Hello from SD

[bald1]

Originally Posted by sdmc530

Hello all...I found a place to play with the DW folks. I am from SD....where its never cold enough!

East or west river?

[sdmc530]

The big city of course...Sioux Falls. You must be either in Rapid or south. I spend some time every year in Spearfish for work, we work the sturgis rally and stay at the college..pretty nice there. live to camp out there by the faces too.....you are lucky to live in such a beautiful place!

[bald1]

I'm within eyeball distance of Mt. Rushmore And yeah the country here is beautiful

You mentioned working Sturgis during the Rally.... care to share more?

[sdmc530]

ITS INSANE....I feel insane for working it...I was at first surpised at what went on there but after oh a day it was just mundane. My favorite from last year we stopped two girls in a large truck. In the back of the truck they had about 4000 condoms, they called them party balloons...They were later arrested for what they were there to do from what I was told. This year was bad I was working the day the shooting in Rapid went on. I have a Friend who lives just down the road from the faces. He works for the Parks service as a ranger in the park. Lives between iron mt. road and the mt rushmore.

[bald1]

Ah... a LEO. Good deal. My stepdad is a retired Syracuse LEO and then retired Niagra Mohawk Nuclear Power Plant Security Supervisor. He's in his mid-80s now. Yeah that shooting was terrible for all concerned. My son knew one of the RC cops that died. The perp used a Dan Wesson 357 revolver. Killed 2 and wounded one with 5 shots fired.

As for Mt Rushmore, the former Director of Interpretation and Education was previously a LtCol (Nav Singh) I knew well at Ellsworth. He's in Hawaii now at Haleakalā National Park. Actually there's quite a few retired USAF guys working at Rushmore these days (e.g. Paul Hammett, CMSgt)