Kawishiway wrote on May 28^th, 2009 at 10:47am:

Note to selves... Many that seek solitude in the Dakotas seek out the Badlands in both ND and SD, as the Black Hills in SD has become more and more of a tourist trap...type attraction... unless you know the secret spots in the Hills.  Badlands...Highly recomended.  Bring your boots. ;)

Glad you enjoyed the report. It seems to me that far less people come to ND's badlands, most preferring the sharper, more extreme topography of the badlands in SD. Friends of mine back home in MSP often say, "I didn't know ND had badlands." Keeps out the riff-raff  :D



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Saw the Fargo flood first hand as well.  Could have called it the Dakota Flood.  I could see clearly how this area was a massive lake once, just a few short weeks ago now. k

I attached a picture I took a few weeks ago, looking down into the Red River Valley from the Pembina Escarpment, an area of N-S trending topographic relief which marks the Valley's western edge. The picture was taken along a road leading to Mountain, ND, perhaps the most ironic town name in the eastern part of the state. This escarpment wasn't the edge of Lake Agassiz, but it was cut out by the pre-Agassiz 'Red' river as it meandered through the valley below. But it's still easy to see that you're looking down into a vast lake bed / flood plain.

It's also not hard to imagine why so much land gets covered when the Red River rises in the spring. North of Grand Forks just over a month ago, the river was seven miles wide. As of right now, it's back to its normal width of less than 100 yards.

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