Green Ink Trips, Inc. (GIT) has 4 scheduled backpacking expeditions in 2002.
Custom adventures are also available.

Backpacking the BADLANDS of
North Dakota.

• Wild Flowers One: May 23-28. Five nights in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Prairie wildflowers, bison calves, and a full moon add to enchanted splendors of the mystical badlands. $595/person. .
  
  
• Wild Flowers Two: June 23-27. Four nights in the Badlands, with a 2nd set of blooms, another full moon, and the diverse bird and wildlife. $495/person
  
  
• Bull Buffalo: Aug. 20-25. Five moonlit nights in the Badlands. See the bison bulls in rut, one-ton of power in awesome and occasional displays. $595/person.

• Elk Dreams: Sept. 27-30. Four nights in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, $495/person. Backpacking and thrilling to wailing bugles of majestic bull elk in the rut.
  
  
• Custom Trips: 3-6 nights, May 12 - Oct. 15, $495/three nights/person + $100/additional night/person

Theodore Roosevelt National Park- a land of extremes: an arid landscape formed by water, a jumble of high plains and sheer clay cliffs, a harsh environment teeming with life. Theodore Roosevelt National Park - a wilderness distilled, an oasis. Profusions of wildflowers carpet thin soils in spring. Songbirds flock to cottonwood bottoms, golden eagles and turkey vultures ride thermals, while pelicans fish the muddy Little Missouri River.

The expansive cities of diminutive black-tailed prairie dogs fill valleys and pock tablelands where great shaggy bison range. Bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer and whitetail graze where bobcats and mountain lions prowl. The fleet white-tailed jackrabbit crouches while the omnipresent trickster, “Iktomie,” the coyote, pokes all about. The bones of antediluvian creatures and tropical dinosaurs erode from now dusty strata of ancient seas cut by deluge and downpour that wrap ‘round modern hikers.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park - The Badlands are magical. Study brings explanation and a measure of understanding, but the essential mystery of this most remarkable place remains eternal, the impression that stays buried deep in the bones of all who hike into its wilds.

Backpack “mako sica” (land bad) - in Lakota (Sioux). See the wilderness that made Teddy Roosevelt and launched the idea of national parks. The Little Mo’ valley is the landscape most like that which Lewis & Clark would have encountered on their journey of discovery through North Dakota. We love this place. Come along backpacking.

You need: clothes, pack, sleeping bag, and perhaps a tent. Green Ink Trips, Inc. (GIT, Inc.) provides food, cookware and cooking, maps, compass, etc., and insight into an enchanted land.

Contact: Mark Zimmerman at GIT ~ 22435 Jim Creek Lane
Deadwood, SD 57732 ~ 605.342.2552