AHOL
IFFERENT VIEW BAUSEO YU
HCMIGHT FEEL CONFINED WHEN,C
IF YOU COULD SEE MORHCE.
HC
YOU'D REALIZE THIS
HUGE ROOM'S OPHCEN UP.
ONCE WEHC SETTLED IN TO THE
DELICATE BEAUTY AND
HCEXPANSIVENESS OF THE ROOMS ANC
PASSAGE HCWAYS HERE WE GOT Y
THISS THMAIN REASONHC PEOPLE
COME TO WIND CAVE NATIONAL PAC
BUT WE ALSHCO KNEW THERE WAS ABT
THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND ACHCREF
ROLLING HILLS, MIXED GRASSLANC
AND TOP NOTCH WILDLIHCFE TOE
BACK ON TOP; WHICH IS WHERE WE'E
C
HEADED NEXT.HCHC
HCWE EXPLORED THE WIDE OPEN
BEAUTY OF WIND CAVEHC
NATIONAL PARK ON THE ROADHCC
LESS TRAVELED THEN A HIKE
HC
TO REMOTE CORNER OF THE
PARK PAYS HCOFF BIG AS WEC
GET CLOSE TOHC A VERY
SHY HEARD OF ELK
WHEN MOTION HCRETURNS.HC