Spectacular Rock Pottery for Giants
While resting on a rock on a hike in Boulder, Colorado, I met a fellow hiker visiting from Australia. He asked me if I had been to Vedauwoo. I asked, "VEDA what?" He told me he had just visited Vedauwoo motorcycle camping! He described the Medicine Bowe-Routt National Park (an area between Laramie and Cheyenne) as an "alien-like Stonehenge" of Wyoming. Having never even heard of it, I set out to Google the destination. And, the next day I planned by trip across the border into Wyoming. In a nutshell, Vedauwoo is a collection of magnificently colored rock pottery for giants (a little "Gulliver's Travels" reference). Perfectly stacked and balanced rocks that create peaceful natural sculptures, random rock formations growing out of the ground, and sudden and random hail, wind or thunder storms all make Vedauwoo a unique hiker and climber destination. Native Americans (Arapaho) named this area Vedauwoo (pronounced Vee-duh-voo) which means "Land...