Of course, Lupe’s life of adventures all started here, close to home, in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota!
On January 15, 2012, the day after she turned 13 months old, Lupe and SPHP went on her very first Black Hills, SD Expedition. Lupe got to take Deerfield Trail No. 40 along Rapid Creek west of Silver City all the way to its confluence with Slate Creek. Although it was rather cold and snowy out, Lupe loved the freedom and excitement of exploring the Black Hills!
Black Hills, SD & WY Expeditions have been a regular, and eagerly anticipated, feature of Lupe’s life ever since. Lupe has climbed a great many of the Black Hill’s named peaks at least once, but with over 1.2 million acres in the Black Hills National Forest, there are always new places to explore.
Although the Black Hills encompass a few very famous places like Mt. Rushmore, most of Lupe’s Black Hills Expeditions are to remote parts of the hills almost never seen by tourists, and seldom visited even by local inhabitants. Hidden somewhere out there, there’s gold in them thar Black Hills, and a lucky, high-spirited American Dingo, too!
Black Hills, SD & WY Expeditions Adventure Index
No. 336 – Peak 6927, Peak 7031 & Peak 6987 (11-10-24)
No. 335 – Hitting the Trails with Cousin Dixie (10-4-24 to 10-6-24)
No. 334 – Highpointers Club National Konvention (7-18-24 to 7-20-24)
No. 333 – Little Devils Tower with Mark Anderson (6-8-24)
No. 332 – Black Elk Peak with Dave Covill, Max & Finn (5-29-24)
No. 331 – Waterfalls, Lakes & Trails with Cousin Dixie (5-24-24 to 5-26-24)
No. 330 – Centennial Trail No. 89 – The Ponderosa Hike (5-24-24)
No. 329 – Redbird Canyon to Dumbuk Ridge (5-11-24)
No. 328 – Ruby Gulch to Horse Creek with Poppy, HV & LV (4-25-24)
No. 327 – Pillar Peak, Peak 5452 & Dome Mountain (4-4-24)
No. 326 – Dome Mountain & Another Peak 5452 Fiasco (3-15-24)
No. 325 – Kruger Peak, Daisy Peak & Northeast Cicero Peak (2-29-24)
No. 324 – Line Camp Peak & Horse Trap Mountain (1-31-24)
No. 323 – Peak 6057: A Black Elk Wilderness Adventure (1-21-24)
No. 322 – Peak 6070 & New Year’s Eve Peak (1-1-24)
No. 321 – Lupe’s 13th Birthday & Crooks Tower (12-14-23)
No. 320 – Centennial Trail No. 89 – Dalton Lake to Peak 5173 (11-19-23)
No. 319 – Old Bald Peak (11-18-23)
No. 318 – Slate Creek (10-8-23)
No. 317 – Minnesota Ridge to Greens Gulch (10-7-23)
No. 316 – Peak 5321 (10-6-23)
– New Cousin Dixie! (6-29-23 to 7-2-23)
No. 315 – Centennial Trail No. 89 – French Creek to Highland Creek (5-20-23)
No. 314 – Hat Mountain with Poppy, HV & LV plus Nipple Butte, Flag Mountain & Peak 6962 (5-1-23)
No. 313 – Centennial Trail No. 89 S from Bear Butte Lake with Cousin Laddie (2-12-23)
No. 312 – Centennial Trail No. 89 N from Fort Meade with Cousin Laddie (2-11-23)
No. 311 – The Peak 5452 Fail & Pillar Peak (1-15-23)
No. 310 – Peak 5800 & New Year’s Eve Peak (12-31-22)
No. 309 – Thrall Mountain (12-11-22)
No. 308 – Peak 5240 & Tetro Rock (12-4-22)
No. 307 – Peak 6170 & Atlantic Hill (11-24-22)
No. 306 – Peak 6200, Peak 5960 & The Needles (11-2-22)
No. 305 – Cousin Laddie Pays a Visit (9-22-22 to 9-25-22)
No. 304 – Getting High in the Black Hills with Peakbagger Dennis Stewart (5-5-22)
No. 303 – Flag Mountain & Crows Nest Peak with Peakbagger Dennis Stewart (5-4-22)
No. 302 – Gimlet Pond (4-18-22)
No. 301 – Sylvan Lake & the Custer State Park Buffalo Hunt (4-16-22)
No. 300 – Peak 5266 & Peak 5360 (4-8-22)
No. 299 – Eleven Hour Gulch (3-28-22)
No. 298 – Peak 5212 & Peak 5213 (3-15-22)
No. 297 – Peak 4741 (3-2-22)
No. 296 – Peak 5440, Peak 5360 & Big Rock (2-19-22)
No. 295 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Badger Hole to French Creek & Beyond to Peak 5120 (2-7-22)
No. 294 – 1,000,000 Vertical Feet! (1-29-22)
No. 293 – Peak 4900 & Peak 5160 (1-28-22)
No. 292 – Peak 5100 Twice & Peak 5177 (1-23-22)
No. 291- Peak 4980, Peak 5163 & Peak 5321 (1-17-22)
No. 290 – Peak 5180, Peak 5960 & Peak 5760 (1-13-22)
No. 289 – The Lists of John Mini-Blitz (1-11-22)
No. 288 – New Years Eve Peak (1-3-22)
No. 287 – Peak 5500 , Peak 5460, the Meade County High Point & Peak 5420 (12-23-21)
No. 286 – Peak 4780 & Peak 4760 (12-2-21)
No. 285 – Calamity Peak & Peak 5874 (11-23-21)
No. 284 – Peak 4980 & Peak 5406 (11-15-21)
No. 283 – White Tail Peak (11-6-21)
No. 282 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Elk Creek to Peak 5261 (10-30-21)
No. 281 – Centennial Trail No. 89: The Ponderosa Hike (10-29-21)
No. 280 – Peak 6361 & Peak 5802 (10-17-21)
No. 279 – Devils Bathtub, Spearfish Falls, Roughlock Falls & Roubaix Lake (10-12-21)
No. 278 – Deerfield Trail No. 40: Silver City to Dougherty Gulch (4-28-21)
No. 277 – Rapid Creek, Peak 5520 & the Gold Mountain Mine with Cousin Dusty (4-23-21 & 4-24-21)
No. 276 – Making It or Faking It on Peak 6360? (4-18-21)
No. 275 – Mount Wheaton, Peak 4516, Peak 5171 & Peak 5741 (4-14-21)
No. 274 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Elk Creek to Alkali Creek (4-10-21)
No. 273 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Dalton Lake to Elk Creek (4-5-21)
No. 272 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Iron Creek Horse Camp to Badger Hole (4-1-21)
No. 271 – Lowden Mountain, Peak 6040 & Union Hill (3-28-21)
No. 270 – Peak 5520 & Five Points (3-20-21)
No. 269 – Peak 5581 & Scruton Mountain (3-12-21)
No. 268 – Flume Trail No. 50: Coon Hollow to Boulder Hill & Loop B (3-7-21)
No. 267 – Flume Trail No. 50: Boulder Hill to Sheridan Lake (3-3-21)
No. 266 – Peak 5500 & Wildcat Peak (2-22-21)
No. 265 – Custer Peak & Peak 6600 (2-3-21)
No. 264 – Peak 5017 & Peak 5316 (2-2-21)
No. 263 – Erskine Cave, Ice Cave & Stagebarn Ridge (1-29-21)
No. 262 – Peak 5400 & Pillar Peak (1-13-21)
No. 261 – Peak 5800 & New Year’s Eve Peak (12-31-20)
No. 260 – Moonshine Gulch, Peak 6205 & Minnesota Ridge (12-8-20)
No. 259 – Zimmer Ridge & Peak 6600 (11-28-20)
No. 258 – Spearfish Peak & Little Crow Peak (11-19-20)
No. 257 – Inyan Kara (11-7-20)
No. 256 – Deerfield Trail No. 40: Daugherty Trailhead to Signal Knob & Deerfield Lake (10-30-20)
No. 255 – Missouri Buttes & A Visit With Dave Covill, Lead Director of the Highpointers Foundation (5-27-20)
– 2020 – The Year of Perfect Vision!
– To Samelius Peak with Michael Zimny of South Dakota Public Broadcasting! (3-11-20)
No. 254 – Black Fox to Crooks Tower (11-24-19)
No. 253 – Poverty Gulch, Castle Peak & Peak 6244 (11-19-19)
No. 252 – Peak 5865, Peak 6216 & Peak 6135 (11-9-19)
No. 251 – Bridal Veil Falls, the Devil’s Bathtub trail, Spearfish Falls & Roughlock Falls (10-17-19)
No. 250 – Peak 5647, Peak 5743 & Peak 5880 (5-4-19)
No. 249 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Big Pine to Iron Creek Horse Camp (4-20-19)
No. 248 – Crow Peak (4-6-19)
No. 247 – Peak 5696 (2-2-19)
No. 246 – Peak 5136 (1-27-19)
No. 245 – Peak 5438 (1-15-19)
No. 244 – False North Point (1-5-19)
No. 243 – Peak 5917 & Pistol Point with Cousins Dusty, Mark & Uncle Joe (12-22-18)
No. 242 – New Year’s Eve Peak, Peak 6070 & Peak 6043 (12-17-18)
No. 241 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Alkali Creek to Fort Meade (12-10-18)
No. 240 – Lake Loop Trail No. 40L: Deerfield Reservoir & Hat Mountain (11-14-18)
No. 239 – Silver Peak & Nugget Gulch Peak (11-4-18)
No. 238 – Centennial Trail No. 89: South Boxelder Creek to Dalton Lake (10-28-18)
No. 237 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Pilot Knob to South Boxelder Creek (10-18-18)
No. 236 – Deerfield Trail No. 40: Deer Creek to Silver City & Peak 5707 (10-6-18)
No. 235 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Deer Creek to Pilot Knob (9-29-18)
No. 234 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Rapid Creek to Deer Creek (9-22-18)
No. 232 – Flag Mountain & the Dragon Caves with Cousin Dusty & Uncle Joe (5-26-18)
No. 231 – Hat Mountain with Cousin Dusty & Uncle Joe (5-25-18)
No. 230 – Ward Draw & 2K Peak with Rizzo, Buddy & Josh Hilpert (5-19-18)
No. 229 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Brush Creek to Rapid Creek & Perrin Mountain (5-14-18)
No. 228 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Spring Creek to Samelius (5-6-18)
No. 227 – Centennial Trail No. 89: Spring Creek to Twin Sisters & Brush Creek (4-29-18)
No. 226 – Gap Lode Peak & Black Elk Peak (4-22-18)
No. 225 – Roundtop Hill (4-9-18)
No. 224 – Peak 6167 & Old Bald Peak (3-24-18)
No. 223 – Peak 4340, Peak 4433 & Peak 4000 (1-30-18)
No. 222 – Norris Peak (1-18-18)
No. 221 – Peak 5800 & New Year’s Eve Peak (1-7-18)
No. 220 – Storm Hill, Elk Mountain & Northeast Cicero Peak (12-18-17)
No. 219 – Twin Sisters Range High Point & Elk Knob (12-10-17)
No. 218 – Mt. Coolidge (12-3-17)
No. 217 – Peak 4400, Peak 4240 & Lookout Peak (11-26-17)
No. 216 – Boulder Hill & Tunnel Ridge (11-18-17 & 11-19-17)
No. 215 – Peak 3950, Oyster Mountain & Sly Hill (11-12-17)
No. 214 – The Search for Elk Mountain with Rizzo, Buddy & Josh Hilpert (11-4-17)
No. 213 – Crow’s Nest Peak (10-29-17)
No. 212 – South Castle Rock, Castle Rock, Nipple Butte & Flag Mountain (10-22-17)
No. 211 – Bear Mountain & Odakota Mountain (10-15-17)
No. 210 – Hat Mountain & Green Mountain (10-7-17)
No. 209 – White Tail Peak (10-1-17)
– Badlands National Park with Australian Adventurer Luke Hall (9-27-17)
No. 208 – Little Devil’s Tower & Black Elk Peak with Australian Adventurer Luke Hall (9-26-17)
No. 207 – Peak 6720, Medicine Mountain, Peak 6680 & Copper Mountain (6-3-17)
No. 206 – Sylvan Hill & Peak 6733 (5-27-17)
No. 205 – Balm of Gilead Gulch & Cement Ridge (5-20-17)
No. 204 – Clayton Pond, Crooks Tower & Peak 6820 (5-13-17)
No. 203 – Gimlet Creek to Minnesota Ridge (5-6-17)
No. 202 – Ford Mountain, Storm Hill & Ingersoll Peak (4-29-17)
No. 201 – Summits on the Air! (Silver Mountain, 4-22-17)
No. 200 – Horsethief Lake Trail No. 14 & Beyond to Peak 6735 in the Black Elk Wilderness (4-15-17)
No. 199 – Twin Sisters Twice & Castle Rock (4-12-17)
No. 198 – Peak 4160 & Unkpapa Peak (4-2-17)
No. 196 – Devil’s Slide, Cascade Falls & Tepee Mountain (3-19-17)
No. 195 – Peak 4340 & Flagpole Mountain (3-12-17)
No. 194 – Summit Peak & Bishop Mountain (3-5-17)
No. 193 – Seven Sister’s Range High Point, Peak 4371 & Peak 4310 (2-27-17)
No. 192 – Maverick Mountain, Battle Mountain & Friendshuh Mountain (2-20-17)
No. 191 – Peak 5360, Peak 5240 & Buckhorn Mountain (2-13-17)
No. 190 – Peak 5846, Peak 5880 & Peak 5840 (2-6-17)
No. 189 – Peak 5778 & Peak 5834 (1-30-17)
No. 188 – Peak 6181, Peak 6040 & Custer Mountain (1-18-17)
No. 187 – New Year’s Eve Peak (12-30-16)
No. 186 – Iron Mountain & Peak 5440 (12-23-16)
No. 185 – Sweetwater Mountain (12-4-16)
No. 184 – Iron Mountain & Peak 5688 (11-28-16)
No. 183 – Iron Mountain & Woodpecker Ridge (11-20-16)
No. 182 – Mount Pisgah & Laird Peak (11-13-16)
No. 181 – Missouri Buttes (11-6-16)
No. 180 – Warren Peaks, Bull Hill, Ragged Top & Lone Tree Hill (10-30-16)
No. 179 – Warren Peaks, Black Hills, Sherrard Hill & Cook Lake (10-23-16)
No. 178 – Vision Peak, Bald Mountain & Stoney Point (10-16-16)
No. 177 – Duling Hill & Iron Mountain (10-10-16)
No. 176 – Elkhorn Divide, Fish Mountain & Hooker Peak (10-9-16)
No. 175 – Citadel Rock, Beartown Hill & The Needles (9-28-16)
No. 174(b) – Summits on the Air! (Boulder Hill, 7-4-16)
No. 174(a) – Summits on the Air! (Custer Peak, 7-2-16)
No. 173 – Strawberry Ridge, Sugarloaf Mountain & Woodville Hills (5-21-16)
No. 172 – Elk Mountain, Ragged Top Mountain & Twin Peaks (5-14-16)
No. 171 – Little Crow Peak & Spearfish Peak (5-7-16)
No. 170 – Kirk Hill, Tetro Rock & Custer Peak (5-1-16)
No. 169 – Boulder Hill (4-22-16 & 4-23-16)
No. 168 – Wildcat Peak, Fanny Peak & Summit Ridge (4-21-16)
No. 167 – Surveyor’s Hill, Red Butte, Yellow Butte & the Elk Mountain Benchmark (4-20-16)
No. 166 – Sullivan Peak, Red Point & Twin Buttes (4-10-16)
No. 165 – Matias Peak & Cicero Peak (4-4-16)
No. 164 – Clark, Humbolt, Copper & Odakota Mountains (3-28-16)
No. 163 – Deerfield Trail No. 40: Silver City to Canyon City (3-23-16)
No. 162 – Deadman Mountain, Red Hill & Granite Peak (3-20-16)
No. 161 – Mount Theodore Roosevelt, Polo Peak, Green Mountain & Elkhorn Peak (3-12-16)
No. 160 – Crook Mountain & Whitewood Peak (3-5-16)
No. 159 – Bluelead Mountain & Calumet Ridge (2-29-16)
No. 158 – Echo Peak, Tepee Peak & Eagle Mountain (2-28-16)
No. 157 – Toiling Toward Tomaha (2-18-16)
No. 156 – Commissary Point & Buzzard’s Roost (2-11-16)
No. 155 – White Mansion, Flagstaff Mountain & Veteran Peak (2-6-16)
No. 154 – Crystal Mountain (1-28-16)
No. 153 – Steamboat Rock, Pugg’s Keep & Green Top (1-23-16)
No. 152 – Perrin Mountain, Merritt Peak & Pilot Knob (1-13-16)
No. 151 – Buck Mountain (1-5-16)
No. 150 – New Year’s Eve Peak & Peak 5800 (1-1-16)
No. 149 – Centennial Trail No. 89, Fort Meade to Bear Butte Lake (12-19-15)
No. 148 – Smith Mountain, Flag Mountain & Campaign Hill (12-5-15)
No. 147 – Silver Peak & Old Bald Peak (11-24-15)
No. 146(b) – Custer Peak (11-23-15)
No. 146(a) – Roughlock Falls (11-22-15)
No. 145 – Sundance Mountain, Warren Peaks, Sheep Nose Mountain & Devil’s Tower (11-15-15)
No. 144 – Five Points (10-31-15)
No. 143 – Bald Hills, Peak 6888 & Crows Nest Peak (10-24-15)
No. 142 – Castle Peak (10-17-15)
No. 141 – Old Baldy Mountain & Cement Ridge (10-11-15)
No. 140 – Bittersweet Creek, the Northwest Passage & Dingo of the Mists (10-5-15)
No. 139 – Crows Nest Peak (9-27-15)
No. 138 – White Tail Peak (9-19-15)
No. 137 – Harney Peak & Little Devil’s Tower (9-7-15)
No. 136 – Cascade Falls (7-12-15)
No. 135 – Peak 6820 & Crooks Tower (6-27-15)
No. 134 – Copper, Odakota, Green & Hat Mountains Plus the Dragon Caves (6-20-15)
No. 133 – South Castle Rock, Castle Rock, Nipple Butte, Flag Mountain & Peak 6962 (6-13-15)
No. 132 – Copper, Odakota & Bear Mountains (6-7-15)
No. 131 – Harney Peak or Hin Han Kaga (Making of Owls) & Little Devil’s Tower (5-30-15)
No. 130 – Centennial Trail No. 89, Samelius to Big Pine & Horsethief Lake (5-23-15)
No. 129 – Centennial Trail No. 89 near Ft. Meade (5-22-15)
No. 128 – Lithograph Canyon Hillside, East Hell Canyon & Signal Hill (4-25-15)
No. 127 – Hat Mountain, Anchor Hill & Custer Peak (4-19-15)
No. 126 – Battle Mountain, Parker Peak & Pilger Mountain (4-11-15)
No. 125 – Atlantic Hill, Signal Hill & Elk Benchmark (4-4-15)
No. 124 – Mt. Rushmore & Gap Lode Peak (3-28-15)
No. 123 – White Rocks, Mt. Roosevelt & Crow Peak (3-21-15)
No. 122 – Bear Den Mountain, Anchor Hill, Dome Mountain & Pillar Peak (3-14-15)
No. 121 – Custer Mountain, Kruger Peak, Daisy Peak & Northeast Cicero Peak (3-7-15)
No. 120 – Pillar Peak (2-20-15)
No. 119 – Meade County High Point & Custer Peak (2-13-15)
No. 118 – Redfern Mountain & Signal Knob (2-7-15)
No. 116 – Green Mountain, Northern Rainbows & High Point 5219 (1-24-15)
No. 115 – Campaign Hill, Peak 6048 & Flag Mountain (1-18-15)
No. 114 – Thrall Mountain (1-10-15)
No. 113 – The Search for Thrall Mountain (1-1-15)
No. 112 – New Year’s Eve Peak (12-31-14)
No. 110 – Samelius & Hardesty Peaks, Mount Warner (12-20-14)
No. 109 – Cicero, Northeast Cicero, Daisy & Kruger Peaks (12-13-14)
No. 108 – Calumet Ridge & Silver Mountain (12-11-14)
No. 107 – Lowden Mountain & Union Hill (12-6-14)
No. 106 – Smith & Flag Mountains (11-28-14)
No. 105 – Silver Mountain (11-22-14)
No. 104 – Inyan Kara Mountain (11-9-14)
No. 103 – Peak 6733 (11-6-14)
No. 102 – St. Elmo Peak & the search for Peak 6733 (10-29-14)
No. 101 – Zimmer Ridge & Peak 6600 (10-23-14)
No. 100 – Round Mountain, Peak 6740, Limestone Hill & Elliot Ridge (10-16-14)
No. 99 – Peak 6820 & Crooks Tower (10-8-14)
No. 98 – The Northern Hills Day of Deterioration (10-2-14)
No. 97 – Harney Peak & Little Devil’s Tower (9-25-14)
No. 95 – Peak 6720 & Medicine Mountain (9-13-14)
No. 92 – Peak 6735 (6-9-14)
No. 91 – Peak 6888, Bald Hills, the Weston County, Wyoming High Point, Peak 6645 & Laird Peak (6-1-14)
No. 90 – South Castle Rock, Castle Rock, Nipple Butte, Flag Mountain & Peak 6962 (5-24-14)
No. 89 – Sylvan Hill, the Custer County High Point (5-17-14)
No. 88 – Little Devil’s Tower & Harney Peak (5-17-14)
No. 86 – Crow’s Nest Peak (5-3-14)
No. 81 – Peak 6070 & Nugget Gulch Peak (3-30-14)
No. 80 – New Year’s Eve Peak (3-23-14)
No. 79 – The Snow Trek (3-16-14)
No. 78 – The Experimental Forest & Minnesota Ridge (3-9-14)
No. 76 – To the Bald Hills & Back (2-2-14)
No. 74 – Willow Creek to Sylvan Lake (1-19-14)
No. 71 – Coulsen Hughes Draw (11-30-13)
No. 70 – East of Gillette Prairie (11-24-13)
No. 67 – Big Sid Joins the Pack! (10-26-13)
No. 62 – Cement Ridge (6-8-13)
No. 61 – Roughlock Falls & Old Baldy Mountain (6-2-13)
No. 41 – New Year’s Eve Peak (12-31-12)
No. 3 – Lupe’s Search for Old Bald Peak (1-29-12)
Black Hills, SD & WY Expeditions – The Early Years: 2014 & 2015
Black Hills, SD & WY Expeditions – The Early Years: 2013
Black Hills, SD & WY Expeditions – The Early Years: 2012
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