Gold in Them Thar Hills

IN PROGRESS!

Of course, getting there is half the fun. The other half is buying cheap souvenirs in the gift shop and eating an overpriced hamburger in the crowded cafeteria. But there is the breathing of fresh, pine-scented air, and the walking beneath granite spires, and the marveling at the engineering ingenuity that carved out the four Caucasian faces in these hills that red faces have revered for generations.

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