CRAZY WOMAN CANYON AND THE OUTLAW CAVES

Yeah, yeah, yeah so I can already hear you.  Yes, the good folks in Buffalo, WY named a canyon after me.   We couldn’t miss this so we took the drive out and around Buffalo and down through my canyon.  The road through the canyon was really narrow, rough and rocky, and very windy.  But we got some spectacular views and tried to take a few pictures of Crazy Woman Creek as it wound its way through the rocks.  The truck was in 4WD the entire way through.

Big boulders have rolled down from the mountain and the stream had to find its way through them.  Just ahead on the road, the huge bolder was almost touching the cliff rock on the other side of the road.  It was a good thing Maxie wasn’t  any higher or wider.

Just beyond the narrow part of the canyon.

All of a sudden we were on flat pasture land.   This is the mouth of the canyon where we just came out.

Mouth of the canyon is there somewhere.

We consider this drive through my canyon to be one of the highlights of our trip so far.  We almost went back to do it again.

 

OUTLAW CAVES

Another day, we took the drive out to see the Outlaw Caves.  These caves were where Butch Cassidy and many other outlaws hid out from time to time.  We drove and drove for miles over roads that made Crazy Woman Canyon look smooth.  Here are some of the pictures we took on our way out to see the caves.

This area is called “The Red Wall”.  This was a nice smooth county maintained gravel road, before we turned off to find the caves.

The caves are out here somewhere.

We were able to turn around here (the first place we found in miles) because we had driven many miles further than the map said we should and hadn’t found the road to the caves. (Maybe the sign had been stolen, except there were no other roads to turn off on.)  Bob didn’t want to abuse Maxie so we turned around and inched our way back over the areas of terrible road to find our way back to the nice smooth gravel road we had been on before we took this turn off.  We'd even talked to some people coming the other way and they said the caves were “just up the road a little ways”.  Well, miles later we turned around without ever finding the caves.  It just wasn’t worth it to us.  So, the Outlaw Caves are still out there somewhere, never to be seen by us.

I guess if Butch Cassidy and his cronies wanted to live in a cave way out in this desolate place all those years ago, they deserved not to get caught.  But I think jail would have been preferable to roughing it way out here, except for maybe the part about being hung, but then again…….