The Badlands National Park in south-west South Dakota is an eerie location of startlingly beautiful desolation. From the ragged ridges and saw-toothed spires, towards the sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles and also the wind-ravaged moonscape of the Sage Creek Wilderness Region, Badlands National Park is an unsettling however awe-inspiring encounter. The Sioux Indians named this land ‘mako sica’ or ‘land bad’ and early French-Canadian trappers labelled it ‘les mauvaises terres a traverser’ or

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